May 16, 2025 • 5 mins
Britt & Laura are taking you DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE and unpacking something niche they've come across on the internet lately. Today... what is hobby horsing?
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hi Heart podcasts, hear more Kiss podcast playlist, and listen
live on the free iHeart app. I want to talk
to you about a new sport that I have discovered online.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And we're calling this segment down the rabbit Hole. It's
where you like, find something super niche online and you
just end up down the rabbit hole. You need to
know everything about it. I have done that.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Then the algorithm spits it out and you just can't stop.
It's like you see one once you thought it was
a little bit interesting, and then all of a sudden,
it's eleven o'clock at night.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
You've been there for forty five minutes.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Now I feel terrible because it makes me laugh a
ludicrous amount, Like I shouldn't be laughing this much.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
It's actually quite impressive. Have you heard of hobby horsing? Yeah,
you don't.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Even have to ask you, because you know I've been
down that rabbit hole with you.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
So if you guys are in the car listening now,
you don't know what hobby horsing is. It's a sport
that generally speaking, adults aren't doing like it seems to
be teenagers and younger. And it is horse jumping and
horse parading in horse.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Show without the horse, but there's no horse.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
So it's in fact like think of when you're a
kid and you get those broomstick horses, like where there's
a broomstick there's got the horse head on it and
had a rein and you would walk it around. Well,
what they're doing is they're getting their horse and it's
a competition where there's proper horse jumping. You have to
parade it around, jump through all the what I don't
(01:29):
know what they call, but you know where horse jumping
has the two poles and the different heights. It's got
to take the jim Knna.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I've never hors ridden, so I don't know, but I
think that the jumps are just called jumps, but I
might be wrong. I'm also not a harsey person, so
I don't know. So you sort of need to see
this to believe it. But it's taken like a weird turn. Okay,
I don't even know how to say it, and I
feel guilty. It's not just show jumping. They start to
treat their horse like it's a real horse. They have
(01:56):
like places for it to live, They have saddles that
they clean, and they like brush its hair, and they
take it to the beach and they film themselves, like
letting it run free on the beach.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
They like film the moment they take it off. I
don't get it. I just don't get it. I want
to also, I want to.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I've also seen a lot of this, and what I've
taken from this is that the people who take hobby
horsing very seriously on social media and I'm almost scared
to talk about it for fear of falling into their wrath,
are people who also really want a horse. So they
really desperately want a horse. Horses are expensive, they're high maintenance,
like you've got to have all of the stuff right
to have a horse. A lot of people can't do it,
(02:37):
and so it's like the next best option. So these
people who are doing the competitions, like they're young girls
or young boys and they're running around jumping over the
jumps themselves with their stick horse.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
And the same as it's like exactly the same as dressage.
If you want to watch dressage at the Olympics, you'd
think you're watching up but there's no horse. But there
is an aspect where I'm like, you guys are actually
really incredible athletes, Like they run as fast as they
can on their horse. They jump as high as they can.
It's like they're doing high jump. What is the highest jumps.
We've got their grace on record for hobby horsing.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
The highest ordered hobby horse jump. Yeah, one point four
one meters.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
That's a big jump on two feet to run with
a stick between your legs and jump one point four meters, Like,
if you google it, it is impressive, But it's just
hard to look past the fake horse for me. Like,
I'm impressed by them, and I love their dedication. They
train in their backyards, they have proper like dressage training,
and I.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Think you're wrong.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
You said it's only for teenagers and young girls.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Here's one for you. I'm Emma.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I begun hobby horsing when I was thirteen. I'm now
forty seven. But friendships are strong. Just always surrounded by women. Obviously,
this is my main horse, my really, as I say
in America, my ride I die. This is grandmother. My
name chapter my grandmother. It is a real competitive sport,
like any other sport. They are bawling rollerblating football. Some
(04:00):
people try to understand. I try to explain to the Americans.
I am Zemichael Jordan of Finland. As far as competitive
hobby horsing, Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
We're gonna put that video up on the pick up
because you do need to see it.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
You need to see it to understand. I feel like
we're not making fun of me. I don't know when not.
It is a sport, it's people's lives. I love it.
I encourage it.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
There are outdoors, they're athletic.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I love it for them. I don't understand it.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
It's impressive, it's competitive, and I'm not going to take
anything away from that.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
However, I do have a question.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
At what point did it turn from just a group
of people who really wanted a horse, couldn't have one,
so then they got a bit fixated with their stick horse.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Why is that turned into a sport?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Why aren't there people walking their toy dogs on a
leash walking down the street.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
That's the way anything turns into a sport. Like I
understand that. Literally, Like what's that sport where it's in
the Olympics and you have to run and scrub the
ice so that the puck curl and curling?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Like we're sorry, who thought that that was a good idea, Like,
it's just the way we have a pastime do things
popularity it becomes a sport. Do you think people get
into these niche sports because they find a way to
be really good at it because there's only like three
people in the country that play it. What's the niche
of sport you ever tried? I'm got a niche sports
person water polo.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
It wasn't me.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I tried to do some random, most random stuff. I
wanted to be a fencer, so I started fencing. Then
I wanted to do clay shooting.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
But we were allowed to have guns, Like that was
the whole thing I wanted to do, Like all the
random left field sports.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Do you know what I'm getting from this? Produce grass?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I'm getting from this that like because Brits made it
very clear she doesn't want to tease the hobby horses.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
She spent a lot of time on this. What would
you do if I bought you one? I reckon watch
this space ten years.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Hobby horsing will be at the Olympics twenty years maybe Wow,
all right,
Hi Heart podcasts, hear more Kiss podcast playlist, and listen
live on the free iHeart app. I want to talk
to you about a new sport that I have discovered online.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And we're calling this segment down the rabbit Hole. It's
where you like, find something super niche online and you
just end up down the rabbit hole. You need to
know everything about it. I have done that.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Then the algorithm spits it out and you just can't stop.
