Improve Your Tennis Skills with Augmented Training

CueMate training system is designed to harness your brain and body's natural learning mechanisms to help you improve your skills faster and more efficiently.

Way Beyond Fitness Tracking

Augmented Training and Learning

Human skills cannot be programmed but have to be learned. Therefore, the only way to get better is to practice. Therefore, the central question is the quality of your practice. CueMate is the first ecosystem designed to enhance your natural movement learning using data.

What does it mean to augment learning?

Technology can help learning skills at different levels. CueMate focuses on four primary aspects:

CueMate Ecosystem

These primary capabilities are realized with CueMate's ecosystem, which has three primary components:

Details about CueMate Ecosystem Details about Background

CueMate's Movement Model

The foundation to effective data-driven training is using the right movement models. CueMate models your movement performance using a so-called hierarchical model which can be summarized as follows:

1. CueMate sensors captures your stroke motion

2. CueMate app estimates the stroke outcomes (spin and speed) and a variety of stroke attributes

3. CueMate processes the stroke data from your session and organizes them into classes

4. The classified strokes are then represented by a Stroke Map

Data That's Actionable: Skill Model

CueMate makes data actionable—every stroke contributes to knowledge about your skills and performance, which in turn support training interventions.

Diagnose and Elevate Your Skills

CueMate's skill model makes it possible to achieve a comprehensive and detailed analysis of your tennis skills. These insights can then be turned into training interventions that will help take your skills to the next level.

Repertoire Level

The Stroke Repertoire or Stroke Map— organizes your strokes into distinct classes and enables understanding and navigating your stroke vocabulary.

Benefits

  • Understand your core stroke classes and how they contribute to your current skill level and game style.

  • Identify the major gaps in your repertoire to help improve your versatility and competitiveness.

  • See how you use your repertoire in games to make sure you play on your strengths.

  • The review screen allows you to quickly see your strength and weaknesses across the stroke repertoire.

The review screen allows you to quickly see your strength and weaknesses across the stroke repertoire.

Class Level

The Stroke Classes reflect the main patterns you use to execute your strokes. They help get detailed insights into your technique and the stroke outcomes.

Benefits

For each Stroke Class:

  • Understand their performance including their range of outcomes.

  • Track variations and the highs and lows of your technique and performance under different play conditions.

  • Identify specific aspects of your strokes' technique that improve their outcomes.

The class report screen allows you to get into the details of each stroke class.

Population Level

To turn the movement models into meaningful insights, CueMate combines the data and models from our user population.

The data is then used to create references values to help interpret your data.

Benefits

Reference ranges for how the strokes are distributes across the repertoire for different skill levels.

  • What core strokes for a novice, beginner, intermediate.

  • Reference ranges for the stroke outcomes.

  • Best technique for different skill levels and styles of play.

Details about The Movement and Skill Model

Training with CueMate

Finally, CueMate's training features help you take your tennis skills to the next level.

The CueMate ecosystem provides features to monitor and train your skills at different levels.

The CueMate ecosystem provides features to monitor and train your skills at different levels.

  • Assessment and diagnostics tools to help identify gaps and deficiencies across the repertoire as well as the stroke classes.

  • The Rating System that captures your individual style and skill level.

  • Training goals to help you focus and track training on what's critical for your progress.

Assessment and Diagnostics

Before your Sessions

  • Setup your session with the right intentions and focus.

  • Review your training goals. Pin the goals that are most important for this session. Review the training tips so you know what.

During your sessions

  • Monitor your overall activity level, the duration and volume of stroke.

  • Know what strokes you are using most and their outcomes.

  • Use cueing to get feedback on pinned training goals.

After your sessions

  • Get a summary of important session trends.

  • Review the main trends across the stroke classes' outcomes.

  • Review your training goals.

Details about Skill Assessment and Training

Rating System

Learning is a process. To improve in sports like tennis you have to follow a path that is adapted to your skills, goals, and personal characteristics.

The rating system takes away guess work and is used to generate training goals automatically to help lead you on your path to becoming a better player.

Details about CueMate's Learning Model

Training Goals

CueMate generates individualized training goals based on the skill assessments and diagnostics.

Training goals help you help you focus and work on the aspects that are most critical for your current skill level.

The training goals can cover attributes across the entire model hierarchy, from the repertoire, down to specific features of your stroke technique.

Real-time Cueing: The “Cue” in CueMate is for Cueing.

Feedback about your performance is critical to efficient learning. CueMate provides real-time feedback on a range of features, including:

  • Validates your outcome levels such as the amount of spin or ball speed.

  • Validates specific movement features such as keeping your racket face closed during the back loop.

  • And a nearly unlimited set of movement features to reinforce/avoid.

Cueing will change the way you experience training. You can also use cueing during play or games to boost your confidence on key aspects of your technique.

Benefits of Using CueMate

CueMate creates a virtuous cycle to keep you on the path to success.

The CueMate ecosystem provides features to monitor and train your skills at different levels.

You can engage with CueMate at different times and different ways: completely hands off, or more intensive, such as when training with a ball machine, partner, or coach.

Using CueMate regularly helps you know your skills and make decisions about training:

  • You can benefit from CueMate at any level, learning stage, and whether you are playing for fun or training with a coach.

  • Train systematically with data-driven insights on your skills

  • Understand if your training is working and how quickly you are progressing.

  • Or simply monitor your activity and learn to become smarter about how you use your skills and maybe CueMate will help you become more deliberate about your training.

More

CueMate has even more features to discover that help you leverage data and the tennis community to stay motivated and achieve your goals.

CueMate Web App

Use the CueMate web app to gain in-depth knowledge about your skill rating, how you compare to other players, check the leaderboard, and status of your progress.

Social Features

The CueMate ecosystem also includes features to compare yourself with others or get inspired and motivated by seeing other players skill profiles.

Details about CueMate's Web App