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Date Posted: 11:22:03 01/08/09 Thu
Author: Hap
Subject: Varmit, a couple of coaching questions.

We got our grand daughters ropes and a dummy calf head for Christmas and I've been helping them get started. Mostly up to this point just showing them how to build a loop and swing it and coil it up, things like that, just the basics.Like most kids I have to remind them not to pull their slack with their coils but that's a tough one for them to remember.
Is there anything they need to learn that helps make the figure eight after the loop is around the calf's neck? Is it pretty much a thing where they need to grow some and throw harder? One is 7 and the other is nearly 4 and I'd like for them not to take up bad habits from the beginning, but do understand it needs to be a fun thing at the same time.
Also, ain't there an approach to walking up on the dummy that they're suppose to learn?
The 7 year old is real coachable and I taught her to ride a pogo stick last week and by the next day she called me and had bounced 128 times without falling off. The day after that, she went over 300 times and now it's a matter of quitting when she gets tired.

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The part of getting the figure eight is easier done when roping on a horse. It comes about more easily because of the tip and angle of the loop. When your on a horse you lean forward your upper body to rope and that helps with the figure eight. So if they lean forward with their upper body when roping a dummie it should help with the figure eight part. Dummies are good for learning the basics, but I never liked them because they make you top head to many calves. Once they learn to throw, I would suggest letting them rope the dummie off of a nice gentle horse to let them get use to the angle. Its much easier in my opinion to rope a calf off of a horse then on the ground. Letting walk up as if they were running up on a calf with a horse is good, but wouldn't worry about that to much until they learn the basics. When I got to missing a bunch of calves the one thing that worked was to stand up in the saddle and let your belt buckle touch the saddle horn when you throwed your loop. (NT) -- Varmit, 14:59:42 01/08/09 Thu
- Sounds good. Thanks. (NT) -- Hap, 18:39:03 01/08/09 Thu

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