Fitness, especially core strength, is important for breakaway ropers. Madison Outhier and Lari Dee Guy discuss how staying strong in your core can help you hold your position and keep you more accurate during a run.

Breakaway ropers NEED to use their horses—even when in a bad position. In this video, Lari Dee Guy and Hope Thompson demonstrate a drill they use while on a horse to keep themselves using their partners rather than their ropes.

Breakaway ropers often ask how they can get their horses crossing over sooner. In this video, Lari Dee Guy explains how to control the right side of the horse to get in position to the inside of the calf faster.

Shelby Boisjoli rides the best breakaway horses in the game, and their warmup routine is a critical part of their success.

Controlling your left elbow is a game-changer when it comes to horse control and balance coming out of the box. In this video, Shelby Boisjoli and Lari Dee Guy demonstrate and explain.

Horses bow leaving the box because their riders aren't controlling their right sides with their legs and feet. In this video, Lari Dee Guy demonstrates how she corrects horses who have this tendency.

Watch as Shelby Boisjoli and Kelsie Domer help a young roper work through box problems with her horse. 

Boisjoli works with a young breakaway roper who is having problems getting her horse to break to the pin and leave smoothly. She breaks down the correct ways to use leg pressure to move your horse in the box and in the arena. 

Good horsemanship in the box will keep your horses relaxed and working their best. Nora Hunt-Lee discusses body language, hand positioning, and leg cues that will help you ride well in the box.

Martha Angelone rides Harley Pryor's "Muffin," for the first time. Muffin is a 9-year-old mare who was trained by Sarah Angelone. Angelone learns how to adjust to the mare's powerful move out of the box and make solid runs while Sarah coaches from the sidelines. Angelone talks through her opinion...

Sarah Angelone pen ropes on a 3-year-old she is training that is on track for 4-year-old futurities. The filly started out in her training as a reiner before starting in Angelone's problem, so she discusses how she works with her sliding tendancies to create her ideal breakaway stop. She works on...