The Team Roping Journal

5 FLAT with Kory Koontz

PUTTING HORSEMANSHIP FIRST

Kory Koontz has made some of the best-ever heel horses. And he did it without an arena at his house for 19 of the 22 NFRs he made.

As a little kid, I got to where I could rope the horns. I could get to where I needed to be, or I could make it work by stepping back and letting my loop do the work for me. As a young roper,

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