Costa Rica Pura Vida rodeos embody the spirit

Rodeos in Costa Rica are in contrast with their counterparts in other jurisdictions. While visiting American Rodeo of its position on the market goes in large venues such as the football stadium and to promote the brand of the athletes, sponsors and suppliers, Costa Rica maintains the rodeo and intimate atmosphere located really connecting viewers the challenges, dangers and feel of bullock recreational riding.

The typical Costa Rican rodeo is semi-permanent places of plywood against a stepped circular arrangement built on the site, in many respects it resembles the “Wooden O” Theatre of time of William Shakespeare. The events follow Western standards rodeo with bull riding as the main feature various events and roping and riding fill the undercard. There is a big difference in the rodeo Costa Rica: No scorekeeping. There are no judges, points, eight seconds account, or win trophies. Also, unlike the European bullfighting, the bulls are never harmed and certainly never killed intentionally. Costa Rica is still small farmers in this regard and we needlessly kill an animal to show it as a terrible waste of valuable resources.

I was lucky, an authentic rodeo Costa Rica in 2009 to visit the city of Samarra near the Pacific Ocean in the province of Guanacaste. The scene around the event has been mixture of carnival and big-time football Friday night in Texas. The air was mixed with saturated humidity and the smell of steaks grilled mahi with pineapple and mango. Providers to serve this drink wonder the banana and coconut scrapings Peel mixed with fresh milk … with or without guaro (a powerful Tequlia made from cactus instead azucar) is. Young people dressed in their best mix of fashion and flirting in the pits. The old creakily move forward in their seats reserved. Participants who wish to shine in the local community are on the side of the canal pumping each other in a choking voice.

There was no rodeo clowns you’d see in a more organized rodeo, security tasks were steely eyes of a few old men and had a lot of dogs, which would keep the bulls at bay.

Hoping to show their huevos young men go and hit the bull’s back or try to assert themselves. Had until the end of the night the young men in the crowd rose in the ring and semi-organized the bull riding in the machismo-drenched bull taunts on. I have videos to prove this stage, he has linked below.

A man tired and started dancing bull, rodeo and finally completed in as little fanfare as it is. The public (which was not precipitated in the ring) provided light applause and distributed. The lesson I took from my experience rodeo Costa Rica, which is pure fun and excitement much more frequently in a wooden stage, as they are at Yankee Stadium.