Shorty Leggs is a little clown with big charisma and can be found travelling down the road all summer long entertaining rodeo fans old and young a like. When he's not perfroming in the arena he can found signing autographs for a legion of young fans after each live event.
Mr. Leggs will be traveling to be at all the Dodge Rodeos this season as well as the Royal Winter Fair Rodeo in Toronto. When you combine Shorty's past Bull Riding experience with his second to none Bull Fighting skills you end up with one of the Best Rodeo Clowns in the business. He hails currently from Port Burwell Ontario - home of the most beautiful beach in Ontario.
Mr. Leggs will be traveling to be at all the Dodge Rodeos this season as well as the Royal Winter Fair Rodeo in Toronto. When you combine Shorty's past Bull Riding experience with his second to none Bull Fighting skills you end up with one of the Best Rodeo Clowns in the business. He hails currently from Port Burwell Ontario - home of the most beautiful beach in Ontario.
WHO IS SHORTY LEGGS AND WHAT DOES HE DO?
WHAT IS A RODEO CLOWN?
A rodeo clown is a rodeo performer who works on bull riding contests. Also called a bull fighter, historically the primary job of the rodeo clown is to protect the rider from the bull after he dismounts or is bucked off, by distracting the bull and providing alternative targets for the bull to chase. Additionally, bull fighters may improve the bull rider's score by turning a bull back that runs down the arena (for example, by grabbing his horn or getting the bull to follow him while the rider is on his back). Rodeo clowns also provide traditional clowning entertainment for the crowd between rodeo events, often parodying aspects of cowboy culture.
Rodeo clowns enter the rodeo arena on feet, before the bull is let loose, wearing bright, loose-fitting clothes. Their role is particularly important when a rider has been injured, in which case the rodeo clown interposes himself between the bull and the rider, or uses techniques such as running off at an angle, throwing a hat, or shouting, so that the injured rider can make it out of the ring.
Typically, rodeo clowns work in groups of three, with two free-roaming bullfighters and a third rodeo clown who is known as the barrel man. The barrel man uses a large padded barrel that he can jump in and out of easily, and the barrel helps to protect the rodeo clown from the bull.
Rodeo clowns have one of the more dangerous jobs in show business, because their job's stuntman requirements-improvisational comedy with half-wild bulls-expose them to a range of potential injuries from the bulls. As a result, injuries to rodeo clowns are common.
A rodeo clown is a rodeo performer who works on bull riding contests. Also called a bull fighter, historically the primary job of the rodeo clown is to protect the rider from the bull after he dismounts or is bucked off, by distracting the bull and providing alternative targets for the bull to chase. Additionally, bull fighters may improve the bull rider's score by turning a bull back that runs down the arena (for example, by grabbing his horn or getting the bull to follow him while the rider is on his back). Rodeo clowns also provide traditional clowning entertainment for the crowd between rodeo events, often parodying aspects of cowboy culture.
Rodeo clowns enter the rodeo arena on feet, before the bull is let loose, wearing bright, loose-fitting clothes. Their role is particularly important when a rider has been injured, in which case the rodeo clown interposes himself between the bull and the rider, or uses techniques such as running off at an angle, throwing a hat, or shouting, so that the injured rider can make it out of the ring.
Typically, rodeo clowns work in groups of three, with two free-roaming bullfighters and a third rodeo clown who is known as the barrel man. The barrel man uses a large padded barrel that he can jump in and out of easily, and the barrel helps to protect the rodeo clown from the bull.
Rodeo clowns have one of the more dangerous jobs in show business, because their job's stuntman requirements-improvisational comedy with half-wild bulls-expose them to a range of potential injuries from the bulls. As a result, injuries to rodeo clowns are common.
All of the great pictures that you see on this website were provided by "Official Dodge Rodeo Tour Photographers" Norm Betts and Shawn Turner. Shorty thanks them both for all of there time and efforts.
You can visit Shawn Turner's website simply by clicking right here!
You can visit Shawn Turner's website simply by clicking right here!
Many are not aware that Shorty has been a multiple time Bull Riding Champion with the Dodge Rodeo Tour and other rodeo circuits in Canada. In fact, he is the only Cowboy to ever win the St. Tite Rodeo in Bull Riding twice. Shorty is one of the finest Bull Riders that Ontario has ever produced.
This little clown with a big voice is proud to entertain the crowds on the Ontario Circuit. His never ending jokes, antics and acts are a great time for all that have seen them. But in today's sport of professional rodeo, protecting bull riders from serious injury or death is no joking matter. Shorty is dead serious about saving the cowboy, and often will place his own life in jeopardy to do so.
This little clown with a big voice is proud to entertain the crowds on the Ontario Circuit. His never ending jokes, antics and acts are a great time for all that have seen them. But in today's sport of professional rodeo, protecting bull riders from serious injury or death is no joking matter. Shorty is dead serious about saving the cowboy, and often will place his own life in jeopardy to do so.
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