Florida is understood for having a wild aspect.  

There are limitless tales about alligators, pythons and manatees. Now you may add one thing else to the checklist:  bull driving.

This week on Florida’s Fourth Property, Matt Austin and Ginger Gadsden discuss to professional bull rider Clayton Sellars.

The younger man from Fruitland Park has made fairly a reputation for himself within the skilled bull driving world.

The very first thing you discover about Clayton Sellars is that hat. It screams cowboy in one of the simplest ways attainable.  

As quickly as he begins to speak, he has a fast smile and you may’t assist however discover that pleasant mega-watt, Hollywood smile.  

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That’s simply the floor for this cowboy who has deep roots in Florida and bull driving.

He’s younger however Sellars has been working exhausting to place some respect on his title and the game.

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You don’t get ranked within the high 25 proper out of the gate.

At simply 24 years outdated, Sellars has been sitting within the saddle since he was 7.

That’s how outdated he was when he rode his first sheep or mutton bustin’ because it’s known as.

He stated from the primary time he hopped on to experience he had the bug for bull driving.

“It’s a enjoyable occasion,” Sellars stated. “All people loves watching it however as a child, you’re a famous person on the market. Using that sheep throughout the sector and the gang is screaming, individuals choose you up and also you wave on the crowd. That’s the place I began and from there you get on calves, bulls and steers.”

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We wished to know the way a child from Fruitland Park even will get began on this sport.

“There are fairly a little bit of rodeo athletes within the state of Florida and simply cowboys typically,” Sellars stated. “That’s how I acquired my begin. My household’s cowboys and ranchers and I grew up driving horses, working cows simply being across the sport and being across the cowboy life-style. That simply form of advanced into driving bulls and calves once I was younger, and I began getting higher and higher and I ended up getting a rodeo scholarship to go to school and from there I acquired very severe about it and it simply form of carried into my professional profession.”

Proper now, Sellars is driving for a brand new workforce within the league, Missouri Thunder.

The objective proper now could be to provide a profitable report and hopefully win the championship.

Sellars has executed quite a lot of driving, however we wished to find out about his first time on a bull.

“Going again to the primary time, it was clearly fairly scary again then,” he stated. “I actually didn’t know what to suppose. I didn’t know what I used to be doing or do it. I used to be simply doing it as a result of it was cool and I believed I used to be a cowboy child; thought I used to be robust. It’s humorous trying again now how blurry and complicated it was to how clear and straightforward it’s now.”

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Sellars stated his first experience was tough.

“The primary huge bull I acquired on, he bucked me off very fast and he stepped on the aspect of my head, and it reduce my head from right here all the best way clear again,”  he stated as he motioned from his ear to the again of his head. “I believed ‘Golly, that is going to be a protracted profession.’”

Sellars brushed himself off, acquired stitched up and acquired again to driving. He stated proper earlier than he turned professional, he was simply getting on and driving quite a lot of bulls.

“That was the one strategy to get higher was to do it loads,” Sellars stated. “You possibly can work out all you need; you will get as huge and muscly as you need however that’s not going that will help you on this sport.”

Staying wholesome within the sport does require constant and specialised exercises.

“Now my exercises are very particular, quite a lot of mobility, plenty of physique weight stuff, flexibility, stretches. Nothing that’s going to make me huge and heavy however one thing that’s going to maintain me sturdy and light-weight and limber since you actually gotta bend and never break on this sport.

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Eight entire seconds of bending and never breaking is what retains Sellars within the win column.

When requested if he’s superstitious in terms of competing, Sellars stated he’s not, however he does have a routine.

“I prepare the identical method each time,” he stated. “Not precise however I hit the identical checkpoints all through the day. When it comes right down to it and also you’re within the buck and shoot and it comes right down to these last seconds simply earlier than the gate opens, there’s not loads that may clarify that. Issues are transferring quick however your thoughts is evident, you’re there, you’re current, you’re considering hardly something in any respect. If any ideas do come to my thoughts, it’s like no matter it takes, let’s get after this factor.”

Giddy up!

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