Kathy Korell-Rach
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A Parent’s Guide to Coaching Your Own Kids in Team Roping
Parents often raise their children to have similar values, passions, and pastimes as themselves, and team roping parents are no different. If you have a child, chances are that you are in the process of, or planning to, turn him or her into your roping partner. Compared with many sports, a unique aspect of team roping children is they are often taught and coached primarily by parents rather than formal, paid coaches. Coaching children, particularly your own, brings a set of unique challenges. This article will give you ideas for how to coach in a more effective fashion.
Inner Strength
The Team Roper’s Ultimate Guide to Winning Pregame Routines
Main areas to consider and advice from team roping champions to help you get a pregame routine.
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Trust the Process: What That Really Means in Team Roping
Being able to trust every aspect in team roping.
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Attributions: The Causes To Winning or Losing
How our attributions are helping or hurting our winning process.
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Training Your Team Roping Tot
Parents often raise their children to have similar values, passions, and pastimes as themselves, and team roping parents are no different. If you have a child, chances are that you are in the process of, or planning to, turn him or her into your roping partner. Compared with many sports, a unique aspect of team roping children is they are often taught and coached primarily by parents rather than formal, paid coaches. Coaching children, particularly your own, brings a set of unique challenges. This article will give you ideas for how to coach in a more effective fashion.
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Mastering Team Roping’s Mental Game
Mental toughness is increasingly acknowledged as a vital ingredient across athletic disciplines, and a growing body of ropers are making mental fitness a part of their conditioning and training programs. From professional ropers whose livelihood is on the line every time they back into the box to recreational ropers who spend their hard-earned dollars in high-pressure situations, mental errors can be the difference between a payday and monumental disappointment. The Team Roping Journal enlisted the help of Kathy Korell-Rach, Ph.D., a licensed clinical psychologist with a background in rodeo, to examine some common mental blocks that ropers of any competitive level might face and some tips for addressing them in and out of the arena.