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.
Wow. I loved your story! It was like reading a Will James novel. Your comment is a year old so I don't know if you'll see mine. I just subscribed to this channel. Thanks for sharing your life. 🇺🇲
@@jasona.palmer6993 Roman’s 10:9-10 “That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. ”
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.
Isabel larson it’s like anything you want to be good at the more you practice the better you get, and it’s better to practice when you are not at a roping/branding because you don’t put so much pressure on yourself to catch everything you throw at, I roped pails, posts, trees, dogs, cats and so on when I was a kid playing with my rope and it paid off big for being able to make fast tight shots and catch more than I miss lol
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.
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!
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
I’m in the same exact boat. My dad and his siblings were raised working with cattle and making leather saddles with my grandfather. My grandfather sold everything off before I was born and I grew up in a suburb. I’m wearing cowboy boots in the middle of the city, watching ranching videos, and dreaming of bigger skies. BUT, my dad did pass down the work ethic that they had to learn, so in a way, I am benefitting from the cowboy lifestyle. So, that’s something I guess.
@@RanchlandsReview i’d love to be taught by yall if possible… im 17 and i’ve been practicing roping for the last id say about 6 months and my grandpa says im a natural but i know that its different on a live animal! Maybe would could do an apprenticeship type thing, dont know if any of yall have the time for it though
@@vtr2690 next time, and for anyone reading in the future, don't write unless it's to an address. turning up in person as a young bloke with a sparkle in your eye will get you so many doors open
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
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.
i dont mean to be so off topic but does any of you know of a trick to get back into an instagram account? I stupidly forgot my login password. I would appreciate any help you can offer me!
Camilla Johansson! Obviously you have never ran a chute nor worked cattle in one! I have seen way more cattle sore after being worked in a chute then ever have being roped and drug to a fire! Please inform your ignorance and maybe you will understand that your view and idea of compassion for an animal kills much faster then it cures! I respect your opinion and will listen to it but people like yourself will not inform nor are willing to listen to anyone else!
Camilla Johansson.... also running them through a chute requires sorting calves from cows to do so! With 500 pair just heeling and dragging, you would be lucky to brand 100 hd an hour if you had the help to do so. Do the math. Now sort calves off cows then run through chute? Branding , cutting, and vaccinating! Your talking like separation from cow for no doubt 9? 10? Hell I‘ll just say 12 hours in my experience cattle work! Now you re-think just a little how stressed that calf is now after 12 hours verses 2 minutes or less? That’s what I meant before inform yourself! Ignorance in Compassion is torture in its self way beyond anything they experience otherwise!
Camilla Johansson you apparently no exactly shit about livestock. Close your mouth, open you ears, rewatch the video and you might just learn something
The Mexicans that I know that ARE cowboys couldn’t care less. The only Mexicans that seem too are the ones that couldn’t rope their foot if someone held it steady for them, much less ride a horse. Might want to put some salve on that butthurt.
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
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
The Anglo only learned 1 technique from the Mexican vaquero, just enough to do the work. The Charro roping technique (Floreo de la reata) is a piece of art and elegance.
What are you going on about? We still use a lot of those shots. I use the figure 8 all the time but I sure don’t need to figure 8 a calf at a branding. Nor would I front foot a calf at a branding. If I was branding horses I would. It’s all about using whatever fits the situation. The brandings I go to, you’ll see a lot of guys throwing Del Vientos, hoolihans and underhand or scoop shots.
amy karr more like “most practical and proficient method” appropriation. Much of the style of the way we do things started on the Iberian peninsula with Portugal and Spain. Since I’m part Portuguese we could say a re-appropriated some of my own culture back.
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.
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 comment is amazing... the fact that something seen as so easy in cartoons actually take long hours and is a work of art from an expert.
This is a fantastic story. What a privilege to know that man.
Wow. I loved your story! It was like reading a Will James novel. Your comment is a year old so I don't know if you'll see mine. I just subscribed to this channel.
Thanks for sharing your life. 🇺🇲
@@echomarket3125 Thanks. Jackie's still going strong.
I'm just getting started roping in south Louisiana and this story hit hard
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 !!🇲🇽
VIVA MEXICO LA TIERRA DE LOS VAQUEROS
🇲🇽 M X 🇲🇽 🌵🌵🌵
@@jasona.palmer6993 Roman’s 10:9-10
“That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. ”
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.
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!
Isabel larson it is if you have a good teacher and then lots of practice
@@henryhenry3832 I'm starting to get the hang of it now. Your right haha
Isabel larson it’s like anything you want to be good at the more you practice the better you get, and it’s better to practice when you are not at a roping/branding because you don’t put so much pressure on yourself to catch everything you throw at, I roped pails, posts, trees, dogs, cats and so on when I was a kid playing with my rope and it paid off big for being able to make fast tight shots and catch more than I miss lol
@@henryhenry3832 hey dogs are great tragets ngl thanks for the advice !
I don't think it looks easy. If it's harder than it looks, that says something.
Love the narration and I agree with you when you say "to do it in a minimally stress full way"
VIVA MEXICO LA TIERRA DE LOS VAQUEROS
🇲🇽 M X 🇲🇽 🌵🌵🌵
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.
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!
God this channel should have more subscribers.
VIVA MEXICO LA TIERRA DE LOS VAQUEROS
🇲🇽 M X 🇲🇽 🌵🌵🌵
Loved this. Worded perfectly. Loved the left handed cowboy. 🤠 thank you for sharing this.
