FightFlow Reels: Record Your Solo Training and Actually See What You're Doing

You finish a shadow round, take a breath, and you're sure that cross felt cleaner than it did last week.

Then you watch the clip.

Your lead hand drops while the cross goes out. Your weight stays on your front foot through the recovery. Your jab flares the elbow wide enough to telegraph it from across the room.

You can't feel any of that mid-round. Reels records your training so you can watch it back.

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What Reels Is

Reels runs underneath every training mode you already use.

Tap the recording chip in the Training Center header to arm the camera, then start a session. FightFlow records from the start of the session until it ends, up to the clip-length limit. In Rounds Mode each round gets its own clip. Afterwards, open saved clips in Progress → Reels.

Use the camera preview before training to check your framing. Recording starts and stops automatically, so you train without thinking about the camera, then sit down afterwards and watch.

If you've ever filmed yourself on your phone propped against a water bottle and forgotten to stop the recording until you got home, you've already done the harder version of this. Reels starts and stops the recording for you.

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Four Things It's For

"Self-review" is vague. In practice, it means four jobs.

1. Catching the Habits You Can't Feel

A coach catches what you can't see from inside your own head. The camera gives you that outside view, minus the advice.

You feel one thing and do another. The video shows the one you did.

Three habits worth checking in your first review:

• A lead hand that drops while you throw the cross. It's easy to miss from the inside, because your attention is on the punching hand.
• A weight shift that telegraphs your hook. Maybe a half-step, maybe just a lean. You think you're throwing it cold. You're not.
• A reset that's too slow. After a combination, there's a half-beat where you stand still admiring your own work. That half-beat is when you get countered in sparring.

Reading about these habits won't tell you which ones you have. Your footage will.

2. Form Drift Under Fatigue

Round one feels great. Round five is where it starts to come apart.

In Rounds Mode each round gets its own clip. Watch the first one, then the last one from the same session. Check where your hands are and how your stance holds up. Whatever changed between the two is what fatigue does to you, and it's what an opponent will find late in a fight.

It's tempting to review your best round. Review the tired one; that's where the work is.

3. The Coach Across the Country

If you train mostly solo but check in with a coach (online, occasionally, or by text), Reels gives you something to send.

A clip beats a paragraph of "I think my jab isn't coming back fast enough." Your coach sees the movement you mean instead of guessing from a description. Share the clip directly from the Reels detail screen. It exports as a normal MP4. Drop it into Messages, WhatsApp, email, wherever your coach actually reads things.

The same goes for a teammate you spar with once a month, a mentor who's seen you fight, or a friend who's also training and knows what you're working on.

No remote coach? Reddit is the imperfect substitute. The form-check subreddits (r/amateurboxing, r/MuayThai, r/martialarts) will give you feedback on a clip. Quality varies. Keep the feedback that comes with a reason, and skip the bare verdicts. "Your jab is bad" is useless. "Your jab drops on the way back; bring it back along the same line it went out, elbow in" is worth trying, even from a stranger. Ignore the rest. And don't post the same clip to three subs hoping for consensus. You'll get three different fixes and no way to choose between them.

4. The Long-Form Training Tape

This one takes patience. Keep one clip a week for six months. Same combo, same mode, same camera angle. (Keeping more than five clips needs Unlimited.)

Week to week, the changes are too small to notice. Compare the oldest clip with the newest instead.

Keep the setup identical, so the only thing that changes between clips is you.

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How Many Clips You Can Keep

Free users can keep up to 5 saved clips at a time. To save a new one, delete an old one. Unlimited removes the cap.

Either way, review a session's clips the same day, keep the ones worth comparing later, and delete the rest.

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Camera Setup That Doesn't Suck

You can over-engineer this. Don't.

Start with this setup: phone propped against something, 45° angle from the front of where you'll be training, about chest-high. Two to three steps back. Both rear and front cameras work; pick the one that gives you the better angle.

For footwork specifically: side angle, slightly lower. Knees and feet should be in frame the whole round.

For hand position: head-on, chest-high, closer than you think.

For shadow boxing in a small space: corner shot, phone in landscape, wider angle.

Don't film from above. You lose the lower body: weight shift, stance, recovery footwork. Your feet are the part you can't see while you train, so keep them in frame.

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What to Look For

Decide what you're watching for before you press play.

Five things to check:

1. The recovery. Skip the punch itself and watch the half-second after it. Where do your hands go? How fast do your feet get back under you? That half-second is when you're open.
2. The non-punching hand. When you throw the cross, where is your lead hand? When you jab, where is your rear hand? Both belong at your chin.
3. Stance after a kick. Land a teep or a roundhouse, then pause the video as the kicking leg comes down. Are you back in stance and balanced, or still falling into position? The second after the kick is when you get countered.
4. Three combinations in a row. Find any twenty-second stretch with three full combinations. Are they the same three combinations, or are you varying them? When you call your own combos, it's easy to fall back on one favorite. The camera shows it.
5. The neutral position. Watch yourself when you're not throwing anything. Is your guard up? Are you on the balls of your feet? Every exchange starts from that position.

You don't need to look for all five at once. Pick one per review session. Notice it. Train it specifically next time.

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Watch the Clips

Reels only helps if you watch.

Arm the camera, train, never open Reels, and all you've done is drain the battery. FightFlow records the clips; it doesn't review them for you.

Give it five minutes after each session.

Try it tomorrow: arm the chip, train one normal session, and watch it before you put the phone down. Pick one thing to fix and make it the focus of your next session.