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Inside the Practice Pen
What a productive weekly practice actually looks like.
Editorial StaffJul 8, 20266 min read
Inside the Practice Pen — featured photograph
Most practice pens run too many steers too fast. The athletes get tired, the cattle get sour, and nobody leaves better than they arrived.
The pens that produce competitors tend to share a few habits: a fixed run count per person, a hazer who is treated as part of the training rather than an afterthought, and someone filming every run.
Cattle management matters as much as anything. A set of steers that has been run hard will teach a young athlete the wrong lesson about what a steer does.
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Practice pen
Cattle set
Filming setup
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