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Eurodressage
Columnists - Wayne Channon
Wayne's
Dressage World
- 1st December 2009 - Can a Code of Points Improve the Judging System
2009 has been a year of major change for international dressage. The FEI Dressage Committee was abolished and replaced by the Dressage Task Force which worked hard to organize the Judging System Trials in Aachen begin September 2009. New systems were tested as well as the use of half-points, more judges and different positions. At the 2009 FEI General Assembly a new Dressage Committee was elected which is supposed to carry on the positive, constructive plans the DTF has brought about. International dressage rider, IDRC member and List Advisory Group member Wayne Channon has another idea he thinks could improve the judging of dressage: a code of points.
Archive
- 18th January 2009: The Future of Judging
Judging is not the only big issue in dressage but it is probably the most controversial. Our top judges are well trained, very knowledgeable, extremely experienced and totally competent. Yet, so often, even they get it very wrong.
- 19th
January 2008: Judging is Accurate but
the Scoring System is Not
Considering
the overwhelming response to my article on the
half-point, I think this is an issue with
which many people in dressage identify and would
like to see implemented. National and international
riders, trainers, judges, a few Official judges (“O” judges)
and marketing communications experts have written
to me in support of the idea.
- 12th
November 2007: Is
Judging Corrupt or Just Inaccurate?
Even at the top of the sport, we all complain
about bad judging. We think that judges decide
that we
are a “64% or a sub 70% combination” or
that they somehow predetermine what our score will
be no matter how well we do (part of me thinks there
may be a grain of truth in this – even if
it is only subconsciously done)....
 Wayne Channon is a long time member of the British Grand Prix dressage Team. In 1993 he put his successful career in high-tech and internet technology on the back burner in order to devote more time to his dressage career and the decision has clearly paid off. Grand prix champion at the 2005 Sunshine Tour, short listed for the 2004 Athens Olympics and member of the British Team at the 2005 European Dressage Championships and 2006 World Equestrian Games, Channon has captured a place amongst the world's best dressage riders.
Wayne (49) is outspoken in his ideas on the development of dressage and has clear visions on how to improve the health, efficiency and marketing of the sport. He holds a degree in mathematical physics from Imperial College, London, and has been CEO of several multinational companies before turning to dressage. He is currently chairman of Cells4Life, a stem cell storage company based in Brighton, and Stabilitech, a virus and vaccine stabilisation company, both based in Great Britain, and lives with his family in Oud-Turnhout, Belgium.
Wayne is Eurodressage's newest columnist and will be addressing the big issues in dressage via this website. Feel free to react to his columns at
wayne@eurodressage.com
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