Mental Toughness
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Clay O'Brien Cooper
Winning When You’re Down
Confidence comes easy when you're on a winning streak, but how can team ropers stay positive during a lull?

"The Score" Podcast
The Score: Building a Blueprint for Mental Toughness with Patrick Smith
Two-time World Champion Patrick Smith discusses building a foundation for mental toughness in team roping.

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.

Team Roping Tips
Mental Preparation Before a Major Event
Kolton Schmidt helps you work on your mental game for major events.

"The Score" Podcast
Mentally Prepare for the Ariat World Series of Team Roping Finale with Patrick Smith
Patrick Smith is on "The Score" as a bonus episode in Season 4, brought to you by Roping.com, powered by The Team Roping Journal.

Clay O'Brien Cooper
Compete Like Clay O: Trust Your Team Roping Training
Clay O'Brien Cooper breaks down putting the mechanical parts of team roping together, trusting your training and making the play when the money’s up.

Team Roping News
Masters and Harrison Refocus to Win Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo
Chad Masters and Joseph Harrison won the Sikeston (Missouri) Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo when they got back to the basics: catching.

Clay O'Brien Cooper
Clay O’s Survival Strategies
Everyone faces the highs and lows of team roping. Clay O'Brien Cooper shares his survival strategies that helps him deal with the successes and failures. Here's how.

Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association
Schmidt and Cox Trust Team Roping Run to Win Laramie
With a slow start to the Pro Rodeo season, Kolton Schmidt and Wyatt Cox earned $2,151 each, after their win at the 2021 Laramie Jubilee Days rodeo.

"The Score" Podcast
Finding Your Focus in the Box with Clay O’Brien Cooper
Clay O'Brien Cooper is on "The Score" as a bonus episode in Season 4 with a mental performance segment, brought to you by Roping.com, powered by The Team Roping Journal.