"I don't think there are enough country boys around anymore who think getting jerked around by a wild horse is a lot of fun!" 
his superstitions include:
No hat on the bed and he doesn’t eat chicken on the days he rides because the thought is
‘you are what you eat’…
His most challenging ride was during the 2005 Winter Tour Finale in Reno when he scored 90 points…
His favorite rodeo is the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo,
dream livestock to draw would be "Grated Coconut" of the Calgary Stampede string.

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Sore, tired and back in the rigging room, Eric considers his 81 point ride on "Pale Face"
and the tough, long road that lies ahead of him on 2010 pro-rodeo circut.

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 Sheer strength isn’t all that’s required...
A bareback rider is judged on his spurring technique, the degree to which his toes remain turned away from the horse throughout the ride and his “exposure,” or willingness to lean far back and take whatever may come during a ride. The horse’s bucking action also contributes half a rider’s score.
(Duane Kesler, stock contractor and flank man, can be seen above chute in white shirt)

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Scott Montague - Rapid City, SD 
Bareback on horse #KK231 "Sunset Strip"
Scott captures a wold record on this ride, scores a 91! 
a Kesler Rodeo Company horse

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I would have to say...this is one of my favorite shots of arena action this past week...

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~~~High Voltage Chaos~~~

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~as old as your doubts~

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~Cooper~

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The 20 Year Blue Moon
...very early 2010 remnants there of...

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The Green Fairy
of the Belle Époque has always intrigued herbalists and thinkers alike.
It's very nature caused Oscar Wilde to write and Toulouse-Lautrec to paint. 
Absinthe has caused many sane people to go insane and enjoy it.
Proof is by looking at the drinkers of Absinthe,
which include Pablo Picasso, Oscar Wilde, Ernest Hemingway, Vincent Van Gogh, Baudelaire, and Verlaine.
Each of these masters were amazing and some might say insane as well...

"After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world."
"Absinthe has a wonderful color, green. A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?"
  ~Oscar Wilde

"Let me be mad...mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world."
  ~Marie Corelli

"Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all furniture that you can always claim the  woodworms did it."
  ~Ernest Hemingway

Absinthe is the aphrodisiac of the self. The green fairy who lives in the absinthe wants your soul.
But you are safe with me.
 ~Dracula

"For me, my glory is but a humble ephemeral absinthe."
  ~Paul Verlaine

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