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Amazingly, absolutely no experience or knowledge is necessary to ride a bull...
When I read in Let’s Go that the Great Western hotel, owned by a major Australian country music star, hosted weekly “practice bull riding,” I assumed it meant mechanical bulls, like in bars in movies about Texas. But as I found out, it’s the bulls who are practicing. Of every 200 bulls or broncos only one will buck adequately for a rodeo and a dozen professional riders are on hand every Wednesday night weeding out the candidates for the monthly rodeo. I’m content...
...something fading beauty blonde who’s poorly MCing the evening, “we’re pretty much tying you down.” That eases my worries a bit, as does the discovery I’ll only be riding a “beginner bull.” “You nervous?” she asks me through the microphone. “Yeah,” I say, and she recoils. “Uh, well, at least you’re honest...
Ashley and I stand watching one young up-and-coming rider after another be hurled to the ground as a couple of older, stern-faced Secret Service types get a hold of the bull and lead it away. After one particularly gruesome disembarkment I’m informed that that stag is the “beginner” I’m slated to ride. Great...
...health and well-being to a 14-year-old rider named John, whose safety gear I will borrow after his ride. I lean on the eye-high fence to see him last an impressive 7 seconds (in competition, you need 8 to win) on a near-full-grown bull before being tossed off and landing on his head. He hands me his equipment and insists to his hovering cloud of pre-pubescent admirers that he is fine, but I catch him rubbing his head for several minutes afterward. The helmet I wear is his, and it?...