![]() The ones who are the easiest to teach are the ones who say, ‘No, I’m going to this beginner clinic and I’m not even going to pick up a rope and learn any bad habits.’ Those are the easy fixes. The students who run into the biggest problems are the ones who have been swinging a rope for two or three months trying to get prepared for it. “The thing that is hard for all of us is change. “Prepare yourself to be open-minded,” he said. If you’re not a beginner, Harris’s best advice for one of his clinics or anyone’s clinics is to approach the situation ready to learn. “I’m to the point now where people ask me to rope with them. I’ve been offered more than I gave for them several times. They were smart enough to tell me that I was only as good as my mount. From David Isham on down, they take the student at the speed they need to go. They bring people along at the speed they need to go. “I felt like I got the most honest responses from them. “They set up a plan based specifically for me,” he said. When Sheppard started, he was so bad he had to pay entry fees for himself and his partner in order to compete at the local ropings. Gerry Sheppard, from Norman, Okla., was also a true beginner who cut his teeth at the NRS facility and went on to develop a long-standing relationship with Krece. “As far as what’s going on here, it’s amazing to me with everybody carrying on about the economy, we haven’t seen it yet.” “Private lessons are up and horse sales are up and clinics are up,” Harris said. The beginner clinics are the most popular-usually selling out for the entire year by February. He can give four private lessons each day, however, most days it’s just two. ![]() Harris limits the clinic participants to 14-15 students at most. We can break it down to the level of being a true beginning and that same method of teaching goes all the way to a pro-level roper.” That’s what keeps this deal going in my opinion. Working hand in hand with Walt Woodard and Tyler Magnus like we have over the years, we’re going to teach the fundamentally correct swing and past that we’re going to teach the fundamental basics of horsemanship. More and more we’re seeing people who can pick up a rope and swing it, the problem is not being able to sit in the middle of the horse’s back and still be able to swing their rope. We’re probably more geared toward that than anything: how a person rides their horse. Number one, being able to ride position on your horse. Whenever you run into road blocks, you have to go back to the fundamentals and the basics. “It doesn’t matter who we’re teaching, whether a true beginner comes in here or an advanced roper comes in here, you’re always teaching fundamentals and basics,” he said. Harris’s teaching philosophy is pretty simple and, he says, applicable to just about everyone who darkens the Training Center’s doors. I am an educator and I’m aware that not everyone who is good at something is good at teaching something, but Krece is.” I have taken several private lessons with Krece and his staff. “I have been to two of Krece’s clinics and I’ve also been to the Walt Woodard clinic. “I can’t say enough good things about them,” she said. As the Dean of Students at Dental Schools of San Antonio, she knows a little something about teaching. Denee Thomas from San Antonio, had ridden horses most of her life, but came to roping later. Krece Harris is the NRS Training Center Events Director, a job that requires him to host clinics and share his roping expertise. The facility has everything you’d expect, a big, nice covered arena, stalls, trailer hook-ups, cattle and bunkhouses in which to stay.īut when it comes right down to it, the real product they’re selling is their expertise. This concept originated with David Isham and the National Ropers Supply Training Center in Decatur, Texas. One of the more recent trends is the roping camp, where students can spend an extended, intensive training session at a facility with some luxurious extras. More professional cowboys-looking to either avoid the road altogether or offset the rising fuel prices-are offering clinics. As the recreational team roping industry continues to grow steadily, so does the roping school scene.
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