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PUEBLO, Colo. – Valdiron de Oliveira will turn 36 years old during the middle of next season, and he understands that it is getting harder to succeed alongside the next generation of PBR bull riders.

Oliveira laughs when his age is brought up.

The 35-year-old knows you can’t fight off Father Time physically, therefore, he is going to try and think like the younger riders on the BFTS in the New Year.

“I want to work on my mind and my body,” he said. “If you think like an old man you can’t ride good.

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You have to think like a young bull rider and all of these kids. You can’t think, ‘Oh, I am old. I can’t ride.’ You have to try like these young kids.”

It is why Oliviera recently competed at the L.J. Jenkins Invitational this past weekend in Clovis, N.M., and partially why he is tentatively scheduled to ride at the BlueDEF Velocity Tour events in Ontario, California, and Bakersfield, California, later this month.

Along with trying to remain in good riding shape for 2015, he also wa