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This is Randall Powell with Expert Village and in this clip I am going to show you how
to throw a heel loop while team roping. Your heel loop is going to be bigger than your
head loop so you get a pretty good loop built up. The whole principal behind heeling is
placing a trap in front of the steers back 2 feet. You do this, you can get in time with
the steer running down the pen watching his back feet running down the pen as you are
riding your horse and swinging your rope and get everything in timing with that. Then after
your header turns him and ropes him and turns him, you get your heel to fall in behind him
there and you want to be just off to the left of the steer and just kind of almost parallel
with your horses shoulder and the steers back legs, maybe a foot or two back from that.
You just get in time and when the steers feet goes back, that is when you deliver your rope.
When swinging a heel loop, you have more of an angle like a 35 degree angle over the left
side of your shoulder here and how you judge that running down the pen, you just swing
at an angle over your horse's left ear. Upon delivery whatever your header ropes the steer
and takes him around the corner, you ride up there and as soon as your horse gets in
position to deliver your loop, you come from out and across and not forward. Never throw
your loop forward like you would a head loop. When you are delivering a heel loop, it is
more just straight across and this angle, right here is what is going to push your tip
through. The tip is this point of the rope that is always going to lead through or get
to the target first. This is directly in front of the eye of the rope which is this part
here. So you send your tip through, hang on to your rope a little longer than you would
expect and deliver. Once you get your rope under there, you will see that the steers
back 2 feet hopefully jump in it. That is when you would pull your slack and dally and
that would stop your time and that's how you throw and deliver a heel loop.