During my ride at state, the bull stopped bucking and remained motionless for approximately 1.5 seconds. While stopped, I could clearly hear everyone behind the chutes screaming at me to spur him, but among the various voices I heard my dad’s words of wisdom, ‘keep your spurs set!’ When the bull did begin bucking again, he cranked it back to the left, which is rodeo slang for, he spun to the left hard. Had I had my feet out of him and been spurring, I would have been rocked to one side and bucked off. Yet I persisted. I kept my spurs set just long enough to track him back to the left and finish the ride quite extravagantly. At the time, spurring seemed like a very small action to take, but had I done it, I would never have made it to Nationals. Small actions clearly have big
During my ride at state, the bull stopped bucking and remained motionless for approximately 1.5 seconds. While stopped, I could clearly hear everyone behind the chutes screaming at me to spur him, but among the various voices I heard my dad’s words of wisdom, ‘keep your spurs set!’ When the bull did begin bucking again, he cranked it back to the left, which is rodeo slang for, he spun to the left hard. Had I had my feet out of him and been spurring, I would have been rocked to one side and bucked off. Yet I persisted. I kept my spurs set just long enough to track him back to the left and finish the ride quite extravagantly. At the time, spurring seemed like a very small action to take, but had I done it, I would never have made it to Nationals. Small actions clearly have big