Steer wrestling is the fastest event in pro rodeo. A 200-pound cowboy on a horse running 30 miles an hour slides off the side, grabs a 500-pound steer's horns, and drops it to the ground on its side. All four legs have to stop moving before the clock stops.
The wrestler rides out of the box on the left side of the steer. On the right side rides another cowboy, the hazer, whose only job is to keep the steer running straight. Without him the steer would duck away and the run would be over before it started.
When the wrestler is alongside the steer, he slides off his horse, hooks the steer's horns with his right hand, plants his left foot, and uses the steer's momentum to throw it. Good runs take three to five seconds. A 3.2 is a money run. The best steer wrestlers live in body-contact hundredths, runs where a lucky angle or a clean hook saves a tenth of a second.