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Rodeo: Team Roping
from the pages of Rodeo
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
from the pages of Rodeo
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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Rodeo: Team Roping
from the pages of Rodeo
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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Rodeo: Team Roping
from the pages of Rodeo
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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Rodeo: Team Roping
from the pages of Rodeo
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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Rodeo: Team Roping
from the pages of Rodeo
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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Rodeo: Team Roping
from the pages of Rodeo
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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Rodeo: Team Roping
from the pages of Rodeo
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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Rodeo: Team Roping
from the pages of Rodeo
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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Rodeo: Team Roping
from the pages of Rodeo
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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