“Suerte de Muleta”

The Suerte de muleta is fundamental to determine the
triumph or failure of the bullfighter. It is in this phase that the
bullfighter, facing the bull alone, must demonstrate his close
and personal idea of what it means to be a bullfighter. At the sound
of the bugles and the drums, the bullfighter receives the red cape and the sword from the swordsman’s assistant. If it is the bullfighter’s first bull, he addresses the presidency to request the appropriate permission and after paying homage, or perhaps not, to the death of the animal, he goes to the bull.
The bull will be taken by the matador’s support team to the place selected by the bullfighter. From there, if the animal responds, he takes the bull into the middle of the ring, where a sense of solitude is even more pronounced. “La Faena” is a collection of a series of connected
steps the bullfighter makes, remaining still while the
bull circles him. The bullfighter´s intent, through the
power of his cape and not because of the bull´s natural
fierceness, is to make the animal charge. The most
valued elements in this stage are the excitement of the
bullfighter´s execution of steps, together with the courage
the bull displays to oppose difficulties. This ends with the
“Suerte suprema”, and is followed with the killing of the bull.