DSU hosts Dakota Community Bank & Trust Bull Team Challenge
More than 80 of the best bucking bulls ventured to Dickinson this past weekend to compete in the Dakota Community Bank & Trust Bull Team Challenge.
Written By: Jackie Jahfetson
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Parker Breding, of Edgar, Mont., holds on for 8 seconds on a bucking bull Friday evening during the Dakota Community Bank & Trust Bull Team Challenge hosted at Dickinson State University's Indoor Arena. (Jackie Jahfetson/The Dickinson Press)
Knocking off the dirt from his rope with a brush, a 28-year-old bull rider from South Dakota, who’s trying to climb the PBR circuit, then pulls out a clear-plastic sandwich bag holding a palm-sized brownish gem — which is coined as rosin. What is also known as rodeo glue to bull riders, the rosin helps a rider grip the rope that goes under the bull. The cowboy cuts a piece into his glove and uses a lighter to warm the solid rosin into a sticky paste. Then he fervently applies it to his rodeo rope, commenting that “you basically have to glue yourself on because there is no amount of man strength that will hold onto a bull.”