KITSAP COUNTY FAIR & STAMPEDE
AUGUST 19, 2016
Freestyle bullfighting joins 2016 rodeo To qualify for the NFR, riders must rack up prize money by entering and placing well in rodeos throughout the year. The top 15 riders in each event (the top earners) compete for the title of World Champion. Kitsap can’t offer huge prize money, but its strategic timing and respectable purse size draw top riders who need a boost as the season draws to a close. It will be an exciting year for another reason – they’ve added a bonus event, freestyle bullfighting, which will take place for a maximum of half an hour on Friday only, before the regularly scheduled events. Drouin describes freestyle bullfighting as “a timed event whose goal is to maintain control and interaction with the bull and entertain the crowd.” But bullfighting must be dangerous, right? Drouin agrees, but says the contestants understand the danger. “For most of these guys, this is the lifestyle they’ve grown up in,” he said. It’s more performative than other
By ALLISON TRUNKEY
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et ready for another big year of rodeo. This year’s Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) Rodeo takes place Aug. 24-27, starting at 6:30 p.m. each night. And despite the fact that the all-volunteer crew wasn’t allowed to start prepping the arena for the rodeo until two weeks prior, they began readying their equipment in late July. What’s more, the list of contestants will be unknown until around the same time. Registration stays open for just 24 hours, though local rodeo director Joe Drouin says he can almost guarantee a quality pool of contestants for Kitsap. “We’re lucky that we’re sandwiched with Puyallup and Pendleton, so the big names will be here,” he said. “Fans will see many of the top riders in the PRCA because they’re trying to qualify for the NFR [National Finals Rodeo] in December.”
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events, even bull riding, but by nature of increased interaction with the highpowered animals, it relies on an elevated level of danger. Freestyle bullfighting and standard bull riding come from the same tradition, but freestyle uses “rank” or “mean” Mexican bulls who will, as Drouin said, go after anyone – their temperaments are notoriously volatile. You might think that significant training goes into a contestant’s preparation for the rodeo. And in a way, that’s true: riders often spend their entire lives training. “But very few of them are gonna train. What it really looks like is fitness – you’ll see that many of these professional guys are talented athletes,” Drouin said. That means, too, that many professional riders start out watching and then participating in Junior Rodeo. Youth riders compete year-round, and many practice for two to three hours a day, every day. In places where rodeo is popular, like Eastern Washington, high schools and colleges might have teams. In other cases,
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individuals will have private arenas where they can practice riding and roping. Here is your guide to the rodeo’s main events: Bareback riding (BB): A physically demanding event for the rider, who sits directly on a bucking horse for up to eight seconds. The rider is awarded up to 25 points by each of the two judges, based on the rider’s “exposure” to the strength of the horse and his spurring technique, and up to another 25 points each for the horse’s bucking strength and moves (the rider spurs the horse on each jump, trying to balance control with style). Steer wrestling (SW): A timed event (meaning the fastest time wins) that depends on coordination between two mounted riders and their horses. The contestant and a hazer, who controls the steer’s direction, begin the event by backing their horses into boxes on either side of the steer – the contestant See RODEO, Page 15
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