by Miriam Lucero T


rey Johnson, you’re a Champion Team Roper, and an instructor that hosts roping clinics across the coun- try. Teaching kids, adults and women over 55 years old how to rope! What are some of the first steps in teaching


roping? How are the women responding? Any dif- ference from teaching men? I have done a lot of camps, a lot of schools and really the all-girls school, or camps, and really the women are a lot easier to teach than men. They are a lot more teachable, they don’t have the pride and ego (most of the time) Lol! They’re willing to learn, willing to try new things, where sometimes the men they want to tell you everything they know already. I really enjoy teaching women. Like Judy for example, what a breath of fresh air she was at the school In North Carolina that she came to. Her willing- ness, she was so positive, so thankful, and she just made great progress. When I do the schools I start from the very beginning of when they get a rope off of the shelf and they untie off the twisty ties and I show them how to stretch the rope, how to coil their rope up, (and) how to have a balanced loop. From the size of their coils, to the distance between their hands, to the size of their loop. And that’s where we begin.


Trey, you have some special techniques that you teach, and you’re teaching Judy (student) over 55 years how to rope? What techniques are you teach- ing Judy, and how is the relationship developing in roping for Judy and you? Well Judy is such a sweet lady, and we had talked about me possibly going out to Florida with a group of her friends and doing a school out there. Actually, she just sent a video of her swing last night just to see how her swing is developing. You know she started out with a little bit stiffer rope, and we’ve got a little softer rope, where it’s easier for her to swing, where her arm doesn’t get as tired. And it will help her with the placement of her loop. Some of the main points


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