‘I’m well on my way’

This weekend I'm headed down the road to Victoria, Texas to a Discovery tour event and then I'll catch a flight back up to Canada for another Rocky Cup event. Lately I've just been trying to work my way back on to the Built Ford Tough Series.

It's been going almost as planned and I've been winning money. I had hoped to be back by now, but I'm well on my way. Another good weekend should put me over the top and back on the BFTS.

What's amazing to me is that everybody who got cut the first time – me, Colby Yates and Harve Stewart – we've been traveling together a lot, but it's just in the past couple of weeks that we all got that fire back that we lost.

You can feel it when you're riding in the vehicle with one another and you can see it at the events when we're getting on our bulls. We're just now getting over the depression of getting cut from the tour.

First and foremost we're bull riders and that's what we do whether we're at a BFTS, Challenger tour, Enterprise tour or a Discovery tour event. It doesn't matter to us where we're at and it's pretty cool because everybody's on fire and keeping each other built up at the same time.

I think everybody will be back.

I know Clayton Williams got hurt last week, up in Canada, so he'll be out for a while. I don't know about L.J. Jenkins and Kolt Donaldson yet, it might take them a few weeks to get over that depression – the same as it did us.

Eventually the cream will rise to the top just like does every time and we'll all be back before too long.

It's kind of frustrating to sit at home and watch the events on Sunday. It's tough to see all your buddies doing well and not be able to be there and, at least, supporting them and having them support you.

But, like I said, first and foremost we're bull riders no matter what tour we're on so I'm just going to have fun, try to do the best I can, praise God and try to win.