AI Sambo Coach
Film a sambo round on your phone. DARCE reads the throws and takedowns, the scramble to the leg lock and the pins, then gives you a breakdown and the one fix to take back to your coach.
From a sambo round to your next fix.
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Film
Record a sambo round on your phone, standing and on the mat, and pick BJJ when you upload. One fixed angle is enough: no rig, no markers, no sensors.
Clip 01 · 02:00 · single angle
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Analyze
DARCE reads throws such as seoi nage and uchi mata, the trips and takedowns, the leg lock attacks that follow and the pins.
16 exchanges · 3 leg locks read
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Breakdown
See what came off and what got stopped: the throw you landed but did not follow to the legs, the leg lock entry that gave up position.
Weakest: slow to the leg after the throw
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Drill
It hands you the one fix to drill next, like going straight to the ankle lock off the throw, shown at the moment the chance was there.
Drill next: throw to ankle lock
Built for a martial art that throws, then attacks the legs.
- Technique library
- 22 wrestling techniques, the outside trip among them, inside a library of 90+ that also maps the kneebar and the straight ankle lock step by step.
- Weakness detection
- Find the moment the throw stalls before an opponent counters it.
- Personalized drills
- Fixes from your own rounds, standing and on the mat, one at a time, each at the moment it happened.
- Progress tracking
- Every round you upload moves your Fighter IQ, shown against your own average, so you can see your game climb from the feet to the legs.
- Standing and ground
- Throws, takedowns, leg locks and pins read through one analysis, in the same round.
- In your pocket
- Your breakdown goes where you go: on your phone, between sessions.
Explore the technique library
Throws and takedowns are in the wrestling section and leg locks in the BJJ section, each mapped step by step.
Key facts about DARCE
- DARCE analyses a filmed round of live sparring, read position by position across the whole round, in BJJ, wrestling, striking and MMA, and the same four analyses read sparring in Muay Thai, kickboxing, judo, sambo, no-gi grappling and other martial arts.
- The analysis is not limited to a technique list: it names what happens in the round from a vocabulary of 260+ positions, moves and finishes across the four martial arts, while the 90+ technique library is a separate step-by-step reference you can read free on darce.app.
- A DARCE breakdown has four parts: a round summary of who controlled the round and where it turned, a position timeline mapped to the second, the key moments that decided it, and up to 3 fixes, each tied to the moment it happened with one line on why.
- A breakdown is usually ready one to two minutes after the upload finishes.
- Film on your phone from a single fixed angle, in landscape, at about chest height for stand-up and higher, angled down, for rolling; no rig, sensors or markers are needed, and a round of up to 2 minutes can be analysed.
- DARCE is a mobile app for iOS and Android with no web or desktop version; it is in private beta, onboarding the first 50 founding testers from the waitlist at darce.app/join, and is not yet publicly downloadable.
- DARCE is free for founding testers during the beta, and pricing after the beta has not been announced.
Questions before you start.
Can an AI really coach sambo?
It will not replace your coach or your time on the mat. What it gives you is the film review most sambo athletes never get: a clear read on your rounds, from the throw to the leg lock, and one fix to work on next.
Does DARCE score sambo matches?
No. It is not a judge. It reads the throws, takedowns, leg locks and pins, not the score. It keeps no score and gives no decision.
What footage do I need?
Just your phone. A single fixed angle of a live round is enough. No rig, no sensors, no markers.
What does it cost?
Founding testers get free access through the beta. Pricing comes later, and early testers will have a say in it.