Dressage show question

Liberty's Gal · 06-20-2008, 04:06 PM

This is super embarrassing but at my dressage show today I got a comment from the judge that I salute wrong

My instructor was confused as well as she thought I was fine.

Could someone explain the minutiae of saluting?

sirius-dressage · 06-20-2008, 04:28 PM

Put both reins in the left hand, lower your right hand toward your thigh, and drop your head. Don't rush through, give it a second or two after you halt before you salute and a second to collect yourself before your trot out from your halt.

How are you saluting?

Edit - oops...I'd typed lower your left hand, lower your right hand. Can't hold the reins and drop your hand all at the same time.

Reitpferde · 06-20-2008, 04:30 PM

Ditto for sirius-dressage.

MissCriss · 06-20-2008, 04:51 PM

Wait, you put the reins in your left hand then use that same hand to bring it down to your thigh? I thought you were supposed to put the reins in one hand, then take the other and touch it quickly to your helmet, then bring both your head and the hand you used to touch your helmet down? And then you keep the hand you used to touch your helmet straight and stiff right?

Liberty's Gal · 06-20-2008, 05:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sirius-dressage

Put both reins in the left hand, lower your left hand toward your thigh, and drop your head. Don't rush through, give it a second or two after you halt before you salute and a second to collect yourself before your trot out from your halt.

How are you saluting?

I put reins and whip in left hand, used right hand to touch helmet and bring hand past thigh and nod head.

I am thinking touching the helmet is the wrong part?

Or maybe I can't use the right hand?

Reitpferde · 06-20-2008, 05:09 PM

Touching the helmet is the wrong part. That is actually begging off the jump off in the jumper world.

I Love BODIE! · 06-20-2008, 06:44 PM

I agree with Reitpferde

Reitpferde · 06-20-2008, 06:45 PM

Thank you, I Love Bodie

MissCriss · 06-20-2008, 07:35 PM

Wow I am so surprised! I have ALWAYS been taught to touch the helmet...well, that was when I was an eventer. Now that I think of it, I do remember my current dressage instructor telling me not to touch my helmet and to just bring the hand/arm straight down. Everything in my left hand, then I bring the right hand down.

Feliche · 06-20-2008, 07:46 PM

Yup, reins in your whip hand, drop the other hand down to your thigh, and bow your head down...but look dignified!

I used to slouch and when I saw the vid I looked like a diving duck or something! =P

06-20-2008, 04:06 PM	#1
Liberty's Gal Senior Member+ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Minnesota Posts: 1,450 Images: 179	Dressage show question This is super embarrassing but at my dressage show today I got a comment from the judge that I salute wrong My instructor was confused as well as she thought I was fine. Could someone explain the minutiae of saluting? __________________ "Success is NOT perfection. Success is being just a little better each day." No 1 Dazy and Bobbie Paulk, USDF "R" Judge Home To: Markus KA (aka Denali)

06-20-2008, 04:28 PM	#2
sirius-dressage Senior Member+ Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Northern VA Posts: 2,738 Images: 84 Blog Entries: 1	Put both reins in the left hand, lower your right hand toward your thigh, and drop your head. Don't rush through, give it a second or two after you halt before you salute and a second to collect yourself before your trot out from your halt. How are you saluting? Edit - oops...I'd typed lower your left hand, lower your right hand. Can't hold the reins and drop your hand all at the same time. __________________ Oliver July1994 - July 18, 2008 You will always be loved. Last edited by sirius-dressage; 06-22-2008 at 03:59 AM.

06-20-2008, 04:30 PM	#3
Reitpferde Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central New Jersey Posts: 694 Images: 9	Ditto for sirius-dressage. __________________ Mom to two teenagers, a QH, a TB, and a German Shepherd, aka pony...

06-20-2008, 04:51 PM	#4
MissCriss Senior Member+ Join Date: May 2007 Location: Glendale, Arizona Posts: 531 Images: 43	Wait, you put the reins in your left hand then use that same hand to bring it down to your thigh? I thought you were supposed to put the reins in one hand, then take the other and touch it quickly to your helmet, then bring both your head and the hand you used to touch your helmet down? And then you keep the hand you used to touch your helmet straight and stiff right? __________________ Please, if you can: stop feeding corn, sweet feed, veggie oil, & grain. Healthier alternatives: BOSS, MoorGlo, RBs, flax, aloe, rice bran, cocosoya, alfalfa pellets, & honey.

06-20-2008, 05:09 PM	#6
Reitpferde Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central New Jersey Posts: 694 Images: 9	Touching the helmet is the wrong part. That is actually begging off the jump off in the jumper world. __________________ Mom to two teenagers, a QH, a TB, and a German Shepherd, aka pony...

06-20-2008, 06:44 PM	#7
I Love BODIE! Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Bay Area, California, USA Posts: 1,235 Images: 42	I agree with Reitpferde __________________ -Emily- Protégé ("Bodie") - 17h 1996 Thoroughbred Gelding

06-20-2008, 06:45 PM	#8
Reitpferde Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central New Jersey Posts: 694 Images: 9	Thank you, I Love Bodie __________________ Mom to two teenagers, a QH, a TB, and a German Shepherd, aka pony...

06-20-2008, 07:35 PM	#9
MissCriss Senior Member+ Join Date: May 2007 Location: Glendale, Arizona Posts: 531 Images: 43	Wow I am so surprised! I have ALWAYS been taught to touch the helmet...well, that was when I was an eventer. Now that I think of it, I do remember my current dressage instructor telling me not to touch my helmet and to just bring the hand/arm straight down. Everything in my left hand, then I bring the right hand down. __________________ Please, if you can: stop feeding corn, sweet feed, veggie oil, & grain. Healthier alternatives: BOSS, MoorGlo, RBs, flax, aloe, rice bran, cocosoya, alfalfa pellets, & honey.

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