1 Scoring is obviously a big, big deal to me. You need to keep even pressure without sending mixed signals to your horse. Your horse can only score as good as you do, so you have to have the patience to sit there and not move your hand or send messages with body language. A lot of people don’t move their hand but they start leaning forward, which tells the horse they’re ready to go. However you start, you want your horse to stay there until you drop your hand.
2 Once you start, you need to stay in your lane, keeping from getting too close behind or too wide, just staying exactly the same distance, width-wise from the steer the whole run. Team roping is a game of percentages,…