Judging Freestyles: Goodbye Judge, Hello Computer!

[Mike Matson]

Looks like the day may be coming when Hal 9000 judges your freestyle.



EQ Musync To Improve the Judging of the Kur to Music

http://www.eurodressage.com/news/dre.../2010/eqm.html

EQ-Musync is an 'all in one' software and hardware system that provides required information in REAL TIME during a 6-minute long dressage freestyle. EQM will generate a 100% objective analysis of the music used and a percentage of synchronisation between the music and the horse in all the performed gaits and transitions.

Judges will receive the EQM horse data analysis (HDA) and musical data analysis (MDA) reports immediately after the test, including the score in percentages. It will give them an exact idea of how synchronized a freestyle was. Judges can now concentrate more on the combination and assess a kur more accurately.

See the online EQM-video presentation by requesting a password at video@eqmusync.com

[galopp]

Well maybe HAL can also caculate poll the highest point and horse ifv and RK will be out the window.....

[Mike Matson]

Exactly.

[Friesiansport]

Well, this will certainly help in our process of turning horses into accurate metronomes!

[LEANNERPH]

You should sign up to watch the demo. Actually it's fascinating. After watching it several times, it actually demonstrates how up and open poll highest point keeps the gait purest. This is technology that will be very helpful for postive judging changes. The rhythm of the horse is CLEARLY negatively impacted in certain outlines and when that's put together with the technology it's made exceptionally clear, even to uneducated eyes....
I'm looking forward to see the development of this project.