Position Varies with Steer Speed
When it comes to heeling position, I think it's sometimes more a rhythm with your horse and the type of cattle you're roping than anything else. Plus different rodeos and ropings will require different skills. When team roping, I think your distance is an important part of heeling, and to create... | read »
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Training a Head Horse
Not everybody in the industry can afford to go buy a finished rope horse that's ready to go to the rodeos. Whether you're a young kid learning to rope or an older team roper living on a fixed income, you might not be able to go out and buy the best head horse or heel horse on the market. I don't... | read »
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Training Yourself to React in the Roping Arena
Practice is the way we train ourselves to react when it comes time in the rodeo arena or team roping pen. What we do over and over using repetition time and time again is basically the response that we're going to call on come rodeo time. Our reactions are set by the repeated team roping patterns... | read »
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The Importance of the Bridle Reins
Everybody develops his or her own style of roping and horsemanship, and one
area of many in which everyone is an individual is the bridle reins. It's an
important area for me, because a big part of my control of my horse in the rodeo arena comes from my reins.
There are different aspects to... | read »
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Coming Through When the Moneys Up
Are you one of those people who can team rope with the best of them at home, then
falls to pieces when you get to the roping or rodeo? If so, you should look to
the areas of confidence and commitment. If you can head or heel at home, and you head
to the rodeo or roping fully prepared and... | read »
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Cody Christian
Cody Christian has overcome incredible physical disabilities to become a competitive team roper. As a heeler, Christian has won countless prizes and his hopes of a rodeo career are strong. Team roping helped him heal and rodeo gives him hope and horses give him legs. Like any good cowboy, Cody... | read »
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David Key Getting a Steers Head in the Corner
There are a lot of different variations at every roping and rodeo on the angle at which
different headers get the steer's head in the corner. Some team roping
headers are
straighter behind the steer, some are a little further to
the left, and
some are
real wide in the corner. The... | read »
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Never Stop Trying to Improve
Having started roping as a little kid--roping whatever would move, from
dogs
to other kids--I went through all the steps. I started in junior
rodeo, then
progressed through high school rodeo, college and amateur rodeo,
plus lots of team roping
jackpots. Who knew it would turn out like... | read »
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Jake Barnes Put a Positive Spin on the Mental Games
This is a tough, tough mental game. So many things in this sport can go
either way and affect you for a long time. Maybe you drew the pup and won a
buckle at your first junior rodeo. Or instead, you drew a zig-zagger, fell off
and could hear the crowd laughing. A break here or there can... | read »
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Jake Barnes Horse Maintenance 101
If you rope or rodeo, your horse is one of your biggest assets. But if there's
any injury bothering him, he's not going to give you 110 percent. The good team roping and rodeo
horses are few and far between, so you need to take care of them. Every horse is
a little different in his... | read »
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
