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Bareback Bronc Riding Pictures
Bareback bronc riding is a rodeo event in which a rider tries to ride a
bucking horse, called a "bronc," for eight seconds. Bareback bronc riding is one
of the "roughstock" events of rodeo, which also include saddle bronc riding and
bull riding. All of the roughstock events are judged events, which means the
winners are determined by judges that score the riders and the bucking animals
on how well they perform. For more information on bareback bronc riding please
scroll down below the pictures.
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Bareback Bronc Riding
In bareback bronc riding the bronc rider rides the bronc, just as the name of
the event implies, bareback without a saddle. The rider does use a
"bareback rigging,"
a special piece of equipment designed just for the event. The bareback rigging goes
around the bronc's girth and has a handhold at the top. Contestants sit behind
the bareback rigging, holding on with one hand in the handhold of the rigging.
The other hand, the "free hand," is not allowed to touch the rider, the bronc,
or the bareback rigging.
At right: Photo of a bareback
rigging. The rider sits behind
the rigging and places one hand in the handhold at the top.
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Bareback Bronc Riding - The Difference Between Men And Women
While bareback
bronc riding is competed in far more commonly by men than women, there are
women bronc riders. The rules, however, for men and women are
different. Below is a brief overview of some of the differences.
- Men must make a qualified ride on a bronc for eight seconds before being
eligible for a score from the judges.
- Women must make a qualified ride on a bronc for six seconds before
being eligible for a score from the judges.
- Men are allowed to hold on with one hand only in the bareback rigging.
- Women are allowed to hold on with one hand or two hands (there are
one-handed and two-handed bareback riggings), but how a woman starts is how
she must finish. In other words, if a woman starts a ride with one hand
in the bareback rigging she must finish the ride with the same one hand. If she starts the ride with two hands she
must finish the ride with two hands.
- Men compete under the "mark out" rule. This means that in order to make a
qualified ride and be eligible for a score from the judges they must have the
rowels of both spurs in front of, and touching, the break of the bronc's
shoulders on its first move out of the chute. The rider's feet must still be in
this position when the bronc's front feet hit the ground for the first time.
This is called "marking a horse out." If men fail to mark a horse out with one or both feet they
receive a no score.
- Women also compete under the mark out rule. However, if a woman
fails to mark a horse out she will have five points for each side not
marked out deducted from her score instead of receiving a no score.
For photographs of bronc riders as they mark a horse out, see this page:
The markout rule.
- In professional rodeo men compete in saddle bronc riding and bareback bronc
riding. In women's professional rodeo women compete in bareback bronc riding only.
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Photo Pages
- Bareback Bronc Riding Pictures
- Bareback Bronc Riding Pictures, Black
and White, page 1
Bareback Bronc Riding Pictures, Black
and White, page 2
Bareback Bronc Riding Pictures, Black
and White, page 3
- Bull Riding Pictures, page 1
Bull Riding Pictures, page 2
Bull Riding Pictures, page 3
- Bull Riding Pictures, Black and White,
page 1
Bull Riding Pictures, Black and White,
page 2
Bull Riding Pictures, Black and White,
page 3
- Bull Riding Wrecks, page 1
Bull Riding Wrecks, page 2
Bull Riding Wrecks, page 3
- Cow Pictures, page 1
Cow Pictures, page 2
- Cowboy Mounted Shooting
- Cowboy Pictures, page 1
Cowboy Pictures, page 2
- Cowgirl Pictures, page 1
Cowgirl Pictures, page 2
- Draft Horse Pictures, page 1
Draft Horse Pictures, page 2
- Horse Pictures, page 1
Horse Pictures, page 2
Horse Pictures, page 3
- Paint Horse Pictures, page 1
Paint Horse Pictures, page 2
- Ranch Rodeo Bronc Riding Pictures, page 1
Ranch Rodeo Bronc Riding Pictures, page 2
- Ranch Rodeo Photos - Men's
- Ranch Rodeo Photos - Women's, page 1
Ranch Rodeo Photos - Women's, page 2
- Saddle Bronc Riding Pictures, page 1
Saddle Bronc Riding Pictures, page 2
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