Manage Your Coils Like a Pro
Keep everything pointed toward your target and keep that elbow down.

Don’t let your dummy roping practice hurt you instead of help you. In this video brought to you by Cactus Ropes, Trevor Brazile explains the common dummy roping error that gets in the way of effectively using your coil and reins. Plus: Where your elbows should and shouldn’t be.

“I try to encourage people when they’re roping the dummy to pretend like they have their reins in their hand pointed toward their target.”

Watch “How to Hold Coils When Roping”:

About Trevor Brazile:

Trevor Brazile is the winningest cowboy in professional rodeo history, with $7 million in career earnings and 26 gold buckles. The sport’s elite all-around hand, Brazile has won over $800,000 in Cinch Timed Event Championship competition alone. Since leaving the rodeo arena full-time in 2019, Brazile has changed his focus to making the best young horses in the roping industry. He’s already won hundreds of thousands in American Rope Horse Futurity Association competition, and his training style and philosophy are based on fundamentals and consistency.

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