Developing a Feel for Your Loop
After teaching team roping schools and competing in rodeo for so many years, I've heard a lot of different reasons for why people prefer long or short spokes in their loop. Each team roper figures out the spoke length that allows him to feel the tip of his or her rope best while roping. I think... | read »
Rodeo: Team Roping
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Rich Skeltons Great Team Roping Horse Chili Dog
World champion Rich Skelton has earned quite a reputation in the rodeo arena with a rope. He's also known for
always riding an exceptional horse. In 2004, his great heel horse Chili Dog won the AQHA/PRCA Heeling Horse of the Year award.
Riding a good one is always part of Skelton's game... | read »
Rodeo: Team Roping
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Tee Woolman's Megazord
It's been a
dream year for Tee Woolman. And as I sit down in mid-October to share another
round of his words with you, the best may well be yet to come. , where he plans to head for
Cory Petska, and his 18th National Finals Steer Roping, not to mention the
$500,000 Pace Picante... | read »
Rodeo: Team Roping
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Remembering Mark Arnold
I remember seeing Mark Arnold around at the ropings and
rodeos when I was a kid, but really didn't know him more than a smile and a
hello. From a distance, he seemed kind of quiet to me, but then I wasn't one of
his close, personal friends.
I spent the better part of a week with Jake... | read »
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Roping with a Good Attitude
Your
attitude carries over and affects your performance. It can also carry over to
your partner and affect his or her performance. For that matter, it can affect
your family life. After all these years, I almost feel like a roping
psychologist. Sometimes us older guys look at the younger... | read »
Rodeo: Team Roping
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Rope Your Way Out of a Slump
No matter who
you are, how well you rope or how good your team is, you're going to experience
times when it seems like something happens to mess up the run and you're not
winning. Your confidence gets down, and the cliche is that you're in a slump.
You see it in all sporting events. It's... | read »
Rodeo: Team Roping
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What Makes People Winners
Do you ever
wonder why some people win so much and other people struggle forever? A lot of
that's just because there are different types of people. There are talented,
confident ropers, and there are talented, unconfident ropers who don't seem to
win when they compete. They need to... | read »
Rodeo: Team Roping
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Team Roping at Pendleton
There's no
other rodeo like it anywhere on earth. And while the grass arena is the
most-mentioned novelty of Oregon's world-renowned Pendleton
Round-Up, there's a lot more to its one-of-a-kind billing than that. Especially
if you're a timed-event contestant who's used to conventional dirt... | read »
Rodeo: Team Roping
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Stay Balanced in the Corner
If you lean
too far forward in the corner, you'll feel like you're out of control. It's a
common problem, and it's pretty easy to fix. The reason this problem hits home
with me more is because my wife, Josey, has had trouble with it in the past.
I see a lot of novice ropers doing this, and... | read »
Rodeo: Team Roping
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Improve Your Roping by Observation
I've
learned so much by always watching other guys I look up to and admire. I still
learn a lot that way. If you're looking to learn and gain more knowledge, if you
just sit and watch you'll pick up things left and right--things you've never
noticed before and things you can try. I grew up... | 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
