Who is Shady…?

I’m an Arab cowboy born with a unique gift. My dream is to give people their leadership back and to help humans have better communication and understanding of horses. I specialise in solving horses problems and believes I can teach anyone to be a horseman as long as they have will, faith, knowledge understanding, patience and feeling. I was born in 1984. I’ve loved horses and rode them from a very early age and my brother Rami helped me buy my first horse at the age of 12. My horse’s name was Adham, he was an Arab stallion with no respect for people. A horse with many behavior problems. I went through many troubles with this horse, including falls, breaking a leg and many injuries, however I continued to ride on him until I learned to get on with him and to ‘survive’. By the time I was 16 he had already ridden this horse in most of Israel, mainly in orchards, and had trained another mare called Sandy that I bought when she was ten months old. I competed with the mare in races in Israel and at the same time worked in other jobs to earn a living. Sadly, during this time, Sandy was stolen. I searched for her throughout the country but without success. What I believe If a person has the will, faith, knowledge, understanding, patience and feeling he can achieve anything he wants; however, everything takes time: some things take less time and some take more and it depends what exactly you do, who with etc. Over the years I’ve seen that every problem has a solution; however, every problem can take much time and energy out of us and there are different ways to deal with this. From my wide experience I have learned that the problem always begins with people and not with horses. That’s the problem; it’s impossible to work only with horses; you have

to work in cooperation between horses and their owners, who have to know at least the basics of psychological understanding of horsemanship, and build a good foundation. Each horse has to have a foundation regardless of what your aim is for that horse, English style or Western style. When you build a house you need to build good foundations that meet standards and afterwards you can use different forms and colours, etc. Unfortunately, many people advance too quickly with their horses without a good foundation. They even begin to compete jumping and even dressage without a good foundations, and they experience many troubles on the way and in many cases they regret and do not progress as they should; or everything collapses, such as in the case of a horse who has managed to jump and win competitions and suddenly completely refuses to cooperate, or goes too fast, or other similar examples in all branches of horsemanship. Methods I have developed over the years Over the years I have learned to take all the positive things that I see or try from every branch of horsemanship, from every person, whether professional or amateur. I have taken the good things from Western riding, from English riding, and even from the world of free-style riding and I have used what I can from them so that I have strengths I can use

and that are fair to the horse. When I teach a person horsemanship, all I want is that he will learn the basic minimum, so he will prepare himself; firstly that he will learn how his body behaves and raise his awareness of what he does with himself, how and when, and after that the horses will understand. I invest a great deal of effort in the person’s understanding, so that he can understand what exactly is needed, what is the nature of the method – pressure and release at the right time. He has to understand that you have to behave slightly differently to each horse; they all understand through pressure and release, but the level of strength in the way of using pressure can be changed in order to help the horse to understand best what you want from him, without fighting battles against the horse, and without arguments, to try to operate the horse in positive ways (and words) – to occupy his brain before he occupies us. Contact us now for more information on our Level 1a horsemanship course, running for five Sundays from 9am-3pm at our ranch in Bryerley springs, Milton Keynes.

■ For further information on any of our courses available please contact a member of the team direct on 07577 414 193 to discuss your individual needs, or for further information please visit www.shadyhorsemanship.com