Jake Barnes and Clay O'Brien Cooper: Tips, Pressure, and Switching Sides
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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 than make a perfect run, and how muscle memory eventually takes over so you are not constantly reminding yourself of every step. Clay breaks down the positioning differences between heading and heeling and how each role reads and reacts to the steer differently. They cover handling steers and the different variables that can change a run in a split second, including a few embarrassing moments from the heeling side that come with the territory.
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