ride a bull

I did this years ago when on a rodeo team at Texas A&M. It’s awsome and very dangerous, which makes it that much more fun. For those that wish to try it…cowboy up and get’r done : )

This would be cool.

I can’t even describe this experience in words!!! I rode a bull for my 21st birthday. I had always wanted to…and I did it despite the fact everyone said I couldn’t because I was a girl. I stayed on for 3 seconds, but that was the most fun I have ever had. When you sit on a bull and feel that strength under you..it is just awesome! I suggest anyone who wants to try this to suck up the fear and do it!

As a teenager I wresteld a grizzly bear. That is a memory I will keep all my life.
Now it is time to prove I am still man enough to go against a beast.

As a kid, this is what I said I wanted to do when I grew up, “Be a professional bull rider.” No longer want to turn pro, but would like to test out my skills on the real thing. I think I am going to try out a camp in texas where you get to ride as much as you can handle and get some training.

I am a certified adreneline junkie. I’ve tried just about everything short of jumping out of a plane. Ever since I was young, I always wanted to try riding a bull and I finally got my chance when I met a guy a buddy of mine worked with. He had just moved to WV from northern Cali and was a semi-pro bull rider. I talked to him for a long time about bull riding as a sport and what it took to be good at it. I told him that I always wanted to try it and he looked at me and said “ok.” I didn’t think much of it until one day he called me up a few days after we went and saw a local rodeo and said that he found a rodeo he wanted me to ride in. Me, not being one to back down from a challenge decided to step up and take my chances in the buckin’ shoots. He loaned me his gear because he and I are very close to the same size and gave me a “crash course” in shoot procedures (tying/adjusting the knot in your bull rope, wrapping your hand, ect.). When I got behind the buckin’ shoots, to say that I was nervous was an understatement; I felt like I had a brick in my stomach. I drew the bull #55 “Smooth.” When my bull was moved into the buckin’ shoots I felt my heart race, and I knew it was time to put up or shut up. I climbed up into the shoots and screwed down on the back of the bull. At that point I noticed that I wasn’t scared anymore, my instincts had taken over and I knew what I had to do. I adjusted my rope and heated the rosin up on my glove. When I wrapped my hand in the wrope I turned my spurs in and took a deep breath thinking “this is it.” I looked down at the shoulders of the bull (chest out and chin down) and dipped my hat. The shoot slammed open and the bull blew out with a huge kick. It felt like I was tied to a sedan in a crash. I flet my hat fly off on about the 3rd jump and all I could do was bear down, grip with my spurs and pull up on the rope. When the buzzer sounded, i unwrapped my hand and rolled off the bull and ran to the fence like my hair was on fire. When I got back behind the shoots and I knew the ride was over I had a mix of pure euphoria and relief that the ride was over. I’ve never felt anything like that in my life. All I could think about when it was done was “I wanna do that again!” Now I do my best to ride every 2 weeks and I am trying to go pro. I would tell anyone with a thrill seeking personality that bull riding is something to be expierienced. You will never forget your first ride, and even if you never ride again, you will always remember what it was like.

since my grandparents 50th anniv. [when i was 8] i saw a picture of my grandma rideing a bull. and iv lived a life fasinated with bull riders. Iv been told over and over, “its a mans sports, NOT for a girl” or “only men can do it” and im not sure if thats true. and idk how id ever beable to accomplish it but its gunna happen!!! :D

I know that it’s not the real animal, but this is the closest I’ll get in a long time. so much fun, and definately not as bad as I originally thought. I recommend to everyone.

I went to see a couple friends of mine compete in a small rodeo in Arizona. When we got there they said I could sign up and do it as well. One of my friends said he’d loan me his cowboy boots (which were too tight!) before I rode, and I decided to give it a shot. When I was in the shoot and they were tying my hand to the bull everyone was shouting instructions at me, do this, don’t do that. One friend took a picture right then and my face has a bewildered look, like “What the heck am I doing”. I stayed on almost to the buzzer but landed on the ground just as it went off. I think I could have stayed on longer but one of the last minute words of advice was “if you are sliding off the side make sure you pull your hand out so it doesn’t get stuck”. So as soon as I started to slide I bailed rather than get my hand stuck. I’d like to try it again sometime.

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