2026-08-03
Introducing BarebackBronc.Pro
Bareback bronc riders take more physical punishment than anyone else in rodeo. Shortest career, highest cumulative damage — elbow, shoulder, neck, back, and hand, all on one side.
That is not colour commentary. It is the design brief for this app.
Three things nobody has built
1. Rigging management
The rigging has no analog anywhere else in rodeo. It is a piece of personal equipment with a legal specification, a per-horse fit problem, a wear life, and a set of disqualification risks.
Nobody tracks any of it.
So: measure it once, get a pass or fail against the association spec, keep the photo. Save your per-horse setup — pad stack, position, tape wraps — instead of rebuilding it from memory on a big-withered horse you last saw two seasons ago. Track wear on the handhold and the suede, because a rigging failure mid-ride is an injury event, not an inconvenience.
2. Stock intelligence
Half your score is the horse, and the draw decides seasons. Every recorded trip, buck-off rate, average horse mark, how it comes out of the chute, whether it is honest or erratic.
Plus two things that only matter in this event: the horse's wither profile — high, flat, or wide — and rigging fit notes accumulated from everyone who has been on it. Riders already trade this verbally. A shared database of how the rigging sets on a given horse is a feature only this app can have.
3. Your body
Injury records by region, conditioning by block, workload across a season. Private by default and never shown to a producer, a contractor, or anyone else.
In this event that is not a wellness tab bolted on the side. It is the difference between a five-year career and a fifteen-year one, and it is the least-supported thing in the sport.
It is not saddle bronc with the saddle taken off
The two events share a scoring engine and almost nothing else. No stirrups, no rein, one hand on a rigging, and a completely different spurring stroke — knees up, spurs rolled up the shoulders as the horse rises, legs straightened and spurs returned over the shoulder point for the next jump.
The equipment rules are different, the analysis targets are different, and the health module is different. Software that treats them as one event gets the parts that matter wrong.
And it is the whole community
The feed, the groups, the DMs, the people. Entries and draws. Scores broken into their four parts. Rerides. Schools and clinics. The marketplace. Youth and college standings.
If you ride bareback bronc, you should not need another app. That is the bar.
Built for the amateur side
Most bareback bronc riders are at amateur rodeos, high school and college, and offseason jackpots. That is who the copy, the pricing and the defaults are written for.
And it is why the rules are configuration rather than code — the mark-out alone is an automatic disqualification under PRCA and a scored element under IPRA. See the rules reference, including the full rigging specification with the actual numbers.