June
15, 2005
| The Cutting Edge Series Kim Shanley Today, I'm very pleased to introduce an exciting new monthly feature on TennisOne, The Cutting Edge video series by Heath Waters. The Cutting Edge video series is the latest chapter in TennisOne's pioneering effort to use the hyperlinking, multi-media, interactive nature of the web for the world's premier tennis instruction site. For those who want to exercise the power of the web right now, you can skip my introduction and click on the photo below to see a sample of Heath's simultaneous video analysis of the game's greatest players.
Are you back? Using the quaint notion of words and photos on a page, I'll try to explain: The Cutting Edge is a video instruction series using no words – at least on the web page. You simply click on this Flash video (supported by 97% of all browsers), watch and listen, while Heath Waters shows you precisely the biomechanical principles and strokes of the game's top players—and how, step-by-step, you can begin to apply them to your own game. His first article in the series, “The Millenium Forehand, Preparation,” illustrates perfectly what a powerful new learning tool Heath has developed using his Pronalysis video technology and his ACE teaching system. Through analyzing the biggest forehands in tennis today, those of Roger Federer, Andy Roddick, Marat Safin, and Juan Carlos Ferrero, Heath separates the idiosyncrasies of their strokes from the common reference points that should become the focus of your visualization and muscle-memory application.
Heath Waters and the Evolution of the Cutting Edge Series We're proud of all our writers and editors, who are among the world's best tennis thinkers and coaches. But today let me take a few moments to tell you about Heath Waters and how The Cutting Edge series represents the combination of the industry's most sophisticated video analysis with Heath's extraordinary teaching and analytical powers.
Heath has been coaching full time on the professional men's and women's tennis tour for the past seven years. Heath currently coaches his wife Lindsay Lee-Waters, ranked in the top 100 in the world (former number 33), and 20 year old Ashley Harkleroad, formerly ranked 39 in the world. During her years on the tour, Lindsay has defeated 6 players ranked in the top 10 in the world. Before coaching on the tour, Heath owned and operated one of the largest tennis academies in the world, ACE Tennis Academy based in Atlanta, Georgia. ACE Academy encompassed 8 locations in four states across the southern U.S. Between 1996-2000 Heath's private students won over 20 national and international titles. In the last five years Heath's students have won over 10 professional tour titles on the ITF Professional Circuit. Heath is now excited to share with the world his secrets to his success by releasing his new tennis instructional website virtualtennisacademy.com. Extraordinary Value So enjoy Heath's first Cutting Edge piece, a 15 minute instructional video. You can always bookmark (“Add to Favorites” link at top of each page) each piece in your own My TennisOne account area. Over the coming year, you could accumulate 1-2 hours of interactive video instruction from one of the game's best coaches. Thank you again for your support of TennisOne, and I hope you enjoy and benefit from this exciting new series. As always, we would love to hear from you! Questions, comments, personal experiences all create helpful dialogue for everyone! Please click here to send us your email.
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