Training Yourself to React in the Roping Arena

Practice is the way we train ourselves to react when it comes time in the rodeo arena or team roping pen. What we do over and over using repetition time and time again is basically the response that we’re going to call on come rodeo time. Our reactions are set by the repeated team roping patterns that we allow ourselves to execute.

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