shortstuff99
Well-Known Member
That really bugs me about piaffe, the moves that still get a good mark are as far away from a piaffe as can be. I feel like you wouldn't be able to do that for any other move, but as dressage has become more and more warmblood focused the definitions have changed over the years to allow for their weaknesses in certain movements.Having been on the scoring team at an international comp, no they don’t inflate scores for names.
The best in the business just ride better, so they squeeze every mark they can from a test. The rubbish bits still score rubbish but they pull the score back up with accurate riding and making the good bits great ??.
It’s also worth reading the FEI marking system as it explains a lot about why certain moves score certain ways (the piaffe being one of them that can score highly even if it doesn’t look classical).