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Rodeo

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Rodeo is a sport where athletes show off their riding and roping skills. This sport includes a variety of events: tie-down roping, team roping, steer wrestling, saddle bronc riding, bareback bronc riding, bull riding and barrel racing.

How to Play

All the events for rodeo are split into two categories: the rough stock and the timed events. The objective of the rough stock event is the cowboy has to ride either a bucking horse or bull for eight seconds. The objective of the timed events is that cowboys or cowgirls are trying to get the fastest times.

Sports Role(s)

  • Each cowboy or cowgirl competes for themselves.
  • For team roping there is the header who lassos the running steer and the heeler who lassos the steers hind legs.
  • Rodeo clowns work during the bull riding competitions distracting the bulls and helping to prevent injury.

Equipment Requirements

  • Bull riding boot ties are straps that go around the rider’s boots so that the rider’s boot doesn’t fly off while they are riding.
  • Lassos are ropes used to rope the calf, steers and bulls.
  • Bull riding chaps protect the rider’s upper leg and pants from getting a rash
  • Horses to complete the events and help to keep the animals steady.
  • Cowboy hats are worn to hold water for the horse or cowboy and can be worn for protection and for fashion.
  • Bull riding gloves worn by the bull rider when they are holding onto the rope.
  • Joint braces, mouthguards, and protective vests to protect the riders as they get thrown off from the bull. 
  • Riding spurs allow the rider to tell the horse which direction to go.

Rodeo Performer or Cowboy/Cowgirl

Player Title

⭐⭐⭐⭐ High

Physical Activity Level

⭐⭐⭐⭐ High

Risk of Injury

$15,000

Average Salary

$1 million

Top Earner Salary

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Category

Individual Sports

Skill
Requirements

Agility

Agility

Coordination

Coordination

Power

Power

Quickness

Quickness

Speed

Speed

Stability

Stability

Stamina

Stamina

Strength

Strength

Trevor Brazile

Brazile is a rodeo champion who competes in the professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. He holds the record for the most PRCA world champions with 26 titles. When Brazile was 14 years old, he was the World All-Around Cowboy Champion. In the years 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2006-2015 and in 2018 he won the World All-Around Cowboy Championship. In 2007,2009, and 2010 he won the World Tie-down Roping and The World Team roping in 2010. In 2006, 2007, 2011, 2013-2015, 2019-2020 he won the World Steer Roping. He has won four NFSR titles and two Wrangler NFR Average Titles.

Date of Birth

November 16, 1976

Birthplace

Not Available

Net Worth

$2.5 million

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