Horsemanship
Elevate your horsemanship skills for success in team roping with our expert video collection featuring top coaches like Clay O'Brien Cooper and Trevor Brazile. This playlist offers essential techniques and strategies, covering everything from groundwork to advanced maneuvers. Designed for all skill levels, these instructional videos will deepen your understanding of horse behavior and enhance your overall performance. Dive in now to build a solid foundation for effective horsemanship and strengthen your connection with your horse!
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Balance & Posture
Staying in position in the saddle helps you control your loop and ride your horse in position. Patrick Smith explains proper posture in the saddle.
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Addressing Spooking in the Practice Pen
Jake Barnes and Clay O'Brien Cooper share expectations for young horses and the way they handle spooking and flightiness in the practice pen.
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Avoiding Roping Wrecks
What NOT to do in the roping pen.
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The Right Way to Introduce Your Horse to Live Cattle
Transitioning from the roping dummy to slow cattle is a delicate process. Trevor Brazile talks about instilling good habits at every step of the game.
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Handling a Dragger
Keeping a dragging steer moving is key to helping your heeler rope two feet. Trevor Brazile and Miles Baker break down how they manage the roping and riding on a dragger.
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Making a New Partner Work
Partner swapping can be detrimental to your roping, and Trevor Brazile talks through why that is and how you can make adjustments if you need to swap.
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Tying to the Right Fence: A Roper's Desensitization Method
Dakota Kirchenschlager leaves dozens of horses tied to the fence all around his arena, with plenty tied right along the right fence, too. His method allows him to desensitize those horses while testing the attention span of the ones he's riding.
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Dialing Back a Strong, Talented Young Horse
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Training Horses Alongside Your Spouse
Justin and Jordon Briggs have built Briggs Performance Horses by respecting each other's respective styles of riding and learning to complement one another in the process.
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When To Quit
When is it time to quit each day? Miles Baker explains that it depends on your goal and changes every day.
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Speeding Up Your Runs
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Overcoming Mistakes: Body Movement in the Saddle
Leaning back and forth in the saddle can become a bad habit—one JR Dees knows well. Here's how he overcomes it.
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Steer Stopping Session on Ex-Reiner
Dakota Kirchenschlager and Brad Lund talk through a steer stopping session on a green ex-reiner.
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Relentless Insights: Foot Speed
What is foot speed, and why does it matter? Trevor Brazile and Miles Baker explain why foot speed is so important for a head horse and how they help horses develop and control it.
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Handling Cattle That Go Left
Roping cattle that cut under you is hard enough. Then handling them? Here's how Kolton Schmidt explains the best way to help your heeler once you've got a steer roped that ran under you.
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The Change with Roping
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Roping Videos are Key to Learning Techniques