00:00It's only eight seconds, but it feels like a lifetime.
00:06A one-handed battle often taking riders to within an inch of their lives.
00:12Actually just their mental, yeah, their mental game sort of thing.
00:15And that's just prevalent in any sport, like the winners all have champion mindsets.
00:20This is the start of rodeo season at an iconic Top End pub, 40 minutes south of Darwin.
00:26Thousands flock here to see a gruelling test of Australia's toughest cowboys and cowgirls.
00:31The hats, the bells, the shirts, the bulls.
00:35Just the experience, the noise, I love it, love it all.
00:38Preparations begin months in advance and continue until the gate swings open.
00:43The competitors aware it's as much a psychological trial as it is a thrilling spectacle.
00:48If I stuff him up one tiny bit he's going to get me on the ground so I've got to be perfect here.
00:52Rodeo has taken champion bull rider Sam Woodall as far as the US and Brazil.
00:57Riders are scored on difficulty and their anticipation of the bulls' movements.
01:01But for many who travel here from the territory's remote cattle stations to compete, this is more than a sport.
01:07Rodeo goes hand in hand with working in the bush.
01:10A big part of like ringing or working on a station are your camp drafts and your rodeos,
01:14so they won't have a day off for months at a time.
01:16It's a community and that's what the rural aspect brings, whether you're bush or in town are rural.
01:21They all come together, they all help each other out and that's why it's a community out here.
01:25A rural tradition not going anywhere soon.
01:28Rodeo is the best.
01:30Rodeo is the best.
01:33He's the best.
01:35Rodeo is the best.
01:39Rodeo means theБoo.
01:42Rodeo means that people are still Mondays!
01:45Rodeo means aantic toenесп fin.
01:52Rodeo means no one of them.
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