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<blockquote data-quote="Farm Fence Solutions" data-source="post: 1451740" data-attributes="member: 26621"><p>In my experience, it's quality over quantity. My college rodeo coach's family fell on hard times when he was a young teenager. He was a talented bull rider, and even better calf roper and team roper. They had to board the horses quite a ways away from the town where they had to settle in for over a year, and no money to practice or enter in that time. His mother had him to make 50 perfect rides, and 50 perfect runs....EVERY night....in his head. The next year, after they had healed up, he won something crazy like $30k and 75 buckles....back when it was hard to win a buckle. I still use that method to this day, and it works. </p><p>As far as quality physical practice goes, the growth of my roping skills was fairly stagnant until I moved in with Brian Fulton. It wasn't a hard line "rule", but pretty much accepted that you didn't rope more than 3 on your good horse in a day. There were plenty of practice horses around to run as many as you liked, but the runs on your good horse were to be reserved for keeping the horse in tune, not the cowboy. For every calf I got to rope and tie down, I probably tied 25 from the post, scored 50, breakaway or knot rope a couple dozen, and it was the same for the steer wrestlers.....lots of chute dogging. Also, I was surrounded by cowboys that were good. Really, really, really good. I had some pretty good horsepower, and just enough skill to draw a check once in a while. The guys I rodeoed with drew a check at nearly every show. I guess my point with this is, the human involved needs lots of repetition with quality instruction. Lots of repetition is not always great for the stick you are hauling on the weekends. </p><p></p><p>Bigfoot, if you and I golf together every day, we will get a little better. If Rory McIlroy goes with us, we will get a lot better. My first big improvement came when Ronnie Hyde let me in his truck when I was a kid. Get those kids away from the house and in a pen where they don't have much chance of winning.(Same reason the 10 year old is better than the twins at the same age.....think Tuff Cooper) They will improve quickly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Farm Fence Solutions, post: 1451740, member: 26621"] In my experience, it's quality over quantity. My college rodeo coach's family fell on hard times when he was a young teenager. He was a talented bull rider, and even better calf roper and team roper. They had to board the horses quite a ways away from the town where they had to settle in for over a year, and no money to practice or enter in that time. His mother had him to make 50 perfect rides, and 50 perfect runs....EVERY night....in his head. The next year, after they had healed up, he won something crazy like $30k and 75 buckles....back when it was hard to win a buckle. I still use that method to this day, and it works. As far as quality physical practice goes, the growth of my roping skills was fairly stagnant until I moved in with Brian Fulton. It wasn't a hard line "rule", but pretty much accepted that you didn't rope more than 3 on your good horse in a day. There were plenty of practice horses around to run as many as you liked, but the runs on your good horse were to be reserved for keeping the horse in tune, not the cowboy. For every calf I got to rope and tie down, I probably tied 25 from the post, scored 50, breakaway or knot rope a couple dozen, and it was the same for the steer wrestlers.....lots of chute dogging. Also, I was surrounded by cowboys that were good. Really, really, really good. I had some pretty good horsepower, and just enough skill to draw a check once in a while. The guys I rodeoed with drew a check at nearly every show. I guess my point with this is, the human involved needs lots of repetition with quality instruction. Lots of repetition is not always great for the stick you are hauling on the weekends. Bigfoot, if you and I golf together every day, we will get a little better. If Rory McIlroy goes with us, we will get a lot better. My first big improvement came when Ronnie Hyde let me in his truck when I was a kid. Get those kids away from the house and in a pen where they don't have much chance of winning.(Same reason the 10 year old is better than the twins at the same age.....think Tuff Cooper) They will improve quickly. [/QUOTE]
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