Indholdsfortegnelse for Charly Crawford i The Team Roping Journal

Charly Crawford has qualified for nine National Finals Rodeos, starting with his first in 2005. But since his last trip to the Finals in 2017 (with heeling phenom Joseph Harrison), Crawford’s been relatively quiet on the rodeo road. In 2018, he finished 31st in the world standings and, in 2019, he was 33rd . But in 2020, Crawford is on a mission. A father to 3-year-old Creed and 16-year-old Kaydence, Crawford is looking toward a future after rodeo. He said early in the season that 2020 would be a final push, a chance to prove to himself that he could, in fact, still make the Finals. The result? With few rodeos left on the schedule, Crawford and his partner—two-time College National Finals Champion Logan Medlin—are well inside the top 15…

KS: Talk to me about Aug. 14, 2014. CC: We’d come off of a great couple weeks. I’d given Patron some time off after Cheyenne, and he came back better than ever. It felt easy again, like we were peaked out going into the fourth quarter. Patron was breathing fire and hitting on all cylinders. As soon as we got done roping our first steer at Canby, I unsaddled him and washed him off. He started pawing and acting like he wanted to roll, which he does. I tied him up and he kept pawing. The rodeo’s vet, Dr. Solomon, who works on my horses all the time when we’re up there, drove by right then. He gave him something to help relax him. I walked him around about 20…

When you get older and you need that extra motivation, you’ve got to start looking for things that motivate you. One of the things that has always motivated me is the fear of failure. I hate failure, and I’ve always kind of had a chip on my shoulder that I use as motivation to do all the little things that nobody wants to do. It takes those little things, though, to really be great. One year, I was paying my entry fees and had no idea how much I had won because I wasn’t in the top 50 listed on ProRodeo.com. I got on my PRCA account online, and it showed I was 63rd in the world. So I put that on my morning alarm—just the number 63. If seeing…

Lately, I’ve been giving a lot of lessons about keeping the rope tight from the steer’s horn to the saddle horn so that a header can lead the steer anywhere he or she needs to from the corner. Whether you’re trying to win the world title or the Ariat World Series of Team Roping Finale, this is really something worth mastering. 1 The process of making sure your rope is tight between the steer’s horns and the saddle horn starts at the throw. It’s important that I’m roping on the way to the steer, throwing on my way to position. That way, when I’m pulling my slack, I’m collecting my horse at the same time. That’s when he’s going slower than the steer, and that’s what allows him to get…