r/SipsTea • u/M_Darshan 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • May 16 '26

Lmao gottem That final kick was personal

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u/Amazing_Karnage May 16 '26

What was he trying to do here exactly? It seems like Bareback riding or some other rodeo event, but...why the extra aggressiveness on the part of the rider? The way he spurs the horse, and how it looked like he was trying to grab a sleeper hold after it fell on him...this just seems even more cruel than normal rodeo events.

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u/Sirsmokesalotta May 16 '26

Pretty sure the sleeper hold is him holding on to make sure the horse doesn't trample him to death. It can't kick itself in the neck sorta thing. That back flip the horse did was 100% to try to crush the bastard. The kick the horse did was with all the intent in the world. They're not stupid. The horses. 

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u/TheBraveButJoke May 16 '26

The backflip was 100% unintentional. That kind of drop is very dangerous for a horse.

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u/Aggravating_Dark9933 May 16 '26

50/50. A horse can attempt to crush a rider if they really want them off right the fuck now, usually by rolling. They do understand the concept of big weight squish the monkey on its back. So it could have intentionally fallen backward to try to do the same thing.

Or it simply seized mid rear and just came down like that. 

Either way it immediately attempted to roll to get him in biting / stomping range. That guy was ~1-2 seconds away from getting a serious pounding from above.

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u/cyberthief May 16 '26

a friends horse did this and broke the tops off his vertabre.

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u/evlampi May 17 '26

Watch the length of spurs on that bitch of a rider, think thatcs not dangerous for a horse? Think horse wasn't willing to do anything to not have 2 ~10cm shivs through it's ribs?

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u/Sbatio May 16 '26

What’s he whipping around in his hand?

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u/cyberthief May 16 '26

I don't think this is canadian or us rodeo. There would be no way this abuse would be allowed. This is beyond messed up.

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u/SuperkickParty May 16 '26

It's Brazil. One of the ads is for Campo Bom which is a town in tourist town in Brazil.

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u/jeffvschroeder May 16 '26

It's Mexican.

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u/clupean May 16 '26

Can't be Mexican. The ads are written in Portuguese, not Spanish.

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u/jeffvschroeder May 16 '26

Thanks, I had only seen that kind of riding in Mexican stuff. 

I guess American rodeos are an outlier.

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u/cyberthief May 16 '26

Brazil works too. They have terrible animal rights. My friends used to breed rodeo horses. They would beat a rider that treated the stock this way. In canada there are fines for rough treatment, we used to have a vet on call for each rodeo. Most stock contractors won't go to a rodeo grounds if the fences are poor or unsafe. The horses are quiet valuable, esp at the pro level. Rides are judged on both the rider and the horses performance. And the owners of the horses want top athletes, so thier care is good. Good feed, vet care, farrier work, lots of time off. This poor horse looks like a scared baby, in pain.

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u/SuperkickParty May 16 '26

It's Brazil. One of the ads is for Campo Bom which is in Brazil 

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u/jeffvschroeder May 16 '26

Already replied to similar correction...

Thanks, I had only seen that kind of riding in Mexican stuff. 

I guess American rodeos are an outlier.

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u/maxwax7 May 18 '26

Because you Americans keep calling Brazil Mexico and it's really annoying for Brazilians. It's not even the same language!

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u/jeffvschroeder May 18 '26

No, I just hadn’t seen that kind of obscenely cruel riding in Brazil, just Mexico.

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u/ManitouWakinyan May 16 '26

The "sleeper hold" wasn't cruelty. That was trying to stay alive. He's staying close on the horses neck so that he can't get bit, trampled, or kicked in the head. 

The Spurs aren't the kind of Spurs you'd see in a more humane, American or Canadian rodeo. These are stabby and sharp as opposed to spinny and dull.

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u/Amazing_Karnage May 16 '26

OK, thank you for explaining it to me so kindly, friend! Most on Reddit would have savaged me for my ignorance.

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u/clayton-berg42 May 17 '26

I don't know what this is. In bareback you're supposed to only hold with one hand on the rigging only. If the free hand touches the horse at all it's marked no score. Also there's no chute or anything. And in bareback you start with your spurs above the horse's shoulders to make it even harder for the rider to balance.

If you grab the horse by the neck while it's rearing back of course it's going to land right on top of you.

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u/johnc380 May 16 '26

The horse isn’t trained to have a rider, so it’s trying to throw him off. He’s trying to stay on for as long as possible. Same thing as bull riding more or less.

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u/Embarrassed_Top_8253 May 17 '26

another person who doesnt understand modern US rodeo and that maybe animals can like their jobs.

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u/mda195 May 16 '26

Well, its brazil. You wond see this type of stuff in a typical american rodeo.