What Does A 6 Canter Pirouette Look Like? Developing Your Eye For Dressage
What Does A 6 Canter Pirouette Look Like? Developing Your Eye For Dressage
Riding dressage is hard enough, learning to understand what you are watching and be able to assess the judging and the quality of the ride is another skill set entirely. In the developing your eye series here at Dressage Hub we take rides and break them down into a single movement so you can look at each in isolation. With the online scoring being visible during the rides we are now better able to have almost immediate feedback as to what the judges are seeing during the test.
While this tool is a novel and exciting evolution for the sport of dressage it is important that we as riders take advantage of it and use it to learn what the judges see, and figure out if we agree or disagree based on the mistakes being made.
Here are the FEI guidelines for judging the canter pirouette:
CANTER PIROUETTE, technical execution acc. to Handbook p. 167 ff.:
Problem:
Horse changes, remaining disunited for some strides, trots out Below 3
Appropriate deduction
Horse changes into, during, out of pirouette Below 5
Horse breaks canter rhythm/falls momentarily into trot/walk Below 5
Loss of control, full pirouette in 3 ‐ 4 strides Below 5
Describing small circle/turning around the centre Below 5, or lower
depending on size.
Hindlegs clearly jumping together THROUGHOUT Below 5
Hindlegs clearly jumping together several times Below 6
Horse changes shortly before pirouette when being collected
or shortly afterwards but is immediately corrected (balance
problem)
Below 6, depending on quality of pirouette
Horse clearly flexed/bent in wrong direction Below 6, depending on
how wrong flexion is.
Important in addition to the description in the HB: Too late or early execution of a pirouette has to be penalized by an appropriate deduction of points, depending on where the pirouette was shown. Deductions also if the pirouette is not shown on the required line.
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