"I started riding horses when I was about 15 - at boarding school - Nudgee College. I rode there for a year and when I left I went straight into the professionals - APRA - and everything's been going pretty good since then. I make a pretty good living out of this - I think I'm the highest paid bullrider in Australia at the moment.
 
"Just before I get on that bull I feel really aggressive - keen, eager. I guess when you want something real bad you're very ambitious. I'm going to try and do this until I know I can't any more. There's got to be a stage in every professional bullrider's life when you have to say, 'enough's enough'. It is the most dangerous sport in the world, but if you do it right it's not.
 
"You only get it right with lots and lots of practise. A lot of guys fall off a fair bit before they get going in their careers. Each bull's different but I try to ride every bull the same - if I have to do something different, I'll do it. If I have to take my rope a little looser I'll take it a little looser, or if it needs to be a bit tighter, I'll take it a bit tighter. It all depends. You get to know the bulls over the years and there's always new ones coming and going.
 
"You get to know a bull just by the way you look at him and you talk to the other guys. He might be willing, he might be flat, fast - or he might be jumping, kicking over his head really slowly.
 
"I jump off and try to land on my feet each time. It sort of hurts when you land on your head or your back. But I just wear my old cowboy hat - I never think about injury at all. I've broken my arm - that's it - in five years of Pro bullriding. I tape the arm I hang on with, just to support me, because I might get on a bull today that's a little tuggy.
 
"I take as long as I want in the chute. Some people understand that this is what we do; like a lawyer - if it's going to take a lawyer 12 months to finish a case and he knows he can win it, he's going to take 12 months isn't he? That's like me - I take as long as I want just so that I can get everything right. This is how I make my money - there's no point in being half-hearted about it.
 
"But those eight seconds go forever. Being on a bull is like a big rush. I've never been in a car accident, but my Dad has and he reckons it's just like bullriding. It all happens in an explosion I guess. Because I'm used to it now, I can control that."
 
If young Grant Wells is being cheered on by his family, many in the rodeo community, also hope he achieves "Legend" status. As Russell Peters says, "I'd love to see this young Wellsie go to the States and really go on. He's a good cowboy - probably a bit too long to be a bullrider but he's proved everyone wrong. He's just not built to be a bullrider. This is probably why he covers a lot of big bulls, because of the length of his legs, where a shorter rider can't get his legs into the bull."
 
Whatever the future holds, Grant loves his present life.
 
"I love going down the road from Boulia and I travel with the best bunch of guys you could ever have. I travel with Kelly Daly from Julia Creek, he's a champion bullrider and one of my best friends. I travel with Dave Back, two times Australian Bullfighting Champion - he and Kelly are my two best friends in the world. We travel all the time together. And I love hotels. I love my bed. Sometimes you need your bed, sometimes you do."