Jake Barnes & Clay O'Brien Cooper: A Switch-End Practice Session
Lessons From Legends
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16m
In this switch-end session, Jake Barnes and Clay O'Brien Cooper flip their roles, with Jake heeling and Clay heading, and the conversation gets honest fast. Jake, a header for most of his pro career, opens up about how much harder heeling is for him, why timing the fast-hopping cattle feels like the feet are in a blender, and what it takes to get his catch percentage up before Vegas. Clay talks through the mental side of heading and how he treats it like another equation to solve. Along the way, the two legends trade their biggest pet peeves, from headers who take too long in the box to heelers who won't help get a steer in the pen, and get into the gear differences between the two ends, including why heelers burn through so much more rubber and where to find it cheap. It's a rare, candid look at two of the greatest ropers in history working on the side of the run they don't usually rope, with all the humility and humor that comes with it.