Ever since I can remember I have been around the horse world. I have spent many May Long weekends at our local rodeo hosted in Mount Currie, where I watched many of my friends participant and hoped that one day I could be just like them. I spent years doing riding lessons where I learnt how to run barrel patterns but I never went on to compete. Later on, I participated in the English horse world where I practiced and competed in show jumping. Although it was a lot of fun and I learnt so much, I also learnt that was show jumping was just not for me. In the last four years, I got back into the western side of the horse world and more specifically this year, I was able to spend my summer learning and watching more rodeos. Thanks to my boss, I also was given the opportunity to focus on learning to breakaway rope.
Here is a video of me and my horse first time attempting to rope a chair.
Here is a video of us practicing with a chair a few weeks later.
For the first month or so I practiced with a chair until we invested in a steer head dummy which sticks into a hay bale. This was more realistic to practice with.
Here is a video I made involving the rodeos I was able to attend this summer.