Catch the Head with a Rodeo Loop

Video Transcript

"This is Randall Powell with Expert Village and in this clip, I am going to show you how to throw a loop, a head loop. To make your head loop just like I instructed in the previous clip, you start out with your loop regular and just kind of whirl it around there and when you run out of room, take another coil. Your head loop is going to be quite a bit smaller so you want to shorten it up and then you swing your rope from right to left. When you swing over, you want to be able to kiss your hand swinging your rope. So I just swing it and pretend you can kiss your hand and that is going to keep your loop open. That is the most important thing is having an open loop when you are roping. So when you are practicing at home, just practice coming around with your hand and kissing your hand every time whenever you are coming around. That really over does it quite a bit but the principal is keeping your loop really opened. Whenever you are throwing a head loop, you come out of the box whenever your horse's shoulder is parallel to the steers hip, you will be on the left side of the steer. You start swinging your rope as you are riding up to the steer and then as your head horse gets right to the steer where his shoulder is parallel with the steers hip, you deliver your loop. Swinging the head rope, you are swinging out here in front and kind of pulling it towards your target and when you get to your delivery point, you just release and point your finger at at the steers right horn and this will send your rope around your right to left motion will naturally send the rope around the steers horns. So when you deliver, it is very important to really enthuse the follow through of the rope there as you are coming to the horns there. So you swing your rope out here in the front, aim right at your target and then right at your delivery you throw right at the base of that right horn and like I said, the right to left flow of the loop will just naturally kind of zing it around the horns there and that is how you throw a head loop. "