Clay knows exactly what he misses most: his 25-year-old body. Life is a blessing and youth is a special thing, but beyond the physical it is the people he misses most. The friendships, the old buddies, and the time spent with people who understood the life. Clay gets personal talking about the Ya...

Jake and Clay get asked one of those questions that says a lot about a person. Clay's answer is straightforward: he grabs whatever his wife tells him to or heads for the cash and the safe. Beyond that, the trinkets don't mean as much as people might think. The memories live between him and God, a...

Jake and Clay look back at the runs that defined their careers, winning the George Strait, the BFI, and the NFR, and the ones that still sting. Clay roping a leg when they were on the verge of winning the George Strait is one that comes up fast. They talk about the luck of the draw, how confidenc...

Jake and Clay get honest about the lean years and how they managed them. Jake says he was never broke because he always had roping schools running on the side, keeping money coming in during the dry spells. Clay took a different route, borrowing money from his grandma once and paying her back rig...

Jake and Clay take a trip down memory lane and talk about what life on the road actually looked like. They remember the rigs they traveled in, from Dodge Cummins trucks to Capri campers, and taking their families along for the ride. They had their roles figured out early: Clay drove at night and ...

Jake and Clay sit down and go back to the beginning. Jake first saw Clay rope in college and at the World Junior Finals and knew right away he was watching something special. His own roping education came from the Ropers Sports News, and he and Clay reminisce about the old days and how the sport ...

Jake and Clay get into what it actually takes to be successful: hard work, grinding, and understanding that mental exhaustion builds you up rather than breaks you down. When you are young roping never feels like a job, and they say that mindset is everything. They talk about the difference betwee...

Jake and Clay head into another practice session with two very different horses under them. Jake's horse is a little fragile in the box so he keeps it to five runs focused on getting ready for competition. Clay is on a green horse and going with the flow, taking what he gets. Jake is honest about...

Jake and Clay get back to work, making practice runs and talking through what is coming up in each one. They share the story of a match roping where each partner had to head five and heel five and they came out on top. On a typical day they are putting in 25 to 35 runs, getting the reps in and wo...

Jake Barnes has spent his life heading, but his love of heeling and the challenge it brings out a different side of his competitive nature, especially when the pressure is on at the World Series Finale. He talks through the difficulty of staying aggressive when you are trying to just catch rather...

The answer is simple: they roped 24/7, nonstop, as fast as they could go, and they had the desire to win. Clay grew up with a stepfather who was an old school cowboy, riding broncs and bulldogging, and he was a good catcher. Rodeo was all Clay ever wanted to do and that hunger showed up every sin...

Jake and Clay mix methodical runs with wide open ones, and both serve a purpose. Running steers as fast as they can go keeps you sharp and translates directly to the rodeos they are entered up at. Jake talks through his horses including a 12-year-old mare from Max Kuttler that serves as his secon...

Life is about more than rodeo, but being married to a rodeo cowboy is no easy road. Jake Barnes and Clay O’Brien Cooper have had completely different experiences with their marriages and their lives despite rodeoing side-by-side for decades, and this might be their most raw on-camera interview ev...

Jake Barnes and Clay O’Brien Cooper still see themselves as the young guys they were back before they won their first gold buckles. How are they handling their aging and their roping, and how are they mentally handling their decreasing strength and increasing aches and pains?

Jake Barnes talks about the gambling mindset that has helped, and hurt, him over the years and how it has impacted his life and career.

Jake Barnes is a seven-time world champion header. But how did he get his start? Barnes describes his life growing up and how he got his start roping.

Jake Barnes talks about his best horses over the years.

How did Jake Barnes and three-time World Champion Junior Nogueira meet? Jake explains the time he first met Nogueira and life changed after that.

Being a world champion means having a world champion attitude and maturity. Jake Barnes explains his life as a role model.

What is the JakeSteer and how did it start? Jake Barnes describes how the JakeSteer was created.

For a long time, team ropers were second-class citizens in the eyes of ProRodeo. Jake Barnes and Clay O'Brien Cooper—seven-time world champs—were part of the struggle to get equal money in the largest event in ProRodeo. 

How exactly did Jake & Clay become Jake & Clay? Jake Barnes and Clay Cooper talk about their first time meeting and how they developed into the most iconic and longest-lasting team in history. 

Jake Barnes and Clay O'Brien Cooper tell the story of getting turned out in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with Allen Bach. 

Jake Barnes and Clay O'Brien Cooper tell stories about traveling in the early days of their careers with Allen Bach, including crazy camper travel stories.