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This is Randall Powell for Expert Village and in this clip I am going to tell you about
the numbering system when they classify you to become a team roper. When you just start
roping, you want to be honest. Really, really honest with the people that you join their
organization. You become a member of their organization and you need to be honest and
let them know how well you rope or how well you don't rope or how bad you rope. They are
going to classify you and give you a number. When you first start out, your number is going
to probably be a 2 or 3, a really low number. If you are in the TRA or OTRA, it might be
a half and as you get older and progress at your roping skills and get better, they just
raise your number ever so often. Usually when you win roping's though they will raise their
number and the numbering system is how they determine what roping's you are in. If there
is a number 9 roping, that would consists of a 5 and a 4. You know a 5 header and a
4 heeler or vice versa, their numbers have to add up to be the number of the roping.
If you are like in a 9 roping and you are 5 and your partner is a 3, you can still rope
even though you are still just an 18 but you can't rope if you are a 10 team. Like if you
are a 5 and your partner is a 5, you can't rope in the 9. If you are an 18 in the 9,
then they have incentives which you can rope and get seconds off or they will pay you after
a short average of how many head you brought to your incentive team. So they try and let
everybody rope, that is as good or not as good in the roping. So from the 9 and under,
like I said a 5 and a 4 would be a 9, 5 and a 3, or 4 and 3, anyone of those could rope
in the 9's just based on how well your rope is, what number you are going to have when
you start roping. Maybe that will help you in knowing how to become a higher number roper.