The boy's father said instincts took over once he saw his son fall.
HOUSTON, Texas -- As the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo gets underway, a video showing a father jumping out of his seat and saving his bull riding son has gone viral.
"The last thing I can remember is I was getting down on my bull and taking my wrap, and that's the last thing I remember before getting knocked out," bull rider, Cody Hooks explained."You laugh about it when it's all over, but it kind of got me a little bit," Landis Hooks said. The video shows Cody falling off the bull as bullfighters struggle to get the bull under control. Landis Hooks takes initiative and jumps on top of Cody and gets kicked by the bull.
"That's just part of the culture we were brought up in," Landis Hooks explained."And a lot of people don't understand the hard work that these guys put in.""Honestly, that's not the first time I've jumped on somebody like that. It just comes from being around it all the time," he said."No matter what, I'm going to do what I'm going to do for him. Did I like it, no? I didn't like it one bit.
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