Education of judges and running adjustments of the "code of points/guide lines"
Frank Kemperman started the session as chairman of the JWGF, and pointed out the importance of education of the judges. "We need to see more progress here" Kemperman said. Hopefully there is a plan behind how to educate the judges better, to be able to look for exactly the same for every single exercise.
As Whitages later mentioned every rider must start with a 10 and then from there you can start judging, bit on the edge, but still a point in the difficult way to try to get the most correct score for the combination not starting with a 7.
Kemperman said the code of points need to be up-dated. "Do we need a new system for judging?Can we find a new and better system? The train has started, but it must be a better route for the dressage sport. We expect the judges judging the movements and the the history of the horse or the rider."
Bettina de Rham, director of dressage FEI, was telling about Reining and Vaulting with some interesting tools using for their judging.
Reining using drop scores (taking lowest and highest marks away).
From Vaulting they made a totally new judging system back in 2012, starting up with a university study looking at human brain, to access in 1 minute, the technicality of what the vaulters were doing on the horse, the artistic score link to it, and how the horse was moving, and work of the lunger, this in 1 minute was simply impossible.
The judging of the vaulting today is divided into 4 different positions: 2 judges does technical judging, 1 judge is doing artistic scoring and 1 judge is judging the horse = lots of positive out come.
H.C. Matthiesen said among other things. "Judges are open for changes. Maybe I need to be better to go out and explain, you know what I gave these marks, and this is why I gave them."
Important point of view from The Netherlands, Maarten van der Heijden. "It´s important that we ar not only seeing the our sport from the riders and judges perspective, we have to sell from a marketing perspertive our dressage sport. The sport need heros both athletes and horses, not only judges and press about differences."
H2R might be old fashioned
From H2R point of view there is no need to make a new judging system, it´s just necessary to make more "face lifts" to update the current guide lines for judging.
Unfortunately very few were following the streaming today (about 80 viewers).
Move timeline to 3:37:00 for starting the "dressage session".