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Arena GLER is the official publication of Rappel's Arena fficial publication of Rappel's Arena Bob Berg Designs 8 464 www.bobbergdesigns.com 1-888-433-5464 Cook 970-302-4149 Russ Cook 970-302-4149 1-855-248-8343 1-888-433-5464 1-888-433-5464 1-855-248-8343 1-855-248-8343 Russ Russ Cook 970-302-4149 1-855-248-8343 Russ Cook 970-302-4149 As always at Rappel's...all prizes are paid for by the producer. Cost of prizes do NOT come out of the ropers pot The WRANGLER is the official publication of Rappel's Arena 58 The WrangleR, Horse and Rodeo News • July 20 - August 4, 2013 through the corner. After two days, they've studied the strides of a lot of runs and are starting to see timing. Going down the arena, watch your target (the hind legs) but use peripheral vision to catch the hip motion, too. The steer's hip goes up and down like a jump rope as he runs. Each time the hip is up tells you "Now, now, now." If the header changes the tempo on you in the corner, just keep your swing smooth but notice that change and pick the tempo back up out of the corner… "Now, now, now." You come around swinging in time with your horse's front foot and as the steer's hip and feet come up, place your tip in front of them. It's as simple as that. So many people want good information but their teacher gives them a kindergarten mentality, like just go rate and then swing over their back, etc. Yes, some people need that. But others don't. Usually at a school I'll have that one college-age header who ropes good and needs advanced help. I can speed that sled up so he can read his distance as he learns to reach. I can keep challenging him to come at that dummy eventually as hard as he can, reading the right amount of rope to throw and getting that steer's head quickly without ducking his horse. If he makes a mistake, he just tweaks it and immediately tries again, for 30 runs in a row. I recently had a header with a horse that wouldn't really rate. After the above program, instead of being worried about pulling on his horse to rate, he'd already dallied and the horse had a nice, smooth stride coming out of there. He just went to another level in two days. You can learn to rope like us, too. Visit SmartRoping.com for more.

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