The reason for the change in the Futurity rule, going from 6 seconds to 4 seconds, was because a lot of us felt like 6 seconds had the potential to negatively affect the young bulls’ performances.

The reason for a dummy is to be able to train a bull. And to train him you can’t make him kick higher or jump harder or spin faster, but what you can do—when he does everything he can to get the foreign object off his back—is let him win. That means pushing the button and letting that dummy come off. That teaches the bull that that is how he can get the dummy off, by kicking higher and spinning faster.