Big Al's View Of The World
COWBOY SPORTS NEWS MAGAZINE MAY 2012
As I sit down to write this months piece of wisdom the weather is beautiful outside. It has taken all of my willpower to stay inside this office today. One of those late season cold fronts made everything have a little chill in the air. There is basically no humidity and there is a slight breeze from the north. A more perfect day hasn't been in awhile. We went to a TYRA rodeo yesterday and the weather was just as nice. To make it better it was one of those smaller rodeos close to home and we were back home by 4pm. After an early meal in town we came back to the house and just sat in my wife's biergarten for an hour and enjoyed the pretty weather. Life is good!
To say I have "spring fever" would be an understatement. It has been almost impossible to stay in the office the last few weeks. Each time my wife and I get together the talk turns to where we are going this summer, and it isn't a rodeo! We already have one trip to the Frio on the books for June. We're just trying to figure out what week we can go again or if we can fit in a trip to Florida.
We are definately fair weather cowboys. Days like today are perfect for roping but it's too dang hot in the summer. That is time to head to the water somewhere. I guess you have to have your priorities straight. Life is too short to sit in the stands at a roping or rodeo all day. We spent last weekend at the beach. There were two rodeos within an hour of the house but the beach was calling. Like they say, "life is a beach!"
The other night we went to a calf roping with our son. When we left my wife said we couldn't come back until Carson had a nickname. The announcer was calling everyone by their nicknames. There was the silver fox, scrimmage, backyard, and a couple others I can't for the life of me remember. Now we are working on getting him a nickname. I told him you can't pick your own. You have to come by it naturally. Something has to happen or you
have to do something to give someone a reason to start calling you by your nickname. I told him his day was coming, don't rush it.
Have you ever surfed YouTube? Every now and then I look up certain things on YouTube. When you watch a video it shows other videos that are related on the right hand side of the page. Sometimes these videos are pretty related. Sometimes they have nothing to do with what your watching. That brings me to my next item. Have you seen what is one YouTube?
You can find everything from Trevor Brazile interviews to Tha Big Reach in a club in Vegas. You can see Tyson Durfey rope calves on a pony and you can see Randon Adams trip on a pony. You can see Houston Hutto and Clint Cooper fighting a roping steer. You can learn to do just about anything in the world if you search the video and you can review just about anything that has ever been made.
My son and I watch the calf roping videos pretty regular to help with his roping. You can see just about every NFR run in the past five years and almost every pro boy has a video of some kind. We can sit and pick apart a run and show him what he needs to do different in his roping. There are also roping videos that I can show what NOT to do while roping. You'd be surprised what some people put on YouTube. I wouldn't be caught dead on these videos roping they way they are and they are just as proud as can be.
In case you haven't figured it out yet, nothing happened this past month worth writing about!!!!!
Later,
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