Get familiar with your bull. A commonly-overlooked step in the bull-ride is getting somewhat familiar with the bull you're going to be sitting on top of. Spend a few minutes watching the bull in its pen, getting a sense of his aggression and tendencies. Watch the bull when he's ridden by other riders.
Definition of Middle Passage. : the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
that which is halfway between extremes, early 14c., from Old French meien middle, means, intermediary, noun use of adjective from Latin medianus of or that is in the middle (see mean (adj.2)). Oldest sense is musical; mathematical sense is from c.1500.