The Team Roping Journal

WINNING WHEN YOU'RE DOWN

oping for a living is kind of an ebb-and-flow process of peaks and valleys. It's nice when you get on a roll, and ride that roll. I've ridden rolls for a year, when it seemed like roping was easy, and I didn't even have to think about the process that much. Everything was just working, and I was winning, winning, winning. But that's not always the case, and sometimes you hit a lull. At the bottom

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