Yes and no. I'ts not straight copying, after all each performance is different so I'm having to do quite a lot of processing of my own, comparing it to previous competitors in order to predict what the judge will award. If I were to continue to do this with different judges I would get pretty good at awarding the correct mark, I just might not be able to explain why. An interesting question you raise is what forms of learning, trial and error, mimicry and instruction, and in what order is mostly likely to give rise to original thought. And an even more interesting question - how much original thought do we want in dressage judges!