Abstract: The invention is of a training rope for use in teaching and learning roping. The training rope eliminates from the traditional roping rope the spanning and coiled segments, allowing the user to avoid entanglement with and of these segments and thereby to concentrate on the more difficult aspects of roping--twirling, loop orientation, and proper release. The mode of attachment between the spoke segment and the adjacent portion of the loop segment (an elastic hobble) causes the training rope to perform in all aspects of roping practice in virtually an identical manner to that of a traditional roping rope, without the distracting effects of spanning and coiled segment entanglement or management.