Innehållsförteckning för Extra August 2021 från The Team Roping Journal

PRIORITIZE YOUR BODY I work out a lot, and I work on my core intentionally. That plays a big role in getting to the front of the saddle when I leave the box—something that is absolutely critical at every level of breakaway roping and especially as breakaway roping gets so tough at the top. WORKOUT REGIMEN First, I do a lot of planking. A plank means I’ve got my hands or elbows flat on the floor, shoulder width apart, with my back straight, my core engaged and my legs and feet straight out behind me. I hold this position in different intervals, and in that position I’m working all of my stomach muscles from my lower and upper abs to my obliques and my back—all critical in getting to the…

In the last issue, we talked about the grip and how important holding your rope in the tips of your fingers is to controlling the swing. If you missed that, you can find it on breakawayropingjournal.com. This issue, we’re going to break down the elements of a successful swing in breakaway roping. THE CONCEPT I think of a propeller when I swing the rope. There are four blades to the swing, just as there are blades on a propeller. The blades are the tip, and the motor in the middle is my arm, doing the same motions quickly, but the blades take longer to come around. I have to have speed and strength in my arm and shoulder, just like a motor, to add the momentum to the blades.› THE…

This was the inaugural summer that a mind-boggling number of lucrative PRCA rodeos added breakaway. For all those gals who rope and have never been barrel racers, this was a new frontier. They could hardly not think of competing at places they never dreamed they could enter, from Cody, Wyoming, to Prescott, Arizona. Plus, that proverbial carrot—a possible chance to rope in Las Vegas in December—weighed heavily on women for whom it was never before possible. The irony, of course, is that because the opportunity to rodeo at full tilt didn’t exist until this summer, these same women have already spent their adult lives in pursuit of attainable goals with their families and/or careers. The shift begs the question: How did ropers with kids and/or careers juggle the temptation and…