The Short Score: Long vs. Short Game Evolution
Not long ago, big reaches weren't all that common. So how did the reaching game come to be?

How did the reaching game develop? And who was responsible?

On this bonus Roping.com tips episode of The Short Score, Jake Barnes and Clay O’Brien Cooper discuss the evolution of heading.

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