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Flossy is well known to many on the British Dressage Forum as a teller of interesting stories and perhaps the odd joke or two. We have selected a few tales for your pleasure.
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Staying on top
Britten staying on top
The latest BEF search for the future star course was at a full swing , the arena was full of aspiring waiting to be discovered dressage riders, it was not a competition as such but every one was doing their best to out shine the others, those that were doing 15 one time changes had to be content with the fact the some one else will do 20 one time changes and under the judges noses, there was no end to the scope displayed by these future stars.
Watching all this was Ainsleyash the newly appointed national coach evaluator who with her eagle eyes noticed every detail happening in the arena and with commanding authority guided the candidates to stay on the tight and narrow pass of pure dressage .
“HAAY YOU on the stallion correct shoulder in is not on 5 tracks, put your fifth leg out of the way you cant expect the judges to stay un bias with that thing pendulating for all to see “ Her voice was heard from one end of the school to the other .
“Stop this trot ! you might fool the FEI untrained judges but I know this is not his natural passage it is a flattened trot been passagyed up “ she scorned a small lady on a large bay “I DONT CARE IF HIS PREVIOUS RIDER TRAINED HIM TO DO THAT, IT IS ( like sex ) not British”
At the far end of the arena was a young rider a bout 46 years old on a lovely young stallion full of the joys of spring, expressing himself in leaps and harmless bucks while the rider was texting to his trainer for advice “I must stop this coverting” he taxed “ the national coach tells me I am giving dressage the wrong image”
“And we dont want to see sitting trot either It is no different to RK it is abusive to the horse. According to the latest research commissioned by BD “ She shared her knowledge with the others “ We tested and proved that horses if given a choice between an arena where sitting trot is practiced or a green lush paddock will always choose the paddock”
With her open minded attitude Ainsleyash regularly makes use of our national resources and for every clinic our senior judges are invited, to offer feedback and information from the judges perspective, the judges situated around the arena far enough from each other not to hear what they each has to say , mobile phones confiscated and kept in the secretary's office, As the riders pass by, the judges will offer their opinion, some will offer both their opinion and other judges opinion while the most senior judge the FEI’s opinion,.
This innovative tactic give the riders the choice of diverse multi sides of training technics; head up ,head down, passagy trot to super trot or just correct trot the more you know the more confused you become ( is an old equestrian saying just invented ).
The point of the exercise is that in a real competition a rider will remember the in put of each judge and during a test will vary his performance according to the opinion of the nearest judge . To the arm chair critics and Danish journalists the situation is challenging ,when to take a photograph to prove their point? when the horse approaches the judge at C with the head up or the judge at M with the head down, is the horse shows passage at E or is it just a passagy trot at B.
Although Ainsleyash is open to modern ideas and use of new technology in enhancing training and schooling, The voice as an aid , the latest in the FEI innovations is most disliked by her , it is in total contradiction to years of poker face tradition she made her students maintain under any circumstance . With the new rule , permitting the use of voice, judges do not have to actually see what happens in the test, marks can be awarded simply according to the riders pre and post movement vocals “GO ! GO! You lazy son of a mare” obviously this horse lacks impulsion and activity the judge would comment “six”, an enthusiastic “ GOOOOOD BOY” will automatically be recorded as an eight With out the judge raising his eyes off the I PAD .
Watching all this is a worried BD high performance manager who turns to Ainsleyash and asks “ I don't think there is another Carl or Charlotte among this lot I am going to loose my bonus”,
Ainsleyash looks at him with a wicked smile on her face and says "If all fails and no Charlotte or Carl are found among this lot I got A secret weapon to insure British dressage superiority over the Germans is maintained , 50.000 copies of Hugh Goggins latest book , The passagy canter , will be published in Germany and made compulsory reading by the FN, “ (they will never untie the knots in Damian Hill’s legs)
The latest BEF search for the future star course was at a full swing , the arena was full of aspiring waiting to be discovered dressage riders, it was not a competition as such but every one was doing their best to out shine the others, those that were doing 15 one time changes had to be content with the fact the some one else will do 20 one time changes and under the judges noses, there was no end to the scope displayed by these future stars.
Watching all this was Ainsleyash the newly appointed national coach evaluator who with her eagle eyes noticed every detail happening in the arena and with commanding authority guided the candidates to stay on the tight and narrow pass of pure dressage .
“HAAY YOU on the stallion correct shoulder in is not on 5 tracks, put your fifth leg out of the way you cant expect the judges to stay un bias with that thing pendulating for all to see “ Her voice was heard from one end of the school to the other .
“Stop this trot ! you might fool the FEI untrained judges but I know this is not his natural passage it is a flattened trot been passagyed up “ she scorned a small lady on a large bay “I DONT CARE IF HIS PREVIOUS RIDER TRAINED HIM TO DO THAT, IT IS ( like sex ) not British”
At the far end of the arena was a young rider a bout 46 years old on a lovely young stallion full of the joys of spring, expressing himself in leaps and harmless bucks while the rider was texting to his trainer for advice “I must stop this coverting” he taxed “ the national coach tells me I am giving dressage the wrong image”
“And we dont want to see sitting trot either It is no different to RK it is abusive to the horse. According to the latest research commissioned by BD “ She shared her knowledge with the others “ We tested and proved that horses if given a choice between an arena where sitting trot is practiced or a green lush paddock will always choose the paddock”
With her open minded attitude Ainsleyash regularly makes use of our national resources and for every clinic our senior judges are invited, to offer feedback and information from the judges perspective, the judges situated around the arena far enough from each other not to hear what they each has to say , mobile phones confiscated and kept in the secretary's office, As the riders pass by, the judges will offer their opinion, some will offer both their opinion and other judges opinion while the most senior judge the FEI’s opinion,.
This innovative tactic give the riders the choice of diverse multi sides of training technics; head up ,head down, passagy trot to super trot or just correct trot the more you know the more confused you become ( is an old equestrian saying just invented ).
The point of the exercise is that in a real competition a rider will remember the in put of each judge and during a test will vary his performance according to the opinion of the nearest judge . To the arm chair critics and Danish journalists the situation is challenging ,when to take a photograph to prove their point? when the horse approaches the judge at C with the head up or the judge at M with the head down, is the horse shows passage at E or is it just a passagy trot at B.
Although Ainsleyash is open to modern ideas and use of new technology in enhancing training and schooling, The voice as an aid , the latest in the FEI innovations is most disliked by her , it is in total contradiction to years of poker face tradition she made her students maintain under any circumstance . With the new rule , permitting the use of voice, judges do not have to actually see what happens in the test, marks can be awarded simply according to the riders pre and post movement vocals “GO ! GO! You lazy son of a mare” obviously this horse lacks impulsion and activity the judge would comment “six”, an enthusiastic “ GOOOOOD BOY” will automatically be recorded as an eight With out the judge raising his eyes off the I PAD .
Watching all this is a worried BD high performance manager who turns to Ainsleyash and asks “ I don't think there is another Carl or Charlotte among this lot I am going to loose my bonus”,
Ainsleyash looks at him with a wicked smile on her face and says "If all fails and no Charlotte or Carl are found among this lot I got A secret weapon to insure British dressage superiority over the Germans is maintained , 50.000 copies of Hugh Goggins latest book , The passagy canter , will be published in Germany and made compulsory reading by the FN, “ (they will never untie the knots in Damian Hill’s legs)
