Downey man’s remarkable approach to archery and rodeo  

DOWNEY — Nathan Urie doesn’t fto thing extremity him from trying thing new. 

The 25-year-old, who lives successful Downey pinch his wife, has ever figured retired really to return connected nan adjacent challenge.

A image of Urie posted online by Archery Idaho an Idaho Falls business, caught nan attraction of EastIdahoNews.com. It shows Urie utilizing his teeth to tie a bow. 

“A bunch of Paralympic shooters usage a rima tab and tie their bows backmost that way,” Urie explained. “You benignant of wound down pinch your molars and past propulsion against them. You are conscionable really holding nan strings still pinch your molars.”

It sounds for illustration it could beryllium painful, but Urie said it’s not arsenic bad arsenic group mightiness think.

A rima tab is described arsenic a leather aliases synthetic tab attached to a bowstring that allows an archer to tie and merchandise nan front pinch their rima alternatively of their hand, according to Youtube survivalist Remi Warren.

Urie conscionable started learning really to do it successful January and competes successful nan sport.

The logic he uses his rima is evident erstwhile you meet him.

“Over nan years, I person had immoderate chaotic questions. I should person written them each down. But nan main 1 is evidently really I mislaid my limb and then, ‘How are you doing that pinch 1 arm?'” Urie said. 

Urie was calved without his near arm.

“I’ve sewage six siblings and past me. It’s conscionable benignant of 1 of those unexplainable deals. I was calved pinch 1 arm, and nan remainder of everybody was calved pinch each 4 limbs,” he said. 

He’s been utilized to it his full life, and he encourages group to inquire questions alternatively than not. 

“Parents a batch of times get aft their kids because kids don’t attraction and they’ll conscionable ask,” he laughed. “But that’s what usually makes it awkward, which is erstwhile nan parents are like, ‘No, no, no!’ I’m like, ‘It’s fine, it doesn’t matter.’ They are conscionable curious.”

Nathan Urie roping. | Courtesy KyleeJoannPhotography

Urie has besides done rodeo for galore years. He competed successful saddle bronc riding and squad roping. 

Saddle bronc riding tests a rider’s skill, spot and style. They effort to enactment connected a bucking equine for 8 seconds. Team roping is simply a timed arena wherever 2 ropers connected horseback activity together to statement and immobilize a cow. 

Saddle bronc riding is beautiful elemental because you person to usage 1 manus anyways, Urie said. But squad roping was different and he had to fig retired nan champion method. 

“This aged cowboy that I really respected told me, ‘Ah, I don’t deliberation squad roping is for you. You should effort thing else,'” Urie recalls. “That pushed maine into squad roping. Just because I wanted to show him that evidently it could beryllium done and done well.”

In past news articles online, Urie has been known to “overcome adversity since he was born” and has been called nan “one-armed cowboy.”

Urie sewage his Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association licence and competed successful ProRodeo. It’s clear he sets his mind to what he wants to execute and gets it done. 

“It really has not been overmuch that I person travel across. Monkey bars were reliable arsenic a kid but different than that, it was conscionable tossing maine successful pinch immoderate athletics aliases thing and I conscionable figured retired a way,” he said. 

Urie gave immoderate proposal to group who mightiness look challenges. Don’t fto thing extremity you.

“It’s good to look stupid. I do it each nan time. So conscionable get retired location and do it. Just alteration nan measurement you think. And fig retired a measurement to do it. Talk to personification who knows really to do it and chances are beautiful bully that you tin fig thing out,” Urie said. 

Nathan Urie competing successful rodeo. | Courtesy John Golom