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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 »

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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 »

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Ken Luman
I'm not going to sit here and tell you how close a friend Ken Luman was to me. That'd be fiction, and the truth is my bag. But Ken was a guy who's been around the ropings and rodeos all my life, and he reminds me in a few ways of my dad in that he loved to rope and compete, he was a... | read »

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Getting to Know a New Horse
Early on in my quest for a team roping career, I was such a poor horseman that I went through a lot of horses. I've had lots of new horses in my career, and there came a time that I realized I needed to improve greatly in that area if I was going to get any better. I used to think a horse... | read »

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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 »

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Scoring the Head Horse
Scoring is a topic that always comes up. Everyone has questions about scoring, and it's always one of my priorities in roping because the start you get sets the tone for the run. Scoring is the most crucial part of roping at every level, especially at the top level where every tenth of a... | read »

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The Power of Good Position
Everybody has to find his or her own way of achieving good position every time, so you can consistently set up your shot. When most people get into trouble, they're either out of position coming into the corner because they're riding too high up, too far back, too far out to the right or... | read »

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Roping is a Chain Reaction
A roping run is like building blocks. You have to start with step one and go from there. You also need to take it one step at a time. When you get ahead of yourself and try to do steps out of order is when mistakes happen, like missing your slack, missing your dally or slipping a leg. If... | read »

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Handle Steers with Speed
I hear a lot of people say they catch all their steers, but that all the heelers catch for everybody but them. They need to take the time to consider that it might be their handles. The old cliche that "he was loose when I caught him" doesn't win much. I hate the term "turn and burn,"... | read »

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Match Roping for the Ages
The first time I ever used the term Dream Team I was talking about Jake Barnes and Clay O'Brien Cooper. It was half a decade before Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird were dubbed the same name during their gold-medal run at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Jake and Clay's dynasty... | read »

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Ask the Pros--Rating

Dear Logan,
I have a 9-year-old gelding who I have been in the box with and have tracked some steers and calves on him, but he hasn’t been trained yet. He is tracking pretty good, except sometimes he runs right past them. What do you think I should do?

Thanks,
Ryan,... | read

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