ProRodeo Sports News - August 6, 2021

EQUIPMENT REVOLUTION

Over the course Team roping ropes have changed dramatically over past 25 years Core Changes PRCA ProRodeo photo by Greg Westfall Trevor Brazile, who has won a PRCA-record 26 world championships, including as a team roping header in 2010, has seen first-hand how team roping ropes have changed since his rookie year in 1996.

BY TRACY RENCK W hen Trevor Brazile entered the PRCA as a rookie in 1996, he was finding his way in steer roping, tie- down roping and team roping. Over the last quarter century, Brazile experienced – and adapted to – the rapid pace of modern technology changing team roping ropes. As a rookie team roping header, Brazile was using the latest and greatest rope at the time. “When I first started roping, we were using what they called aged nylons, which were a brown color and they came in 600-foot rolls, and different rope companies would get those rolls and tie eyes in them and they would have different ways in which they did it,” Brazile said. “Some would stretch the 600-foot rope singularly and then some would cut them up and stretch them individually.”

of his illustrious career – one that will no doubt land him

in the ProRodeo Hall of Fame – Brazile saw that style of rope come and go, along with plenty of others as technology modernized the team roping rope. KING OF COWBOYS TALKS CHANGE To understand the exponential changes and progress in team roping, who better to lean on than Brazile. The all-around cowboy has been using Cactus Ropes since 2007. Of his PRCA-record 26 gold buckles, 14 came while he was using Cactus Ropes. He won a PRCA-record 14 in all-around (2002-04, 2006-15, 2018), eight in steer roping (2006-07, 2011, 2013-15, 2019-20), three in tie-down roping (2007, 2009-10) and one in team roping (2010). Already in 2021, two sets of team ropers – Clay Smith and Jade

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