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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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Judges discrepancies
Juges discrepancies
Judges discrepancies, again and again this issue raises his ugly head.
After every competition, competitors , trainers and spectators are left bewildered how a dressage test can be perceived by one judge (knowledgeable) as the best test in the class while another judge (just as knowledgeable if not more) sees it as mediocre or less, and awards it marks much lower then the other judge. (or vice versa the more knowledgeable one awards the higher marks)
The problem is exasperated when a very domineering individual is so much out of tilt with the other judges that he alone has the influence over the final order of the class.
In order to combat these issues the FEI contracted the well known statistician David Strickland who methodically proved that by increasing the number of judges by two , the influence of one judge will be reduced to an acceptable level. This is now implemented and at championships seven judges sit around the arena not five as was in the past.
British Dressage as usual improves on every thing that the FEI does, and in the last judges sub committee meeting, the idea was debated and supported by a majority that in British Dressage Championships one hundred judges would be employed for each class .
One committee member that un usually to him woke up in the middle of the meeting and only got the tail end of the debate, he interrupted the chair woman and said “do we really need to go to that extent to insure that one judge will have no more influence then the other –cant we just train them better?”
“THAT NOT THE reason we proposing this” the chairman replied.
“So what the reason?” asked the committee member.
“THE REASON IS “ said the chair woman “ that with one hundred judges every competitor can have their own trainer sitting on the PANEL some even have both of them”
Judges discrepancies, again and again this issue raises his ugly head.
After every competition, competitors , trainers and spectators are left bewildered how a dressage test can be perceived by one judge (knowledgeable) as the best test in the class while another judge (just as knowledgeable if not more) sees it as mediocre or less, and awards it marks much lower then the other judge. (or vice versa the more knowledgeable one awards the higher marks)
The problem is exasperated when a very domineering individual is so much out of tilt with the other judges that he alone has the influence over the final order of the class.
In order to combat these issues the FEI contracted the well known statistician David Strickland who methodically proved that by increasing the number of judges by two , the influence of one judge will be reduced to an acceptable level. This is now implemented and at championships seven judges sit around the arena not five as was in the past.
British Dressage as usual improves on every thing that the FEI does, and in the last judges sub committee meeting, the idea was debated and supported by a majority that in British Dressage Championships one hundred judges would be employed for each class .
One committee member that un usually to him woke up in the middle of the meeting and only got the tail end of the debate, he interrupted the chair woman and said “do we really need to go to that extent to insure that one judge will have no more influence then the other –cant we just train them better?”
“THAT NOT THE reason we proposing this” the chairman replied.
“So what the reason?” asked the committee member.
“THE REASON IS “ said the chair woman “ that with one hundred judges every competitor can have their own trainer sitting on the PANEL some even have both of them”
