Layman question about Professional Bull Riding: Suppose a bull, for some inexplicable reason, won’t buck when the rider starts the ride and just stands there doing nothing. Does the rider have to switch to a different bull, or do people do something to provoke the bull a bit, or does the rider accumulate great points for technically never getting thrown off?
Well see one reason the bull bucks us theres something tied around his male bits so when that straps pulled it gets tight hence he bucks to get the strap loose…if hes not bucking its stopped bexause the
Strap broke and another bull is ridden at the end.
They’re specifically raised for aggressive behavior. There’s a whole industry around those bull farms. A regular rancher doesn’t need many bulls. The boy calves are culled for breeders, rodeo work or hamburger.
Not exactly, they are bred and raised to buck.
Some of the most ornery bulls are very docile away from the ring, or even once they have dislodged the rider.
It’s only when they in the crush that they learn to turn on the show.
A stock contractor doesn’t keep each bull separately housed. Most get run in the paddock together where you’d think they would fight continually amongst themselves. They don’t.
There are others of course who are intractably nasty brutes.
OK, I get that the bull is bent towards bucking behavior, but my question is just the what-if: If the bull doesn’t, for whatever reason, buck, does the rider win (due to never being thrown off)?
No. The scoring system awards points to the rider and bull.
But the OP question is like asking what happens if a baseball player cannot hit, catch, or throw a baseball. That person wouldn’t make it to the majors. Likewise, the Bulls that are used have worked their way up in the ranks.
nightshadea, learn to type. The shift key and punctuation keys are there for a reason, learn to use them and love them. Also don’t keep spewing misinformation from some halfbaked thing you may have heard once. You keep making nonsensical statements like this, that, (after deciphering), are completely untrue.
If something - anything - goes wrong with the ride that is not part of the natural process, they get a “re-ride” on a different bull. An example would be if the bull trips and falls coming out of the gate.
If a bull is too docile, he will be replaced because a certain standard has to be maintained. The bulls are actually ranked and, occasionally, a bull will go through an entire career with almost no losses. “Sidewinder” was one of those bulls, but he retired a couple of years ago. I think he had something like 50+ victories and only one or two losses.
There is nothing “tied around his male bits”. There is a rope (or flanking strap) that goes around his flanks just in front of his hips that provides encouragement for enthusiastic bucking. It in no way is attached to or interferes with any male bits.
And yes, if a bull fails to buck, hits the gate coming out of the chute, falls, or has any other sort of issue that materially effects the ride, the rider has the option of requesting a re-ride. It is then up to the judges whether or not to grant his request.
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Hands up, who else was wondering at first what this had to do with Pabst Blue Ribbon?
Same. PBR is not an acronym I associate with rodeo sports.
What exactly did he say that is untrue?
My guess is that it’s this:
As per Wikipedia, and as Stana Claus corrected in post #9:
There more to “male bits” than testicles. Placing the strap just in front of the hips and looping around will come in contact with other sensitive parts.
Yeah, while it isn’t the testicles it’s still something worth bucking to get off.
If bulls are anything like human men, I would think that anything being attached to the testicles, as the myth goes, would make the bull ***not ***want to buck and do anything potentially harming to the balls.
And yet, when/if the rider is thrown off, the bull stops bucking.
There is a significant gap between a bull’s testicles and where its penis emerges from the abdomen. Plenty of room for the flanking strap to avoid both. The sensitive parts that the strap contacts are the flanks themselves, which all animals have (with varying degrees of sensitivity), not just males. Compare it to being somewhat roughly tickled along your ribs or under your armpits. It’s kind of like that for them.