Bull Riding

Attempting to ride a bull, I believe, is the most fun thing a person could do. I say “attempting” to ride a bull because that really is what I do. I wouldn’t call myself a bull rider as much as I would a bull fall offer. Allow me to qualify that real quick. To be a true bull rider you must ride all the time. Every weekend or at least every other weekend you must be on the back of a bull. That is how you become good. Many bull riders will tell you that if they go a couple weeks without riding, they will be out of their groove and therefore not as good. Riding often is the main thing that makes a good bull rider.

I get to be in rodeos two or three times a year. And when I do get to ride it has been at least four or five months since I have even attempted, thus increasing the level of difficulty. It is very hard to ride a bull, but it is even harder to ride a bull if you do not do it on a regular basis. This means that when I enter rodeos in Lincoln County or Eureka I am just a little bit over my head. Thanks to an e-mail from Kristin I entered a professional rodeo today!

Here is a good way to think about it.

In high school you can have a varsity baseball team. Some High schools have varsity rodeo teams. The state of Missouri has a high school rodeo league.

Most of the rodeos that I have been in are part of the Missouri Rodeo Cowboy Association. This is kind of like playing baseball at a community college level.

What Major League Baseball is to baseball the PBR (professional bull riders) is to bull riding.

So if you have been following along, my skill level might be a little over High School and a little under community college.

The rodeo I am trying to enter is probably somewhere around single A baseball.

It promises to be fun!


Here are some websites for more info:
http://www.longhornrodeo.com/

http://familyarena.com/calendar/index.html?section=calendar&submit=detail&event_uid=500&year=2008&month=01&day=11