Tate Kirchenschlager uses a breakaway hondo to rope the horns on a green head horse to take the pressure off turning the steer and instill rate.

ARHFA World Champion Tate Kirchenschlager takes us through turning a ranch horse and heel horse into a head horse in his practice pen in Stephenville, Texas.

Trevor Brazile and Miles Baker put together a day's worth of runs on their young horses in the practice pen before the American Rope Horse Futurity Association World Championships.

World Champion Heeler Jeremy Buhler takes us into a practice session on a green horse he's trying to adjust to, talking through the good and bad of each run and breaking down his game plan for success.

Tyler Merrill and NFR heeler Ryan Motes prepare for the American Rope Horse Futurity Association's World Championships and breakdown their runs on their young horses.

Nora Hunt-Lee breaks down a run. Her game plan was to keep her young mare to the left of the steer.

Watch practice runs of Miles Baker and Trevor Brazile from one of our video shoot.

BFI Champion and NFR Header JR Dees and two-time World Champion Matt Sherwood get some mid-Cheyenne Frontier Days practice in with Roping.com outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming, in the middle of ProRodeo's summer run. JR Dees hops on a green head horse Sherwood owns, while Sherwood rides through his st...

Brad Lund and Dakota Kirchenschlager both ride "over-achieving" young horses who need their intensity dialed back down, be it in the run or in the box. In this video, they talk through their approach to an entire practice session, complete with live runs and box work. 

Trey Yates makes some practice runs on his futurity 4-year-old mare.

As he prepares for a futurity, Trey Yates practices on a 5-year-old mare he heels on and his dad, JD, heads on.

The great ropers have the key fundamentals of heeling mastered. Hunter Koch talks about how to focus on the key elements of roping in a practice session. 

In this footage, Trevor Brazile runs the same pen of cattle as a group of amateur ropers. He gives a detailed analysis of what each roper does well, and points out common roping mistakes that they can improve on. Watch this clip from the Legend film.

Joseph Harrison is a master at precision, and his horses and his roping stand out because of that. In this video, Roping.com films Harrison preparing for the 2022 Bob Feist Invitational, where Harrison won the coveted Heel Horse of the BFI bronze.

Tate Kirchenschlager's World Champion Head Horse Born In The Boondocs doesn't take too much fine-tuning, but after some aggressive runs he can use backed off in the practice pen.

Even the best miss. Travis Graves is one of the winningest heelers of all times, but he explains what he did wrong to miss a steer in the practice pen. 

Your practice cattle should prepare you for any situation. In this video, Clay O'Brien Cooper talks about the types of cattle to have on hand as you get ready for the Finale.

Bubba Buckaloo asks for full-contact runs on a seasoned horse.

Bubba Buckaloo and Joseph Harrison practice for the 2021 BFI on both young horses and ProRodeo mounts.

Practice session with Cody Snow and Wesley Thorp before the American Rope Horse Futurity Association World Championship from Thorp's arena in Stephenville, Texas.