A Cajun named Jackie was the best ranch/working pen roper I have ever seen. I'm 72. Jackie roped with my dad. He was the only paid cowboy to work our cattle. I hired him every spring to stand in the sorting gate with his buckskin "Buck" to hold the calves and let the cows go. Buck would jam any calf. Buck knew the game. Jackie is near 90 years old now. He had polio in one leg and stuffs socks in the bottom of that boot. He has a million cowboy stories that he could tell in Cajun French or in English. He always has a unlit cigar. His grandfather is pictured in coffee table books as one of the first cowboys on our SW Louisiana prairie. Jack NEVER swung his rope. He would "flip" it left or right. Forward or backwards. I have never seen him miss. Not once. We all dally, but Jackie was tied off hard and fast. I asked him about that. "Jackie what if you got to rope a bull?" He pulled a razor sharp knife from his back pocket. "I got this," he smiled. When the sorting and the pen roping was done Jackie would leave before the shoot-work began. He wouldn't do shoot-work. When he dismounted, Buck was loaded and Jackie would leave. He always say, "Boys! I got to go see a man about a horse!" Then he'd drive off. Jackie cowboyed for sale barns and individual ranchers in the prairies and in the gulf coast marshes. I want to stress practicing roping the right way, the safe way, on the ground, and on a horse with a dummy before you catch something that could hurt you. And practice with a real roper. A cowboy who can tell you what your doing wrong. I regret healing a big steer for a beginner header who dallied with his thumb down. A wrap cut his thumb off. We packed his thumb in ice and sent both of them to New Orleans. The roper lived for months with his right thumb sewed to his belly. This guy had roped tie down calves all his life but never headed. He shouldn't have been in the roping pen steer roping. Count on hundreds or thousands of hour to learn right and to be automatic with your swing, slack, and dally. Don't ride no dink, either. They will get you in a jam. And don't drink and think you can cowboy. You'll get hurt and hurt someone you love. sorry for the lecture. I've been to a few funerals. stay safe.

This feels like a skill I'll use later in life, I've seen it used quietly in marine boat-to-harbor ties and it looked downright magical

The vaquero traditions continue on !!🇲🇽

Love the narration and I agree with you when you say "to do it in a minimally stress full way"

I'm just learning to rope and i have a huge respect for these guys. Let me just say its not as easy as it looks!

Every free minute spent roping bales and saw-horses with the standard throws and then played around with ocean waves, butterflies and lyndseys. A few times a year not a word said between any of us in the branding pen and after having competitions back on the dummy to see who could muley, horn, heel and figure eight between the horns while we took turns chanting 1 guerrilla, 2 guerrilla etc. as a stopwatch. Poly's, nylons and back when I started grass magueys that I got from Lorne Wells were the tools and always on the lookout for that perfect used heading rope for calves at brandings.

Roping has indeed changed or evolved a lot ever since the vaqueros came to what is now the American southwest. Most roping shot used today were actually invented in the late 19th to early 20th century in Mexico. Roping during the 18th century was actually very rudimentary, where old tools like the hocking knife were still used in conjunction with roping. At that time there was no team roping; there was also no fancy roping. In Some areas in Mexico, like Veracruz, vaqueros were still tying their lassos to their horse’s tail, since not everyone had adopted the vaquero saddle with a horn. So yeah, roping has indeed changed.

God this channel should have more subscribers.

Loved this. Worded perfectly. Loved the left handed cowboy. 🤠 thank you for sharing this.

Thank you.

Brent Rowan , one of the contemporary Guitar greats strumming the back-ground music. kenxqed♫

American cowboys/historians are reluctant to say "Mexico" when it comes to the vaqueros ...they always say "Spanish" . respect to this man for saying it like it is. good roping amigo!

Beautiful.

I love this all!

They do it old school

i love this video

VIVA MEXICO LA TIERRA DE LOS VAQUEROS 🇲🇽 M X 🇲🇽🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵

I wish I was like these men. Most my family even my dad grew up on farms and ranches doing this stuff. Wish I did, but I have to live in the city :/ still wear cowboy boots and dress how I would living there and living up to that as much as possibly though. They also grew up in the backwoods which i kinda wish I did too haha

that looks a good quality rope for me

Beautiful

This is totally different than roping in a rodeo where the calf is deliberately stressed before exiting the chute and then pulled to a full stop fro approx 50 km an hour then picked up dumped on the ground and hog tied.

what kind ropes are those and were can I get one

Hermosa profesion me encantaria poder hacerla

Please where can I buy such a rope

Is anyone else waiting on SHARK to comment how they are “abusing” everything😂🙄.As a cowboy, I love how he explains roping, you don’t try to cause a ton of stress, get the job done and get out

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Boa tarde sou brasileiro cawboy e estou me organizando para ir para o Canadá tenho interesse em trabalhar em rancho com horse sou laçador se alguém puder me ajudar

Yo mededico a eso

If I see anything about animal abuse in the comments I'll freak out

You say the way that you rope today hasn't changed from the way the old vaqueros roped! Wrong! The vaqueros could throw a figure 8 on the front feet, a regular front foot catch, called a mangana, rear feet called piales, or a figure 8 catching the head and the front feet. Also a figure 8 catching the front & rear feet! They had many other different throws depending on the circumstances. Manuel Romero used a straight underhand throw to rope an eagle from horseback in a rodeo in Tucson in 1934! I was taught that throw by my uncles in 1950! That same throw was used by Texas Vaqueros to rope and drag a Texas Ranger to death! They used that same throw to rope a pistol or rifle from the invading Americans' hands! Luciano Martinez

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This gives me idea for new game on ps5

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and art taught By mexicans the real Cowboys never forget We are the real cowboys

fast back ropes are the only way to go.

puro gringo aquí

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The reason he probably he didnt get t o carry an iphone or a videogame was because they didnt exist yet.

How he dragged tht cow was funny asf lowkey

Obviously he didn’t carry an iPhone... they weren’t around when he was a kid. 🤦🏼‍♂️

Sorry, but no. Roping is not creating art nor craft, roping is a skill and like any other skill it is learned through correct technique and lots of practice. Art is recognized as an original expression without any practical use .... think Da Vinci's famous mural painting of the "Last Supper" housed in the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria della Grazie in Milan, Italy and craft is the production of a useful object or item .... think Anasazi pottery excavated at Mesa Verde National Park. Roping is a skill.

Beautiful