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New Roping.com Series Drop: Roping Through It with Joseph Harrison
Joseph Harrison breaks down his heel loop, his timing and the program behind every horse he rides in a new Roping.com series.

Joseph Harrison has made a career out of riding good horses and making more of them. In Roping Through It with Joseph Harrison, now streaming on Roping.com, the NFR heeler and futurity trainer takes ropers into his practice pen to show how he ropes and how he builds the horses underneath him.

What’s Inside

  • Heeling mechanics: timing, body position and how he adjusts his swing to fit different cattle
  • Young horses: how he brings along prospects without rushing them
  • Seasoned horses: how he keeps an older horse sharp and why no two get the same program
  • The stop and the bridle: building a stop and choosing the right bit for the horse
  • Confidence: keeping horses sure of their jobs and keeping roping fun

Episode guide

  1. Heeling Basics and Understanding Your Loop: the tip, spoke and bottom strand of a heel loop
  2. Getting in Time With Your Steer: how his timing changes from user-friendly steers to open ropings and rodeos
  3. Swinging Flatter and Finding the Right Rope Plane: rope plane and fixing a swing that dips

Watch IT

Roping Through It with Joseph Harrison is available to Roping.com members. Members also get weekly tutorials from World Champions, full practice sessions, livestreams of major ropings and access to a members-only Facebook group.

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About Joseph Harrison

Harrison is a six-time Wrangler NFR qualifier (2017-22) with more than $1.1 million in career earnings. His best year came in 2020, when he and Luke Brown won The American and he finished third in the world. He has won some of the biggest rodeos on the map, including Cheyenne Frontier Days in 2018 and the Reno Rodeo in 2019, both with Chad Masters. In 2026, he won five rodeos, including Franklin, Tennessee, and the Will Rogers Stampede in Claremore, Oklahoma.

When he’s not rodeoing, Harrison trains horses for a living, and that work has made him one of the top names in the rope horse futurity world. He won the $100,000 Solo Select Futurity heeling on Dont Stopp Trackin in 2025, won and placed second in the ARHFA World Show pre-futurity heeling that fall, and won the Old West pre-futurity heeling on Royal Nites in October 2026.

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