Imagine having instant access to legendary team ropers, every single day, as personal coaches and mentors. Sound too good to be true?
Well, it isn’t, thanks to Total Team Roping (TTR)—a Web site that features a plethora of instructional videos starring multiple world champions and title holders, like TTR co-founder Bret Beach (three-time NFR qualifier), Clay O’Brien Cooper (seven-time world champion), Charles Pogue (15 NFR qualifications) and more icons.
“Technology has changed everything; why not let it change team roping?” Beach asked himself. Of all things, this epiphany dawned on him as he was flat on his back, recovering from major neck surgery, and watching golf.
“Two days prior to my operation, a guy had showed me a coaching app on his iPad, and I really didn’t understand it,” he recalled. “Then after surgery, I was on the couch incapacitated, watching the golf channel, and I saw a guy do a coaching video at 3 a.m. on the exact app I had tried to learn, and I thought, ‘Son of a gun! It’s been right here in front of me this whole time and I didn’t even know it’!”
A struggling golfer had sent a video of himself to the golf channel, and the golf pro didn’t just analyze it; he drew on the video (like NFL commentators analyzing plays on TV), reversed it, reviewed it in slow motion, and let the student see himself and what needed to change. Beach became so excited about applying the concept to team roping that he barely slept.
“I got up early, and called about six people regarding my idea. Early on at TTR, ropers could send me videos, but all I could really do was watch and say, ‘Try this or that’, but with this new technology, I could isolate the run, draw on it, talk through it, and do a two or three-minute coaching video and send it back. The student could sit, listen and watch me, Clay, Charles or other pros talk, draw and isolate things, and show them exactly what they needed to change,” Beach explained. “That technology was a game changer.”
Consequently, Total Team Roping subscribers can now reap the benefits, and will get a lot of bang for their buck, including different levels of membership (tailored to budget and needs), 24/7 access, top notch personalized coaching, and impressive results.
Membership levels
Subscribers can choose from monthly, yearly, gold or platinum-level memberships. Each level allows access to over 1,500 instructional videos, and the option to send in a set number of your own videos for personalized review. Gold and platinum level subscribers can send an unlimited number of videos.
“Part of this whole experience is about educating people how to learn and how to get better. Considering the amount of money team ropers spend on trucks, trailers, horses and entry fees, we can say, ‘Here is something [TTR] for 75.00 a month max that will actually give you a better chance of winning and getting a return on your investment’,” he said. “If you just want to watch our instructional videos, or send in two of your own a month, it costs 25.00—or basically the price of two cheeseburgers,” Beach added.
For the curious tire kickers, there are free sample videos or even a trial membership.
Access 24/7
TTR allows subscribers round-the-clock access to instructional videos or coaching via the wolves of the sport (all with numerous team roping titles to their credit), including: David Key; Lari Dee Guy; Kollin VonAhn; Brandon Beers; JoJo Lemond; Travis Graves; Ryan Motes; Chad Masters; Tyler Magnus; Tee Woolman; Dakota Kirchenschlager; Jake Long, Nick Sartain; Allen Bach; Rich Skelton; Luke Brown; Patrick Smith; Clay Tryan and Cesar de la Cruz.
“This kind of detailed video coaching is something people don’t normally have access to,” Beach explained. “We try to personalize it to answer specific questions. We cover every subject multiple times utilizing different instructors, but we want different perspectives. For example, if I’m teaching a school, I may tell you the same thing five different ways and one of those ways is going to stick,” he explained. “We understand people have different ways of receiving information, so we try to put that information out there every possible way.”
Of course, subscribers can have the utmost confidence in the advice they receive from TTR.
“I have made a very strong attempt to only use instructors that I would send my own kids to, or who I would leave my kids with for a week knowing they would learn something,” he added.
Personalized coaching
Thanks to the golf channel revelation, and the fact that all sports have coaches, Beach was inspired to make professional coaching for team ropers as easy as sending in a video.
“When students go to a school, they always do great, but it’s over in maybe two days. In contrast, I tell ropers here is a school [TTR] that you can have 365 days a year,” Beach explained, adding that access often goes above and beyond the norm.
“People will even call me or send a video to me when they are at a roping. I have tried to make myself available for that; if somebody puts forth the effort to make a video and call and want help, if there’s any way possible, if I can look at it—I’ll do it. It doesn’t matter what I’m doing,” Beach said.
Results
One thing Beach is sure of—TTR members can expect positive, and often lucrative, results.
“I believe what makes the biggest difference is the personal coaching,” he said. “I get call after call, or text after text, of ropers who are winning because of what they have learned through Total Team Roping. Looking back to when we [TTR instructors] were starting out, we would have given anything for the top ropers then to have been able to evaluate our runs. It really is a game changer for people,” he added.
In fact, Beach has found the video technology so helpful for students that he has changed the way he does his schools.
“There’s nothing as effective as being able to see yourself,” he said. “I have been on both ends—instructor and student—and I can tell somebody something until I am blue in the face, but them seeing themselves on video is what makes the difference. So now, I will just let people rope, not say anything, let them develop a pattern of what they need to change, video them with my iPad, then I point out things as they watch the video. You can see that they understand, and the results are amazing,” he added.
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