Mission

To promote freestyle and provide educational opportunities dealing with choreography, music and judging. To use musical rides to increase exposure and popularize freestyle, quadrille, pas de deux and the sport of dressage.

Goals

1. Design and provide educational programs for freestyle, pas de deux, and quadrille for the general membership and for judge education.
2. Keep freestyle, pas de deux, and quadrille Rules, Guidelines, and Definitions and score sheets up to date and consistent for all three.
3. Coordinate with the Judges, Competition Management and Awards Committees.
4. Maintain a Freestyle web page on the USDF Web site to increase exposure as well as to create promotional activities and educational material for freestyles, pas de deux, and quadrille.

2023 Objectives:

1. Host a Zoom freestyle roundtable for members hosted by a panel from the Freestyle Committee.
2. Continue to address questions and concerns sent in by members.
3. Continue to promote freestyles through articles.
4. Continue to track quadrille and pas de deux rides at licensed competitions.
5. Discuss possible changes to the committee’s mission and goals.
6. Provide input on proposed rule changes that pertain to freestyles and judging freestyles.

Members