Reflective Essay: The Sport Of Riding Bucking Horses

Most high school kids play sports like baseball, basketball, football, or they are in some kind of after school activity. All of those sports and activities are awesome during school, but when summer came around there wasn’t much to do in my tiny town of Julian located in Central Pennsylvania. Instead of staying home all summer and twiddling my thumbs day in and day out. When I was fifteen I decided that I wanted to try something different I wanted to get into the sport of riding bucking horses at a rodeo.
The sport of riding bucking horses isn’t the most complex sport in the world but it is one of the toughest. The whole object of riding bucking horses is to see who could stay on the back of a horse for a full eight seconds without being bucked off, and ending up face down in the dirt below. It was the summer of 2014 I was going into my senior year …show more content…
I can remember not getting to much sleep the night before my big event because of all my emotions and thoughts that were running through my head. In a way I was kind of psyching my self out of the entire thing because I was thinking that my competition was way better then what I was. I knew that I shouldn’t let things get to me and that I shouldn’t think that way I just couldn’t help it. My emotions were getting the best of me and I had no way of controlling them. Then Monday came, I must have got maybe a today of three hours of sleep that entire night, but I wasn’t tired because today was my day. I was ready to compete and the thoughts that I had were gone, I was ready and I felt like I was going to place pretty high. It was now five-thirty my family and I made our way to the rodeo, when we got there we said our goodbyes they each gave me a hug and wished me good luck. I needed all the luck that I could get because this was it nationals, it was my time for me to show what I was