In this Relentless Insights video, powered by Cactus Ropes, Lari Dee Guy shares her secrets to reaching.
When reaching, you need to stay balanced and keep your shoulders up. When some ropers want to reach, they drop their shoulders trying to get close to the calf, and that takes their power away.
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About Lari Dee Guy:
Lari Dee Guy is an eight-time Women’s Professional Rodeo World Champion and leading advocate for women in rodeo. Guy, of Abilene, Texas, teaches roping clinics across the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia when she’s not competing in the WPRA. She qualified for the first-ever National Finals of Breakaway Roping in Arlington, Texas, and she’s a 2021 Inductee into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame and a 2020 inductee into the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame.