New competition tier proposed for dressage
A novel tier of dressage contest has been proposed to stimulate amount the gap betwixt Grand Prix together with Small Tour.
The introduction of a Medium Tour was proposed by FEI Dressage Committee Chair Frank Kemperman on the in conclusion solar daytime of the FEI Sports Forum inward Switzerland yesterday.
Other topics discussed at the dressage circular tabular array were the futurity of dressage next the huge success of the London 2012 Olympics, the introduction of an FEI Nations Cup Dressage series, together with the review of the judging format of the Freestyle to Music tests.
Panellists for the Dressage Round Table were Frank Kemperman (NED); Dressage Committee members Thomas Bauer (GER), David Hunt (GBR), Kyra Kyrklund (FIN); together with Hans-Christian Matthiesen (DEN); together with Trond Asmyr, FEI Director, Dressage together with Para-Dressage.
Of the medium tour proposal, Kemperman said at that topographic point were currently 660 Grand Prix horses on the FEI World Dressage Rankings. “Grand Prix is a hard flat which is accessible to relatively few combinations that compete solely half-dozen to 8 times a year. It would locomote a huge create goodness to organisers to become far possible for the top riders to compete to a greater extent than oft together with to opened upwards the sport to novel faces,” he said.
A novel Dressage examination betwixt Intermediate I together with II volition locomote developed for role at international events to render an easier transition for immature horses together with immature riders, let for a higher release of starters at shows. The novel flat volition besides create goodness for Equus caballus welfare.
Delegates welcomed this proposal, especially equally a Medium Tour would assist grow the sport inward countries exterior Europe. “This is a rattling skilful evolution together with nosotros encompass it,” Jim Wolf, USEF Executive Director of Sport Programmes said. “A Medium Tour would locomote rattling of import for us,” Colombian Dressage passenger Constanza Jaramillo added.
A like construction exists on the national flat inward several countries, together with their sense volition locomote rattling useful inward the farther evolution of this project.
FEI Dressage together with Para-Dressage Director Trond Asmyr opened the session, celebrating the fact that the sport is currently enjoying the greatest flat of popularity inward its history. It is vital to secure its farther evolution inward damage of spectator numbers together with appeal to immature riders, lawsuit organisers, novel fans, the media together with especially television, he commented. In social club to address these challenges successfully, the sport must locomote good structured.
The introduction of the FEI Nations Cup Dressage is besides an of import chemical element for the futurity of the sport. Starting inward May this year, a examination flavor volition locomote conducted to evaluate the series’ potential.
“Up till straight off nosotros solely had Nations Cups at Championships,” International Dressage Officials Club (IDOC) example Wojtek Markowski (POL) said. “Introducing a dedicated serial is a skilful footstep forward. It volition let riders of diverse levels to compete with each other together with volition assist immature riders to larn from beingness on a team.”
Trond Asmyr spoke nearly the proposed changes to the Freestyle judging format. The Freestyle, which is hugely pop with spectators together with TV viewers together with has been instrumental inward the electrical flow popularity of the sport, contains the most subjective judging elements of all Dressage tests. Continuous efforts should hence locomote made to growth its objectivity. The ideas set forwards to accomplish this include changing the artistic marks, farther defining the grade of difficulty together with improving the way the selected music is judged.
“Today nosotros received rattling skilful feedback from the participants which is reassuring equally it agency we’re on the correct track,” Asmyr commented. “Our aim is to brand the judging equally objective equally possible, only it must non locomote together with so complex that it delays the results. We volition reckon all these components only volition non comprise on the existing cardinal elements.”
A examination lawsuit where the novel ideas volition locomote evaluated volition locomote organised this year. The innovation is to innovate the novel judging methods inward 2014.
Current Nations Cup dressage calendar:
CDIO 3* Vidauban (FRA), 17-20 May
CDIO 5* Rotterdam (NED), 19-23 June
CDIO 5* Aachen (GER), 25-30 June
CDIO 3* Hickstead (GBR), 1-4 August (subject to confirmation).
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