P astor
Brent Rowan , one of the contemporary Guitar greats strumming the back-ground music. kenxqed♫
What song name I need to learn it on guitar
They do it old school
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
it's never too late to live it for yourself!
I’m in the same exact boat. My dad and his siblings were raised working with cattle and making leather saddles with my grandfather. My grandfather sold everything off before I was born and I grew up in a suburb. I’m wearing cowboy boots in the middle of the city, watching ranching videos, and dreaming of bigger skies. BUT, my dad did pass down the work ethic that they had to learn, so in a way, I am benefitting from the cowboy lifestyle. So, that’s something I guess.
VIVA MEXICO LA TIERRA DE LOS VAQUEROS
🇲🇽 M X 🇲🇽 🌵🌵🌵🌵
@@RanchlandsReview i’d love to be taught by yall if possible… im 17 and i’ve been practicing roping for the last id say about 6 months and my grandpa says im a natural but i know that its different on a live animal! Maybe would could do an apprenticeship type thing, dont know if any of yall have the time for it though
@@vtr2690 next time, and for anyone reading in the future, don't write unless it's to an address. turning up in person as a young bloke with a sparkle in your eye will get you so many doors open
Thank you.
that looks a good quality rope for me
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
VIVA MEXICO LA TIERRA DE LOS VAQUEROS
🇲🇽 M X 🇲🇽
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.
50ks? bruh
VIVA MEXICO LA TIERRA DE LOS VAQUEROS
🇲🇽 M X 🇲🇽🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵
Hermosa profesion me encantaria poder hacerla
i dont mean to be so off topic but does any of you know of a trick to get back into an instagram account?
I stupidly forgot my login password. I would appreciate any help you can offer me!
i love this video
Beautiful.
what kind ropes are those and were can I get one
Ranch rope and probably off Amazon
I love this all!
Please where can I buy such a rope
Hi Muhammad. Our cowboys use a variety of rope styles and makers, but King Ropes is one well-known favorite. www.kingssaddlery.com/
Or or orrrrr😂 you can get one from tractor supply 💁🏾♂️
@@justinpridgeon7069 I was just going to say tractor supply lol
Manuel Baca 😂😂
If I see anything about animal abuse in the comments I'll freak out
I've been roping my entire life and I have had no cattle be hurt since 2018
It doesn't hurt them
Camilla Johansson! Obviously you have never ran a chute nor worked cattle in one! I have seen way more cattle sore after being worked in a chute then ever have being roped and drug to a fire! Please inform your ignorance and maybe you will understand that your view and idea of compassion for an animal kills much faster then it cures! I respect your opinion and will listen to it but people like yourself will not inform nor are willing to listen to anyone else!
Camilla Johansson.... also running them through a chute requires sorting calves from cows to do so! With 500 pair just heeling and dragging, you would be lucky to brand 100 hd an hour if you had the help to do so. Do the math. Now sort calves off cows then run through chute? Branding , cutting, and vaccinating! Your talking like separation from cow for no doubt 9? 10? Hell I‘ll just say 12 hours in my experience cattle work! Now you re-think just a little how stressed that calf is now after 12 hours verses 2 minutes or less? That’s what I meant before inform yourself! Ignorance in Compassion is torture in its self way beyond anything they experience otherwise!
Camilla Johansson you apparently no exactly shit about livestock. Close your mouth, open you ears, rewatch the video and you might just learn something
and art taught By mexicans the real Cowboys never forget We are the real cowboys
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The Mexicans that I know that ARE cowboys couldn’t care less. The only Mexicans that seem too are the ones that couldn’t rope their foot if someone held it steady for them, much less ride a horse. Might want to put some salve on that butthurt.
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
Primeiro tem que escrever en inglês
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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
The Anglo only learned 1 technique from the Mexican vaquero, just enough to do the work. The Charro roping technique (Floreo de la reata) is a piece of art and elegance.
PREACH
the white man appropriates Mexican culture
What are you going on about? We still use a lot of those shots. I use the figure 8 all the time but I sure don’t need to figure 8 a calf at a branding. Nor would I front foot a calf at a branding. If I was branding horses I would. It’s all about using whatever fits the situation. The brandings I go to, you’ll see a lot of guys throwing Del Vientos, hoolihans and underhand or scoop shots.
Mo I know exactly 0 cowboys that think those are “trick” shots. At least where I’m from.
amy karr more like “most practical and proficient method” appropriation. Much of the style of the way we do things started on the Iberian peninsula with Portugal and Spain. Since I’m part Portuguese we could say a re-appropriated some of my own culture back.
This gives me idea for new game on ps5
fast back ropes are the only way to go.
Yo mededico a eso
THIAGO
The reason he probably he didnt get t o carry an iphone or a videogame was because they didnt exist yet.
puro gringo aquí
se cren vaqueros 😁
amy karr I believe you meant “se creen vaqueros”
If you’re going to appropriate someone’s language at least do it correctly
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Obviously he didn’t carry an iPhone... they weren’t around when he was a kid. 🤦🏼♂️
thats why he has a good life not like many people all day in their phone
How he dragged tht cow was funny asf lowkey
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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.
Perry Widhalm chill g, it’s just the title of the video.
@@v9311 Did you watch the video? I would say no or you did not understand it.
@@perrywidhalm114 Relax francis
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