Team Roping Practice Sessions
Perhaps the most entertaining roping videos on Roping.com: actual practice sessions from inside the arenas of the best horse trainers and team ropers in the world. Our video library is a treasure trove of practice drills, exercises and routines designed to help you see how the pros practice with a purpose, so you can mimic their methods in your own arena. Plus, you can watch them work some of the best rope horses in the game to get a better understanding of how to practice with your own horses.
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Practicing With Purpose Part 24
Nora Hunt-Lee breaks down a run. Her game plan was to keep her young mare to the left of the steer.
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Practicing For Different Shots
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Trevor Brazile & Miles Baker | Outdoor Futurity Horse Practice Session
Watch practice runs of Miles Baker and Trevor Brazile from one of our video shoot.
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JR Dees & Matt Sherwood | Practice Session
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...
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Dialing Back Down Aggressive Green Horses | Practice Session
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.
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Practice With Purpose (Clay Cooper)
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Trey Yates on a Futurity-bound 4-Year-Old
Trey Yates makes some practice runs on his futurity 4-year-old mare.
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Futurity Heeling Practice on a 5-Year-Old that Heads, Too
As he prepares for a futurity, Trey Yates practices on a 5-year-old mare he heels on and his dad, JD, heads on.
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Dummy Drills: Aaron Tsingine's Practice Routine
Aaron Tsinigine won the gold buckle in 2015 with his sure-shot head loops, and in this video he shows you his dummy-roping routine to get that same shot, too.
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Practice During Downtime
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.
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Lane Ivy & Kirby Blankenship | Practice Session
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Side by Side with Trevor Brazile | Legend
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.
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Match 3 Header Round 2
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A Heeler's Final Practice Before a Big Roping
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.
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Practicing With Purpose Part 23
Nora Hunt-Lee breaks down a run. This is part 23 of the series, and she works on her handle.
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Practice Session | 2021 ARHFA World Champion Born In The Boondocs
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.
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Fresh Cattle-Ride Through The Shot
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Breaking Down a Miss
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.
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Jackpot Run 4
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Jackpot Run 1
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Practicing With Purpose Part 1
Nora Hunt-Lee describes the practice series that she will be taking viewers through. She discusses how she creates a game plan for all types of cattle.
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Ariat World Series of Team Roping Finale Prep: Practice Cattle
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.
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Bubba Buckaloo | Rodeo Horse Practice
Bubba Buckaloo asks for full-contact runs on a seasoned horse.
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Bubba Buckaloo & Joseph Harrison | Practice Session
Bubba Buckaloo and Joseph Harrison practice for the 2021 BFI on both young horses and ProRodeo mounts.