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Rodeo: Team Roping
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Roping Schools
As the recreational team roping industry continues to grow steadily, so does the roping school scene. More professional cowboys--looking to either avoid the road altogether or offset the rising fuel prices--are offering clinics. One of the more recent trends is the roping camp, where... | read »

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Rodeo: Team Roping
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Reading Each Run and Making Adjustments Along the Way
When I rope I have a game plan for what I'm going to do, whether I'm going to try to make a fast run or a solid run. It would be ideal to have the same shot every time so you could bank on muscle memory, but we don't have that luxury because the circumstances are always different. The arena... | read »

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Hitting the Heart of the Rodeo Season
In the rodeo and roping industry, you have the winter rodeos, which consist of rodeos like Odessa (Texas), Denver, San Antonio, Houston, Austin, San Angelo (Texas) and Tucson (Ariz.). Then there are the major ropings, like the George Strait and the Wildfire. Those events set the pace and the... | read »

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Rodeo: Team Roping
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Start Your Run Right
Dear Clay, I've got two horses, and I'm having trouble with my young horse leaving the box. First of all, my horse gets nervous, won't stand and sometimes will even rear up. He never leaves the box flat. I know this is a major problem, but I'm out of ideas and am having trouble making any... | read »

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Rodeo: Team Roping
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There's More to Preparation Than Practice Alone
Jake (Barnes) and I had a pretty good winter, really. We won quite a bit, so we both chose to head home for a while. I've been sticking around home in Texas, and he's been staying around Arizona the last couple months. I've gone to a few little rodeos with Kevin Stewart, and Jake's been out... | read »

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Rodeo: Team Roping
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Keeping Your Eye on the Ball Over the Long Haul
One of the things that separates the top ropers who really win all the time is their ability to stay focused on their game. That's probably one of the most commonly asked questions from people who are very talented and asking for advice on how to get better. What they're really trying to do... | read »

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Rodeo: Team Roping
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Don't Let Drugs and Alcohol Derail You
I've talked to you about roping for a lot of years, and that's not going to stop. But I also want to share some of the other things that are on my heart from time to time; things I think are important to all of us in our lives. I got a pretty amazing response in April when I talked about some... | read »

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Rodeo: Team Roping
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Six Figures Apiece!
The first is that it's hosted by the king of country music. The second is that, like last year, the winning team earned the biggest set of Open paychecks ever written. The two-day George Strait Team Roping Classic is always open to the world. No qualifications, no invitations, no caps, no... | read »

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Rodeo: Team Roping
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Setting Up Your Position in the Corner
When you're setting up your approach into the corner, that's the most crucial time as far as position and horsemanship go in the heeler's run. You're seeing how the header's setting up the corner on the steer, and you're basically reacting to that and trying to read what kind of a shot that's... | read »

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Catching on the Last Shot
For Chad Masters and Jade Corkill, winning the RodeoHouston team roping title was the plan all along. When Masters, the reigning world champion header, first injured his knee while practicing steer wrestling in preparation for the Wrangler Timed-Event Championships, then tore his ACL,... | 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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