Dressage Rude Dressage Judge

Not the same situation as the OP's, but I recently did 2 tests in front of a judge who I felt was rude because she didn't nod in response to my salute. It made me wonder what I had done wrong/ why she thought so little of my performance she didn't feel she needed to acknowledge me. As I was leaving the arena the second time she asked me if I'd walked at A. I had, as I'd got mixed up between the two tests, then realised my mistake and trotted again. She said she hadn't rung the bell because by the time she realised it was wrong I'd corrected myself, so I'd got away with it. We had a good laugh about it and she was actually very pleasant. So it is possible to be oversensitive in these stressful situations.
 
I think we all get an odd comment now and again. Years ago at a RC Area team dressage competition my little horse got the comment "not enough flexion in the hocks" for walk on the long rein. We normally scored well for this movement as she would stride out well. I had always thought it was length of stride/over tracking " like a horse walking in for it's dinner" that they looked for not the lift in the hocks!
I have seen a few competitors to be rather upset by a judge's comments which have later turned out to be rather to the point. However, it is just one comment for one test, discuss with your trainers, I am sure it will all work out in the end.
 
BBird said:
Anyone can judge RC. You don’t need to have ridden, judged or even have seen a horse before. Some people do this for years without any training or testing.
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I have written for up to List 1 judges and at PC with someone who had no idea, who’s comments were rude, and I didn’t write them.
It was a very uncomfortable 2 hours and one I never repeated.
If they have not done some of the BD training they seem to have no filter and it’s just their opinion with no guidelines.
 
honetpot said:
I have written for up to List 1 judges and at PC with someone who had no idea, who’s comments were rude, and I didn’t write them.
It was a very uncomfortable 2 hours and one I never repeated.
If they have not done some of the BD training they seem to have no filter and it’s just their opinion with no guidelines.
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I've been in a similar situation myself as a writer, on a number of occasions. I have been quite aghast at some of the things they say about riders and horses - some of whom I have known. It does tend to put you off!
 
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I have hung up my clipboard and pens.

I was accused of damaging the interior of a List 2 judge’s car by accidentally scratching it with my clipboard. Though she waited 3 years to tell me :oops:. She then ranted on about how disgraceful it was that the team GB stalwart she was judging at a BE event had never bothered to learn to ride properly! She also dissed another 5* rider who had ‘shocking hands’, plus the local rider who had (very sympathetically) introduced my youngster to BE. This judge is nuts.

I’m out.
 
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