Indholdsfortegnelse for Travis Tryan i The Team Roping Journal

CS: What is your life-after-rodeo career? TT: I do a lot of roping schools and produce ropings with the Wrangler Team Roping Championships. I’ve got some trucks in the oilfield, too. A good friend of ours, Shane Johnson, showed us how that business works, and there was good opportunity to do that. CS: What are your roping schools like? TT: I’ve been doing a lot of them in Wyoming. I do a couple in Montana, too. I just do them up north, really. I focus on getting the fundamentals down and having fun with it. I don’t overcomplicate things. The one thing I know that helps your catch percentage is getting into a great position on the steer. We’ve been having good results with the schools. I put them on…

Travis Tryan crossed the $1 million career team roping earnings milestone during the 2009 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. Appropriately, he was aboard his bay best friend, Walt, the reigning and four-time Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association/American Quarter Horse Association Head Horse of the Year, when he did it. Travis rode Walt at all nine of his NFRs (2001–2009). Brother Clay rode him at NFR ’01, too, which also was his first. The only time Tryan stepped off of Walt at the NFR in all those years was for five rounds at the 2005 Finals, where he rode him in Rounds 1 and 2, and Rounds 8 through 10, after getting on Gold Digger in the others. Trevor Brazile subbed in for Jake Barnes after he lost his thumb in the fifth…

If you can be consistent and do the right thing over and over again, and pattern your horse to go to a spot, it makes it easier for you to rope. It makes it easier for you to set the run up to handle the steer and, in turn, that gives your heeler confidence to know what’s coming. If you do the right thing over and over again, your heeler is going to feed off of that, catch more and throw faster, and get confidence in you and in the run. If you keep making that run over and over again, all of a sudden it doesn’t matter where you are or what kind of money is up, you’re confident because your horse is so patterned to do the right…

1 That steer was moving pretty fast across there. It’s a normal shot—my top strand is a little lower than I would want it—my horse is stopping and the steer was strong. There’s nothing unusual about this shot. When I threw, I’m was looking at my loop and the steer jumping into my loop. I was waiting for that to happen before I pulled my slack. You want to leave the loop on the ground as long as you can. My hand is ready to pull my slack as soon as I see it. By the next frame, I’ll be started up with my slack to dally. My horse is working good, my loop looks good and everything is coming together just right. 2 We had a steer that ducked…