The Team Roping Journal

Team Roping Journal educates and entertains readers who actively participate in the sport. We help you to obtain the best results with step-by-step instruction in how to perform at a higher level and win more often. After all, we all know that while the heart is in the land and on the ranch, the ego is alive and well when it comes to besting your friends in the arena.

Dear Roper

NEITHER WOOD I

BC MEMORIAL • Chad Masters and Trey Yates won the 2023 Broc Cresta Memorial in Cottonwood, California, April 18, roping six steers in 44.32 seconds, worth $16,000 per man. The roping pays homage to Cresta, the NFR heeler who passed away at the Cheyenne Frontier Days in July 2012, with proceeds of the roping benefiting the Broc Cresta Memorial Scholarship Fund. Crystal Amen Photography

SUPER QUALIFIERS • Austin Kropf and Alfonso Gonzales won the #12.5 Ariat World Series of Team Roping Super Qualifier in Athens, Texas, April 7, roping four steers in 36.25 seconds, worth $16,950 and spots at the South Point in December in Las Vegas at the Ariat World Series of Team Roping Finale. Andersen/CBarC Photography

ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION • UNITED STATES TEAM ROPING CHAMPIONSHIPS WELCOMES THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION AS THE OFFICIAL WILDLIFE CONSERVATION GROUP

WHAT IS THE RIATA BUCKLE'S EARNINGS BONUS PROGRAM AND HOW DOES IT WORK?

PLAYING BY FAITH AND FATE: BEGAY AND TODD TAKE THE TITLE AT LOGANDALE

WARD AND HAWKINS TAKE THE RED BLUFF ROUND-UP WIN

| At the Barrier | new products

(At Home With) • Tyson Thompson grew up in tiny Munday, Texas, about an hour north of Abilene. Between the Thompson Ranch winning it all at the RodeoHouston Ranch Rodeo in March, and Tyson winning the BFI behind Curry Kirchner in April, the 26-year-old ranch and rodeo cowboy is having a big-time breakthrough season in 2023.

GETTING SET FOR GO-TIME

THE ART OF TIMING STEERS

HATS OFF TO WESTERN ORIGINAL CHARLIE MAGGINI • From the 2005 Spin To Win Rodeo archives, a look back at a team roping legend.

CALL SIGN 2.0: PHOENIX • Idaho roper Todd Hornbuckle had a brilliant career as an Air Force and Navy pilot before a failed engine in 2016 forced an emergency landing in Texas Hill Country with his daughter aboard. She survived unscathed while Hornbuckle suffered severe, life-altering burns. Now, his roping is helping him rise from the wreckage.

5 FLAT with Travis Graves • 5 flat|Brazile|freeze frame|fix it|bit junkie|next level|videos|horsepower

A BLUEPRINT FOR LONGEVITY • Trevor Brazile's Wishbone has outlasted the test of team roping time.

Freeze Frame

Fix-It: Right Lead Dominant Green Horses • You've heard Trevor Brazile say that right-leaded head horses are dangerous. Here's how we address the issue early on in the Relentless Remuda program.

J.C. Yeahquo's Jerry Braziel Heavy Chain Gag

Next Level with Kollin VonAhn

Calf Roping on Roping.com • Tune up your tie-down with new series on Roping.com.

CORY PETSKA'S BELOVED BEST-EVER, ANNIE

CAN I GET A RERUN? • What you need to know about getting a rerun, before you need to know it.

GOOD TO KNOW

RE-RELEASED • Seemingly, the hands of time had left the documented history of roping behind, trapped in VHS and DVD format, but no longer. The Rodeo Video content that ran through yesteryear is back.

LIVING LEGENDS BUILD THEIR PERFECT TEAM ROPER • All my life I've heard my ranch-raised, horse-doctor, timed-event cowboy dad say that if he could only take this horse's mind and put it in that horse's body, he'd have the perfect rope horse. That got me thinking that it might be fun to ask a few hall-of-fame team roper types to apply that same thought process to the concept of building the perfect team roper. I asked...