Dressage Freestyle to Music Thread

silu said:
While delighted for the GB team I'm somewhat disappointed in the individual result. I believed dressage was about accuracy and perfection, so I find it disappointing that the winning test had an obvious mistake whereas the 2nd placed didn't as far as I could see.Perhaps London judging was a little favourable. Good for the medal table tho.
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Mabe if the dutch rider had rode better shed have won ..... Sour grapes possibly
 
silu said:
While delighted for the GB team I'm somewhat disappointed in the individual result. I believed dressage was about accuracy and perfection, so I find it disappointing that the winning test had an obvious mistake whereas the 2nd placed didn't as far as I could see.Perhaps London judging was a little favourable. Good for the medal table tho.
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How can you say that, the horse that came in Silver position was probably marked down for tension and BTV whereas Charlotte's horse was far looser and natural in his frame and so got more marks I imagine for the majority of the movements despite fluffing the ending.
 
Silu, I suggest you rewatch the second placed test again and take into account the way of going and consider the horse's welfare.
 
silu said:
While delighted for the GB team I'm somewhat disappointed in the individual result. I believed dressage was about accuracy and perfection, so I find it disappointing that the winning test had an obvious mistake whereas the 2nd placed didn't as far as I could see.Perhaps London judging was a little favourable. Good for the medal table tho.
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The second placed horse was BTV most of the time and had his mouth open. These are faults but not as obvious as getting steps wrong.
 
silu said:
While delighted for the GB team I'm somewhat disappointed in the individual result. I believed dressage was about accuracy and perfection, so I find it disappointing that the winning test had an obvious mistake whereas the 2nd placed didn't as far as I could see.Perhaps London judging was a little favourable. Good for the medal table tho.
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maybe the fact they were so bloody good at everything else meant that if they hadn't had the blip, they'd have got even higher and still beaten the tense, over bent-I'msogladtogetmynosebandloosened-unfortunate animal that came 2nd...
 
Feathered said:
Er no Judy... We do not have to feel sorry for Adeline!

We do feel sorry for her horse mind you!
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Yes, and I think we need to start asking some very serious questions of FEI. But how does one begin? FEI is a political fortress - how do we get in?

[this interrogation is not directed at you, Feathered ;-) ]
 
not had time to read replys but does anyone else think carl has been robbed??

Parzival was very tight in the neck, fussy in his mouth and very behind the vertical - his extended trots almost looked stilted? Fair enough her artistic impression as her music was stunning and all exactly to time but as far as correctness of the horses way of going? hmmmmmm.....
 
silu said:
While delighted for the GB team I'm somewhat disappointed in the individual result. I believed dressage was about accuracy and perfection, so I find it disappointing that the winning test had an obvious mistake whereas the 2nd placed didn't as far as I could see.Perhaps London judging was a little favourable. Good for the medal table tho.
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And there was me thinking that dressage was about WAY OF GOING as well as accuracy - relaxation, fluid paces, rhythm, lack of tension, accurate gaits, taking the weight back onto the hind hand etc. - and in those, Charlotte had Cornelissen well beaten.

Bright_Spark said:
Hmmmm, playing Heroes by David Bowie in the background.

Could that be any more appropriate? :D
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Was just appreciating that myself!
 
MT sounding pretty choked up again.

Obviously Olympic dressage medals are like buses - you wait for ages for one then three come along all at once!
 
I think Uthopia looked tired, so although very correct just lacked something. Carl gave him an amazing sympathetic ride I thought.

Makes me a little cross that Adelinde scored so highly when IMO the horse was behind the vertical with a broken neck throughout...
 
silu said:
... the winning test had an obvious mistake whereas the 2nd placed didn't as far as I could see.
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Nothing in the judging made much sense, but nothing less so than the 88% to Adelinde. Nothing was correct in that test.
One example, the piaffe which speakers are keen to gasp adoringly at. Yet in the piaffe the horse is supposed to lower its bum, stick its hind toes progressively further under and grow light in the front. It is the last step before the levade, after all.

Under Cornelissen, Parzival does the complete opposite on all accounts.

And she is just so violent. I would have placed her rock bottom with pleasure.
 
Good for Charlotte! The Dutch on the Dutch Forum Bokt.nl are going nuts, that Cornelissen should of won. Hahaha, keeps me entertained. The mistake happened in a "grey zone", so it doesn't really count. Charlotte deserves it, she doesn't pull and drag Valegro around like Cornelissen does it with Parzival.
 
silu said:
While delighted for the GB team I'm somewhat disappointed in the individual result. I believed dressage was about accuracy and perfection, so I find it disappointing that the winning test had an obvious mistake whereas the 2nd placed didn't as far as I could see.Perhaps London judging was a little favourable. Good for the medal table tho.
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Whilst I am surprised that a test with an obvious mistake won over some of the others, I am also incredibly surprised that such an obviously resistant test was placed second. I thought several riders, including GB's own Carl Hester, were harshly marked. I guess though without speaking to the judges we or seeing the scores per mark we will never know the reason.
 
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