Cees Slings: Is it Time for Freestyle 'Goal Line Technology'?

07/04/2013

Opinions

Our Guest Columnist of the week is Cees Slings, a Dutch director, composer, choreographer and freestyle producer, whose productions earned riders multiple Olympic gold medals and international kur victories. Besides designing freestyles, Slings and his team have developed a software program for...

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Mechelen Music Massacre

29/12/2012

Opinions

For quite some time I have been ruminating on the validity and applicability of the freestyle format in the modern dressage world. Over the years I have pointed out major discrepancies and cases of injustice taking place in the judging of the freestyle and I could only but slap the palm of my...

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FEI Abolishes Associate Membership

10/11/2012

FEI Dressage News

At the FEI General Assembly 2012 in Istanbul (TUR) today 252 delegates (104 National Federations – 80 in person and 24 by proxy) voted to abolish FEI Associate Membership. This abolition is not only a blow to the democratic process, but also substantially reduces the stakeholders clubs' ability...

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German Stallion Licensings, Commerce over Quality and Welfare?!

18/10/2012

Editorial

In the spring of 2012 the German Oldenburg society made a brave and logical move to test a new format of Stallion Licensing in which the young colts are allowed to mature to the age of 3 and are presented under saddle for approval. The new concept was applauded by many. However stallion owners...

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Olympic Pulse: What Will London Be About?

01/08/2012

2012 Olympic Games

After I finished posting my first blog of the 2012 Olympic Games I stepped outside my hot, humid and stuffy broomstick room to grab a bite to eat before I would go to bed. The first people I saw around the corner were Chris Hector and Roz Neave at a table in a local restaurant.

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Newsletter Ramblings

24/06/2012

Editorial

In January 2012 we finally gave birth to Eurodressage's weekly newsletter. It was an elephant pregnancy as I had brainstormed and planned the newsletter for months but it never came to fruition because of other priorities. We have received tremendous feedback to our free weekly letters from our...

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