Training Goals
CueMate is designed to turn your data into training interventions that will help you elevate your game.
The gold standard in training is so-called deliberate training. CueMate is the only tool that is designed to enable deliberate training using movement data.
Deliberate Training
Many players tend to gravitate toward their comfort zone. In tennis that means you will mostly practice what you already know. This is natural because your overall success rate is higher for those strokes you can already perform well. However, the result of this practice is that your skills plateau.
This is where deliberate training and CueMate comes in. To improve you need to be deliberate about focusing on your weaknesses and then systematic about working on improving these weaknesses.
Challenges of Effective Training
But how do you go about this?
First, it is difficult to improve something that users can’t objectively measure or assess. Users cannot improve at once or set arbitrary goals. Training involves breaking up the process into stages. Each stage has to have goals adapted to the user's level and specific issues.
CueMate Training Journey
- Training is a journey and you want to shortest path to your desired skills.
- CueMate’s skill model enables a comprehensive and detailed picture of your skills.
- The CueMate learning model acts like a GPS for your training, making it possible to guide your training in an incremental fashion, from your current level, putting you in a favorable position for the long-term progress in skills.
- Training goals make it possible to get objective, measurable assessment of your progress, so you can look back at your sessions and see where you get stuck and get encouraged by the progress.
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Training Tools
If you have reviewed the detailed background, you will understand that training goals should:
- Focus on the. This aspect is primarily determined by your stroke outcomes across the repertoire.
- Create intermediate goals to help you progress efficiently. This aspect is primarily a function of building up stroke technique in a way that is consistent with your learning stage.
Training Goal Determination
Automatic Training Goals
CueMate computes a range of training goals automatically using the learning model that combines the user data. These features are expected to grow with the user base and the analysis of the user’s performance. The foundation of the automatic training goals is the rating system.
See Rating-based Training for more details.
Manual Training Goals
For players who are motivated to understand the details of the metrics and their interpretation, CueMate provides tools to generate and manage training goals manually.
The training goals for complex skills like tennis are best in the context of the hierarchical movement and skill model.
A hierarchical model can be understood both from the top-down, i.e., how requirements about the stroke repertoire set requirements for the strokes, and bottom up, i.e., how the performance of the strokes combine to create the player’s overall skills.
Training Aids
Training Tips
In addition to the training goals, instructions to help you best attain them.
CueMate has a database of training tips that get matched with the training goals. In addition, it includes so-called “cue words” to remind you of features to focus on when training a particular goal. These can be enabled with feedback cueing.
Training Videos
Most people are visual and learn best witch demonstrations. CueMate is building a library of videos to complement the training tips and help you achieve your training goals.
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