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Rodeo: Team Roping
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2005 US Open Champs
Parity is a term thrown around in sports circles a lot these days. Basically, it means equality. In sports, it means that any team, or at least many teams, have a legitimate chance at being successful. And while many of the nation's major sports leagues are striving for it, parity is... | read »

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Rodeo: Team Roping
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Starting Anew
As the new 2006 season is about to begin, it's time for each of us to take inventory on where we're at and where we want to go. For the last 25 years, I've evaluated what was accomplished the previous year in order to make plans for the future. You need to look at what worked and what... | read »

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The Science of Scoring
If it seems like I spend a lot of time on the subject of scoring, it's because I find it so crucial to the success of any roper, including myself. It's a make-or-break element of the game, plain and simple, and whether I win or lose depends so much on how my horse and I are scoring... | read »

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Lameness and Poor Performance in Horses Used for Team Roping
Lameness is defined as an abnormality of gait such that the horse cannot be used for its intended purpose, and is the most common reported health problem for all types of horses. According to a study conducted by Ross and Kaneene in the 1996 Pre Vet Med, it is estimated that lameness problems... | read »

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Rodeo: Team Roping
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Invest in Your Horse Herd
It's way easier to win when you're riding a good horse that suits your style of roping. So if there's one corner you don't want to cut it's your horsepower. Trust me, this is an area of my roping that I think about and try to improve upon every single day. You have to if you want to be... | read »

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Those Fabulous Fundamentals
There are certain basics and fundamentals that everybody, headers and heelers, have to use as a base for their own personal style. Keeping good center of balance on your horse when you're riding, for example, and having your body in a position where you can have a good fundamental swing... | read »

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The Roping Business
If you're going to rope for a living, or you want to rope as a hobby without blowing your life savings on it, you need to treat your roping just like any other business. You have to put the time and effort into it just like anything else, if you want to get something out of it. You can't... | read »

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Rodeo: Team Roping
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Rope Selection
Years ago, there wasn't a whole lot of choice when it came to rope selection. When I was a kid, you either headed with a soft-lay head rope or heeled with a hard-lay heel rope. I can only remember a couple rope makers when I was a kid, so there weren't many choices. We used our ropes... | read »

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Jake Barnes & Clay OBrien Cooper: Its Team Roping
Sometimes people tend to forget that this is team roping. You couldn't do it by yourself if you wanted to, and the more you consider how to make every run better for your partner, the better. Headers need to remember that there are times when taking a little extra time to set up a good... | read »

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Guarding Against Slumps
Tee Woolman paid me a pretty big compliment a couple years ago when he said, "You know, you're one of the only guys I've ever seen who's never been in a slump." I thought that was pretty cool. I also thought that, whether you're talking about Jake (Barnes), Clay (O'Brien Cooper), Tee,... | read »

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Mike Cervi Jr. Memorial Roping

 

Mike Cervi Jr., the son of legendary stock contractor Mike Cervi and husband of two-time World Champion Barrel Racer Sherry Cervi, died in a private plane crash in 2001 at the age of 30. Ever since, his family and friends have annually held a team roping in his honor. He... | read

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