The Team Roping Journal

Some of Us Learn in a Different Way

Have you asked yourself why some people rise relatively fast in the handicap system, and when we see them rope, they give the impression that roping is easier than it really is?

An ongoing training program and the supervision of an expert are the main reasons, but there is something rarely spoken about that can be the answer to all of our roping problems. That something is the fact that most of these people possess a higher level of natural coordination.

A small fraction of the population is born with a higher evident level of coordination. If we jog our memory back to our school days, those people were always very handy at playing sports because they had the ability to move their feet and both hands. As related to team roping, those same naturally coordinated people can

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