Running of the bulls

Rushlimbo

Anyone else on here root for the bulls like I do? I love it when they gore these idiots. Love it !!

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PJ_Saluki

I kinda root for the bulls but at the same time I'd like to participate in that event. I think it would be kinda cool and definitely scary as hell. Oh, I also root for the Chicago Bulls.

Abookamongstthemany

I think it's sick.

Jeanie

Not one for running of the bulls so much.

But I have to say that one of the most amazing things I've experienced was attending the bloodless bullfighting in the South of France.

Here is an explanation from wiki:

Since the 19th century Spanish-style corridas have been increasingly popular in Southern France, particularly during holidays such as Whitsun or Easter. Among France's most important venues for bullfighting are the ancient Roman arenas of Nîmes and Arles, although there are bull rings across the South from the Mediterrannean to the Atlantic coasts.

A more indigenous genre of bullfighting is widely common in the Provence and Languedoc areas, and is known alternately as "course libre", or "course camarguaise". This is a bloodless spectacle (for the bulls) in which the objective is to snatch a rosette from the head of a young bull. The participants, or raseteurs, begin training in their early teens against young bulls from the Camargue region of Provence before graduating to regular contests held principally in Arles and Nîmes but also in other Provençal and Languedoc towns and villages. Before the course, an encierro – a "running" of the bulls in the streets – takes place, in which young men compete to outrun the charging bulls. The course itself takes place in a small (often portable) arena erected in a town square. For a period of about 15-20 minutes, the raseteurs compete to snatch rosettes (cocarde) tied between the bulls' horns. They don't take the rosette with their bare hands but with a claw-shaped metal instrument called a raset in their hands, hence their name. Afterwards, the bulls are herded back to their pen by gardians (Camarguais cowboys) in a bandido, amidst a great deal of ceremony. The star of these spectacles are the bulls, who get top billing and stand to gain fame and statues in their honor.

Another type of French bullfighting is the course landaise style, in which cows are used instead of bulls. This is a competition between teams named cuadrillas, which belong to certain breeding estates. A cuadrilla is made up of a teneur de corde, an entraîneur, a sauteur, and six écarteurs. The cows are brought to the arena in boxes and then taken out in order. Teneur de corde controls the dangling rope attached to cow's horns and the entraîneur positions the cow to face and attack the player. The écarteurs will try to dodge around the cow in the latest instance possible and the sauteur will leap over it. Each team aims to complete a set of at least one hundred dodges and eight leaps. This is the main scheme of the "classic" form, the course landaise formelle. However, different rules may be applied in some competitions. For example, competitions for Coupe Jeannot Lafittau are arranged with cows without ropes.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nRKwksMAOQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wusePDuTeMc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoTS_5-osCU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6rQe0cWac4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIal0BvZQJA

RolandTD20Kdrummer

Young Italian men having endless testosterone spasms.

decides2dream

Abookamongstthemany wrote:

I think it's sick.

running of the bulls, then add in the follow-up...the actual bullfights. i know many spaniards would defend the practice as it being an 'honorable death' for the animal, a rich part of their culture....etc. and i say, NO. killing for simply killing, especially as a spectator sport.....yea, it is sick, and utterly sickening.