BFF AcademyElite tier

Elite course

Quick start: Your first session 12m

1 How to record well Coming soon

At a glance

What a good recording gives you

How the app reads your position from video

Why your crank arm is the ruler, and how to find it

What changes once that number is right

Setting up your space

Placing the camera for a side view

Placing the camera for a front view

Lighting, clothing, and the things that confuse tracking

The recording sequence

Checking the recording before you trust it

Free Form recording, and when it is the right tool

2 Saddle height Coming soon

At a glance

Why saddle height comes first

Too low, too high, and the window in between

Read while you pedal, at maximum knee extension

Your knee angle and your foot angle, together

Your hip and ankle at the same moment

Reading the Height tab

The Classic Dashboard at maximum knee extension

Making the change

Your body is the final judge

3 Saddle fore/aft Coming soon

At a glance

Why fore/aft comes after height

Where your hips sit over the bottom bracket

Knee over pedal

Effective saddle angle

Your bike type moves the window

Reading the Fore/Aft tab

The Classic Dashboard at 3 o'clock

Making the change

4 Upper body position Coming soon

At a glance

Why upper body comes last

Upright, Relaxed, and Aggressive

Choosing the one that suits you

Reading the Position tab

Torso and shoulder on the Classic Dashboard

Reach and drop

Bars and stem, never the saddle

Making the change

5 Knee tracking Coming soon

At a glance

The movement the side view cannot show you

The front-view dashboard, and what it shows

What the app measures, and where it measures it

Reading your knee tracking result

What causes a knee to travel, and what does not

What to change, and in what order

When knee travel is not a fit problem

6 Measuring your bike Coming soon

At a glance

Why your angles alone do not describe your fit

What Bike Measurements captures

Taking the measurements accurately

What the numbers tell you that the video cannot

Keeping a record of a bike you might change

7 Testing a change first Coming soon

At a glance

The Video view, where the tools live

Trying a change on screen

Running your first what-if

Reading a simulated change against a real one

Using it to choose between two changes

Trace: the path a point takes through the whole stroke

Graph: watching a measurement change over time

Laser and Snapshot: checking alignment on a single frame

Picking the right tool for your question

What these tools can and cannot tell you

Reference

About this course Coming soon

At a glance

What you can measure and change with Elite

Where our numbers came from

What this course does not cover

How to work through these lessons

Getting around Elite 12m

At a glance The home screen The main menu Inside a session The session menu The recording screen The four view modes The video menu The Classic Dashboard Trying a change on screen Tools in the Video view The measuring tools What Pro adds

Troubleshooting Elite 12m

Search the course

Getting around Elite

about 12 minutes Reference Section 5 of 13

The session menu

Behind the menu icon on the session page, top to bottom:

#	Menu item	What it does
1	Help	Explains each part of this page.
2	Edit Info	The same form as tapping the session details.
3	Refresh	Syncs this session with iCloud now.
4	Export	Report makes a PDF of the whole session. Share makes a file another BFF user can open.
5	Import	Import Video adds a video from your Photos library as a record. Import File adds the records from a shared BFF file to this session.
6	Tools	The same four tools as on the home screen. See The measuring tools.
7	Recently Deleted	Records you've deleted from this session, kept for 7 days.
8	Delete	Deletes this session. For 7 days, you can get it back from Recently Deleted in the main menu.

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