Find a Rodeo Roping Partner

Video Transcript

"This is Randall Powell with Expert Village and in this clip I am going to talk to you about partner selection in team roping. Generally whenever you go to a team roping, you have to have a partner. It is good to rope with a guy that you practice with frequently. If you have a guy that comes out to your house everyday or you go over to his house and rope a couple of times a week, anything like that, you want to take him to the roping and rope with him just because you guys know what the other one is going to do. You also have to choose your partner according to the number of roping you are going to get in. Like if there is a number 11 roping and you are a 6, you have to find a partner that is number 5 or a 4 or anything underneath that but you can't go over the roping. Like it is an 11 roping and you are a 6, you can't rope with a 6 header or heeler or anything above that number because it would put you out of that roping. Partner selection is also important. Like you can go to roping and watch people rope. If you see you like the way they rope, you are a heeler and you like the way that they handle their cattle and how fast they come out and rope, that would be a partner you would want to go up to and ask him if he would like to rope. You usually can get in roping's as many times as you want with as many partners as you want. You just have to keep your partners down, keep your runs down to where you won't wear your horse out in the roping's. You have like 4 runs to do in the roping. "