Mr. Beth Halachmy

His insights contribute a positive force to challenge the status quo, in terms of defining advanced understanding and interaction with horses.

COWBOY DRESSAGE

His insights, teaching methods, training criteria, and, most importantly, the judging rules and standards that he has established, show not only leadership, but contribute a positive force to challenge the status quo, in terms of defining advanced understanding and interaction with horses.

For 55 years, Mr. Beth Halachmy has been refining his skills and insights; he has performed as a featured Act in the Opening and Closing ceremonies at the 2006 and 2010 World Equestrian Games; his Demonstrations have been viewed by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide; he has lead the way to found a Global organization spanning countries located on four continents, giving rise to dozens of National and State chapters; he has given hundreds of Clinics worldwide; lectured with Dr. Robert Miller, whose groundbreaking work on imprinting in horses has helped to inform and guide Eitan’s teaching and training methods. Eitan Beth Halachmy has created books, monographs, videos, anatomical and scientifically sound illustrations and drawings, and, more than anything else…he has created new understanding of gaits and ways of travel, all of which are emphasized and taught using his new competitive Discipline: Cowboy Dressage. Indeed, he even designed a revolutionary new Cowboy Dressage Court that is based on biomechanics, not just tradition, and in this, above all, he has shown leadership and courage to challenge the status quo.

Further, Eitan Beth Halachmy has…

Co-founded the Light Hands Horsemanship Clinic; influenced and taught Prize Winning Trainers, such as (1) Jack Brainard, who has been inducted into the National Reining Horse Association Hall of Fame and Iowa Quarterhorse Hall of Fame; (2) Richard Winters, World Champion in National Reining Horse, Road to the Horse and Monte Roberts Equitarian award; (3) Breeders such as Sheila Varian, Co-founder and Director of the Arabian Breeders Association; (4) million-dollar Prize winners such as Craig Johnson; (5) collaborated with author, TV personality and Program Host Rick Lamb; (6) spoken to audiences internationally from Brazil, France, Australia, Venezuela, Germany, Israel and even from the ranks of senior membership of the FEI, such as Leopoldo Palacios, (7).

Most importantly Eitan is an immigrant who came to his country for one reason…his love of horses and the legend of the American Cowboy. It has been an amazing journey from a young shepherd in the hills of Jerusalem to his accomplishments today. He is living his dream…

In sum, Eitan Beth-Halachmy is a creative evolutionary force in the equine industry.

His courage to redefine teaching practices and judging practices will challenge ALL equine disciplines, based on his insights which are scientific, rational, deeply humane, and compassionate, and technically correct.

In practical terms, Mr. Beth Halachmy has challenged existing conventional wisdom in the defining of high-performance, technical prowess with respect to horse and rider movement. He has done so at the highest levels of technical and scientific understanding. He has drawn upon his knowledge of anatomy, biomechanics, and a vast body of classical horsemanship training to devise his own set of insights attributable to no one else. For Western disciplines, he has adapted classical equitation, Vaquero traditions, European and non-European skills dating back centuries, and made his insights appealing and accessible to equine enthusiasts, industry scions and devotees worldwide. Eitan has influenced the largest member organizations for breeds in the U.S. such as AQHA, Morgan horses, all variety of warmbloods, mules, minis. Arabians, He has founded a new competitive discipline that complements existing ones such as classical equitation and classical Dressage, all the way along the spectrum from pleasure riding to Olympic and WEG levels.

Originality – Influence – Organization – Leadership – Legacy

Often, truly independent original thinkers fail to achieve impact directly from their insights, because they do not have the leadership and organizational skills to put their ideas into widespread adoption and practice by others.

Eitan Beth Halachmy, however, has the benefit of a charismatic personality, personal courage, and true leadership skills. With his partner and wife Debbie Beth Halachmy, through their global organization, Cowboy Dressage World, and its Board of Directors, Eitan has created the infrastructure to effectively spread their message and set standards, worldwide. Cowboy Dressage World has given rise to various State and National chapters, whose goals are the establishment of accepted standards, teaching/training methods, and judging criteria. With his extensive collection of teaching materials and guidelines, his years of headlining instructional Clinics and through the use of his widely disseminated Videos and Teaching Manuals, influencing literally tens of thousands of supporters and hundreds of formal alliance partners, this movement has managed to influence different equestrian disciplines and breeds, and has caused actual change across the world, from Venezuela and Brazil to France, Germany, and Australia.

Eitan has been the past recipient of the USEF Western Horseman of the year twice. He was also inducted into the American Morgan Horse Hall of Fame.

Because of all these important contributions, Eitan Beth Halachmy is highly respected horseman and educator, clinician around the world.