Speaker 1: Hi Heart podcasts, hear more Kiss podcast playlist, and listen
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Speaker 1: to you about a new sport that I have discovered online.
Speaker 2: And we're calling this segment down the rabbit Hole. It's
Speaker 2: where you like, find something super niche online and you
Speaker 2: just end up down the rabbit hole. You need to
Speaker 2: know everything about it. I have done that.
Speaker 1: Then the algorithm spits it out and you just can't stop.
Speaker 1: It's like you see one once you thought it was
Speaker 1: a little bit interesting, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it's eleven o'clock at night.
Speaker 3: You've been there for forty five minutes.
Speaker 2: Now I feel terrible because it makes me laugh a
Speaker 2: ludicrous amount, Like I shouldn't be laughing this much.
Speaker 3: It's actually quite impressive. Have you heard of hobby horsing? Yeah,
Speaker 3: you don't.
Speaker 1: Even have to ask you, because you know I've been
Speaker 1: down that rabbit hole with you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So if you guys are in the car listening now,
Speaker 1: you don't know what hobby horsing is. It's a sport
Speaker 1: that generally speaking, adults aren't doing like it seems to
Speaker 1: be teenagers and younger. And it is horse jumping and
Speaker 1: horse parading in horse.
Speaker 3: Show without the horse, but there's no horse.
Speaker 2: So it's in fact like think of when you're a
Speaker 2: kid and you get those broomstick horses, like where there's
Speaker 2: a broomstick there's got the horse head on it and
Speaker 2: had a rein and you would walk it around. Well,
Speaker 2: what they're doing is they're getting their horse and it's
Speaker 2: a competition where there's proper horse jumping. You have to
Speaker 2: parade it around, jump through all the what I don't
Speaker 2: know what they call, but you know where horse jumping
Speaker 2: has the two poles and the different heights. It's got
Speaker 2: to take the jim Knna.
Speaker 1: I've never hors ridden, so I don't know, but I
Speaker 1: think that the jumps are just called jumps, but I
Speaker 1: might be wrong. I'm also not a harsey person, so
Speaker 1: I don't know. So you sort of need to see
Speaker 1: this to believe it. But it's taken like a weird turn. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't even know how to say it, and I
Speaker 1: feel guilty. It's not just show jumping. They start to
Speaker 1: treat their horse like it's a real horse. They have
Speaker 1: like places for it to live, They have saddles that
Speaker 1: they clean, and they like brush its hair, and they
Speaker 1: take it to the beach and they film themselves, like
Speaker 1: letting it run free on the beach.
Speaker 3: They like film the moment they take it off. I
Speaker 3: don't get it. I just don't get it. I want
Speaker 3: to also, I want to.
Speaker 1: I've also seen a lot of this, and what I've
Speaker 1: taken from this is that the people who take hobby
Speaker 1: horsing very seriously on social media and I'm almost scared
Speaker 1: to talk about it for fear of falling into their wrath,
Speaker 1: are people who also really want a horse. So they
Speaker 1: really desperately want a horse. Horses are expensive, they're high maintenance,
Speaker 1: like you've got to have all of the stuff right
Speaker 1: to have a horse. A lot of people can't do it,
Speaker 1: and so it's like the next best option. So these
Speaker 1: people who are doing the competitions, like they're young girls
Speaker 1: or young boys and they're running around jumping over the
Speaker 1: jumps themselves with their stick horse.
Speaker 2: And the same as it's like exactly the same as dressage.
Speaker 2: If you want to watch dressage at the Olympics, you'd
Speaker 2: think you're watching up but there's no horse. But there
Speaker 2: is an aspect where I'm like, you guys are actually
Speaker 2: really incredible athletes, Like they run as fast as they
Speaker 2: can on their horse. They jump as high as they can.
Speaker 2: It's like they're doing high jump. What is the highest jumps.
Speaker 2: We've got their grace on record for hobby horsing.
Speaker 3: The highest ordered hobby horse jump. Yeah, one point four
Speaker 3: one meters.
Speaker 1: That's a big jump on two feet to run with
Speaker 1: a stick between your legs and jump one point four meters, Like,
Speaker 1: if you google it, it is impressive, But it's just
Speaker 1: hard to look past the fake horse for me. Like,
Speaker 1: I'm impressed by them, and I love their dedication. They
Speaker 1: train in their backyards, they have proper like dressage training,
Speaker 1: and I.
Speaker 3: Think you're wrong.
Speaker 1: You said it's only for teenagers and young girls.
Speaker 3: Here's one for you. I'm Emma.
Speaker 4: I begun hobby horsing when I was thirteen. I'm now
Speaker 4: forty seven. But friendships are strong. Just always surrounded by women. Obviously,
Speaker 4: this is my main horse, my really, as I say
Speaker 4: in America, my ride I die. This is grandmother. My
Speaker 4: name chapter my grandmother. It is a real competitive sport,
Speaker 4: like any other sport. They are bawling rollerblating football. Some
Speaker 4: people try to understand. I try to explain to the Americans.
Speaker 4: I am Zemichael Jordan of Finland. As far as competitive
Speaker 4: hobby horsing, Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1: We're gonna put that video up on the pick up
Speaker 1: because you do need to see it.
Speaker 3: You need to see it to understand. I feel like
Speaker 3: we're not making fun of me. I don't know when not.
Speaker 3: It is a sport, it's people's lives. I love it.
Speaker 3: I encourage it.
Speaker 1: There are outdoors, they're athletic.
Speaker 3: I love it for them. I don't understand it.
Speaker 1: It's impressive, it's competitive, and I'm not going to take
Speaker 1: anything away from that.
Speaker 3: However, I do have a question.
Speaker 1: At what point did it turn from just a group
Speaker 1: of people who really wanted a horse, couldn't have one,
Speaker 1: so then they got a bit fixated with their stick horse.
Speaker 3: Why is that turned into a sport?
Speaker 1: Why aren't there people walking their toy dogs on a
Speaker 1: leash walking down the street.
Speaker 2: That's the way anything turns into a sport. Like I
Speaker 2: understand that. Literally, Like what's that sport where it's in
Speaker 2: the Olympics and you have to run and scrub the
Speaker 2: ice so that the puck curl and curling?
Speaker 1: Like we're sorry, who thought that that was a good idea, Like,
Speaker 1: it's just the way we have a pastime do things
Speaker 1: popularity it becomes a sport. Do you think people get
Speaker 1: into these niche sports because they find a way to
Speaker 1: be really good at it because there's only like three
Speaker 1: people in the country that play it. What's the niche
Speaker 1: of sport you ever tried? I'm got a niche sports
Speaker 1: person water polo.
Speaker 3: It wasn't me.
Speaker 2: I tried to do some random, most random stuff. I
Speaker 2: wanted to be a fencer, so I started fencing. Then
Speaker 2: I wanted to do clay shooting.
Speaker 1: But we were allowed to have guns, Like that was
Speaker 1: the whole thing I wanted to do, Like all the
Speaker 1: random left field sports.
Speaker 3: Do you know what I'm getting from this? Produce grass?
Speaker 1: I'm getting from this that like because Brits made it
Speaker 1: very clear she doesn't want to tease the hobby horses.
Speaker 3: She spent a lot of time on this. What would
Speaker 3: you do if I bought you one? I reckon watch
Speaker 3: this space ten years.
Speaker 1: Hobby horsing will be at the Olympics twenty years maybe Wow,
Speaker 1: all right,