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The early years of David Berry's life...
Even as a young boy growing up in northeast Oklahoma, David Berry was different. He played sports and participated in other activities like most kids, but his infatuation with bulls drove him to hurry up and get home so he could ride. The problem was he had no bulls - just cows, horses and pigs - and he rode them all, dreaming of riding the unrideable bull at the NFR. All he ever wanted to be was to be a World Champion Bull Rider.
At 13 David's parents finally let him enter a rodeo. They hoped it would be the last, but as fate would have it, it was the first of many rodeos and David's dream was becoming a reality.
David had a knack for staying on bulls for the full 8 seconds and while in high school enrolled in a Lane Frost Bull Riding School, mainly to meet his idol. It was the best investment he ever made and he quickly won many championships including the Oklahoma High School Bull Riding Championship.
Lane Frost Bull Riding School
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Combining the skills he learned from Frost, along with his natural talent, David was ready to ride bulls at the professional level. He graduated from high school and left that same night to pursue his pro bull riding career.
David rapidly filled his PRCA permit making him eligible for rookie status in 1988. All he could think about was winning the world championship gold buckle. As luck would have it, David got a chance to join up with his mentor, Lane Frost. Lane would help him figure out which rodeos to enter and invited David to travel with him and Tuff Hedeman early in that same year.
At the tender age of 20, David Berry captured the coveted PRCA "Bull Riding Rookie of the Year" title in 1988, beating out now 9 times World Champion Ty Murray.
The following year, in 1989 , David met up with Lane at the "Granddaddy of Them All," the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo. Lane had always told David that he was going to win big one day and make it to the NFR. David made the short go in Cheyenne and knew it was his time. He was on top of the world when it all came crashing down.
David made the buzzer on his bull, but when getting off, his face slammed into the horn of the bull, breaking both sides of his jaw. Laying in pain in the emergency room, David was riding the rush that the money he would win would edge him closer to his ultimate dream. But his dream would be shattered when Lane was brought into the same emergency room that afternoon. It was then that David got the news that his friend and mentor, laying on the table next to his, was dead. Lane had been killed during his own ride in the same arena following David's ride. Losing Lane was an event that would alter David's life forever.
David didn't stop riding bulls, realizing bones heal, dreams don't. He continued rodeoing and winning, but could not shake the feeling that something was missing. One day he just didn't enter anymore rodeos. He knew that part of his dream was over.
Even though David was no longer riding bulls, he could not forsake his passion for bulls and the sport. Shortly after ending his pro career, Monster Bull® Entertainment was born and bull riding David Berry style continues...
David Berry and Daughter Cheyenne
Today, David along with his daughter, Cheyenne Lane Berry , and his dad, Harold Berry, raise their own bulls from years of crossing only the best of the Berry Blood Lines. These are the offspring of the very same cows he used to ride when he was a young boy.
David Berry still eats, sleeps and breathes bull riding some 20 years after retiring from the competition. He helps develop the talent that exists in others who have the same dreams, desires, heart, and try that exist in him through his bull riding schools. From PBR champions to the newest names in the world of junior bull riding, David has the ability to coach bull riders at every level. He has a way of communicating that is at once both effective and enjoyable in helping winners reach their goals - and they do -in bull riding and in life.
Lane once told David "you think too much." Those around him now agree, but now he channels it to his advantage raising big time buckers and training those who ride them. Lane also told David that he would win big someday, and with David's passion and love for bull riding he has and does daily in all aspects connected to bull riding.
David has quite a list of credits to his name since he retired from bull riding:
Produced finals for two different Bull Riding Associations.
Named Producer of the Year for two different Bull Riding Associations.
Bucking Bull of the Finals for two different Bull Riding Associations.
Produces Bull Riding Schools with such former students as Dusty Labeth, Matt Bohon, and Luke Snyder to name a few.
Founded and started the Bull Riding News Paper HNH News (formally Humps N Horns).
"You've never met anyone quite like me and you probably never will"!!!
