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2005
FEI/PSI Freestyle Forum
The Do's and Don'ts in a Freestyle
Zig Zag or not for Young Riders
 The
entrance of two
male young riders in military uniform spiced
the forum. Stephan Koberle and
Benjamin
Werndl,
both Warendorf
Bundeswehr Sportschule students (Military Sportstudents
in Warendorf) presented their horses appealingly, demonstrating
lateral movements to fit the discussion, which
was an in depth debate on
the steepness of angles in the half pass and on sequential
flying changes at young riders level
Koberle's
lovely bay mare
had more difficulty maintaining balance
and rhythm on the
right track in the trot half pass. A good option to
mask this problem in a kur is by riding zig zags in
trot. Bemelmans believed
that
if the young rider is able to do the zig zag, he should
add it to his test. Heike Kemmer claimed that you need
a really well balanced horse for the zig zag and one
that crosses his legs well. Mariette Withages argued
that the zig zag has to follow the lines of the choreography
and the rider has to make sure that all
technical requirements for the kur are fulfilled, before
adding high difficulty movements to the test. She declared
her preference for "nice, easy,
good half passes" over "riders who will penalize themselves
by
making
it difficult [with a zig zag]."
 Stephen
Clarke mentioned that for young riders sequential
flying changes involve the required 4x and
3x tempi's. Full
pirouettes, however, are not allowed at young riders'
level. If a young rider goes for the half pirouette
but makes a full one by accident, he will get a 0
for that exercise and will automatically get no more
than
5 for degree of difficulty in his choreography.
At the end of this session, Benjamin Werndl demonstrated
his kur to music using Lord of the Rings music for
the walk, Harry Potter and Pirates of the Caribbean
music for the canter and Painted Black for the trot.
German kur composer Stephan Krawczyk's main criticism
on the ride was the lack of a theme in Werndl's music.
He said Painted Black was not a
good choice as all other music were movie soundtracks.
"I missed a theme, a red line in the freestyle.
I wasn't so enthusiastic about the music as the judges
were," Krawczyk said.
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