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YEH JUDGES TRAINING
Sunday, December 9 | 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Moderator: Marilyn Payne | Napoleon C3
USEA Young Event Horse Committee Chair Marilyn
Payne will review the new YEH scoring/judging
system and work with judges to understand and
correctly judge YEH classes. This is open to all current
YEH judges or those interested in becoming a YEH
judge.
COMPETITION LEVEL VS. REQUIRED
SKILLS, PART 2
Sunday, December 9 | 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Speaker: Dan Michaels | Maurepas
Ask any two USEA members to discuss competitors'
and horses' skills required at each level of competition
and you will likely receive two widely disparate
answers. The lack of agreement often leads to
passionate arguments, unprepared competitors at
competitions, and horses meeting course questions
with confusion. In these two workshops, invested
membership will work to develop a matrix of
competition level versus competitor skills. Entries
within the matrix delineate the level of mastery
required for a skill at each competition level and point
to descriptive documentation (including videos). In the
first workshop we will pose the problem and articulate
a matrix solution. Interested workshop participants
will be tasked to think about the matrix and associated
documentation, develop contributive ideas, and return
to the second session to further develop the matrix.
At this second session we hope to identify a cadre of
USEA members willing to work the matrix into a
completed form in order to present this documentation
at the 2019 USEA Convention in Boston.
