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Team Roping Tips
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.

Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association
Lockett, Party of Seven: Brand New Baby Puts Finishing 16th in its Place
Kyle and Leigh Lockett welcomed their fifth child Sept. 30.

Horsemanship
Coaching Your Kids with Trevor Brazile
Sometimes helping our own kids in the arena can be our greatest challenge.

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Kids and Roping: Getting It Right with Justin Davis
Justin Davis on kids and roping.
Jackpots
ONES TO WATCH: Calvin Taylor, Jr.
Calvin Taylor, 14 , of El Paso, Texas is currently first in the Junior NFR Open Header standings and sixth in the Junior NFR #10 Heeler standings. His sister, Caroline, is coincidentally featured on page 50 as one of the top ladies in the Cinch Ladies Standings.
Team Ropers
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.
Editor's Notes
To the “What’s My Draw?” Mamas…
Rodeo moms keep the Western world turning.

Inner Strength
Jade Corkill: What I’ll Tell My Kids About Rodeo
What Jade Corkill will tell his kids about making it in professional rodeo.
Rodeo Road
Kids’ Horse Must-Haves with JoJo LeMond
JoJo LeMond’s three kids—Newt, 10, Shaylee, 7, and Gunnar, 6-—all have their iconic dad to look up to when it comes to roping and riding. But that doesn’t mean he’ll just throw them on any great horse that comes along.
Team Ropers
A Finalist’s Mental Approach with Kollin VonAhn
Kollin VonAhn won the College National Finals Rodeo heeling for Ryan Carter in 2005, and since then he’s won three Wrangler National Finals Rodeo average titles and two gold buckles. He knows a thing or two about making the best of things at the end.