GOING AT IT WITH FOCUS, FIRE AND INTENSITY

By Clay O'Brien Cooper with Kendra Santos

Jake (Barnes) and I entered the rodeo in Salinas (California) this summer, and watching the cowboys who are out there roping right now wowed me and took me back. For starters, guys like Wesley Thorp, Junior Nogueira and Levi Lord made some really terrific heel shots in the first round. What amazed me was their intensity, and the physicality of their roping. They’re young and strong, and they went at their shots with everything. Watching the young ropers of today took me back to my 20s and 30s. The way they go at it now is how I went at it at their age also. Salinas is the perfect place to take note of all this, because we run fast, strong cattle over the 35-foot longest scoreline in rodeo there. We had…

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The Team Roping Journal (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2022

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