It's like you see one once you thought it was
a little bit interesting, and then all of a sudden,
it's eleven o'clock at night.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
You've been there for forty five minutes.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Now I feel terrible because it makes me laugh a
ludicrous amount, Like I shouldn't be laughing this much.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
It's actually quite impressive. Have you heard of hobby horsing? Yeah,
you don't.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Even have to ask you, because you know I've been
down that rabbit hole with you.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
So if you guys are in the car listening now,
you don't know what hobby horsing is. It's a sport
that generally speaking, adults aren't doing like it seems to
be teenagers and younger. And it is horse jumping and
horse parading in horse.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Show without the horse, but there's no horse.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
So it's in fact like think of when you're a
kid and you get those broomstick horses, like where there's
a broomstick there's got the horse head on it and
had a rein and you would walk it around. Well,
what they're doing is they're getting their horse and it's
a competition where there's proper horse jumping. You have to
parade it around, jump through all the what I don't
(01:29):
know what they call, but you know where horse jumping
has the two poles and the different heights. It's got
to take the jim Knna.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I've never hors ridden, so I don't know, but I
think that the jumps are just called jumps, but I
might be wrong. I'm also not a harsey person, so
I don't know. So you sort of need to see
this to believe it. But it's taken like a weird turn. Okay,
I don't even know how to say it, and I
feel guilty. It's not just show jumping. They start to
treat their horse like it's a real horse. They have
(01:56):
like places for it to live, They have saddles that
they clean, and they like brush its hair, and they
take it to the beach and they film themselves, like
letting it run free on the beach.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
They like film the moment they take it off. I
don't get it. I just don't get it. I want
to also, I want to.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I've also seen a lot of this, and what I've
taken from this is that the people who take hobby
horsing very seriously on social media and I'm almost scared
to talk about it for fear of falling into their wrath,
are people who also really want a horse. So they
really desperately want a horse. Horses are expensive, they're high maintenance,
like you've got to have all of the stuff right
to have a horse. A lot of people can't do it,
(02:37):
and so it's like the next best option. So these
people who are doing the competitions, like they're young girls
or young boys and they're running around jumping over the
jumps themselves with their stick horse.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
And the same as it's like exactly the same as dressage.
If you want to watch dressage at the Olympics, you'd
think you're watching up but there's no horse. But there
is an aspect where I'm like, you guys are actually
really incredible athletes, Like they run as fast as they
can on their horse. They jump as high as they can.
It's like they're doing high jump. What is the highest jumps.
We've got their grace on record for hobby horsing.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
The highest ordered hobby horse jump. Yeah, one point four
one meters.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
That's a big jump on two feet to run with
a stick between your legs and jump one point four meters, Like,
if you google it, it is impressive, But it's just
hard to look past the fake horse for me. Like,
I'm impressed by them, and I love their dedication. They
train in their backyards, they have proper like dressage training,
and I.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Think you're wrong.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
You said it's only for teenagers and young girls.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Here's one for you. I'm Emma.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I begun hobby horsing when I was thirteen. I'm now
forty seven. But friendships are strong. Just always surrounded by women. Obviously,
this is my main horse, my really, as I say
in America, my ride I die. This is grandmother. My
name chapter my grandmother. It is a real competitive sport,
like any other sport. They are bawling rollerblating football. Some
(04:00):
people try to understand. I try to explain to the Americans.
I am Zemichael Jordan of Finland. As far as competitive
hobby horsing, Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
We're gonna put that video up on the pick up
because you do need to see it.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
You need to see it to understand. I feel like
we're not making fun of me. I don't know when not.
It is a sport, it's people's lives. I love it.
I encourage it.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
There are outdoors, they're athletic.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I love it for them. I don't understand it.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
It's impressive, it's competitive, and I'm not going to take
anything away from that.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
However, I do have a question.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
At what point did it turn from just a group
of people who really wanted a horse, couldn't have one,
so then they got a bit fixated with their stick horse.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Why is that turned into a sport?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Why aren't there people walking their toy dogs on a
leash walking down the street.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
That's the way anything turns into a sport. Like I
understand that. Literally, Like what's that sport where it's in
the Olympics and you have to run and scrub the
ice so that the puck curl and curling?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Like we're sorry, who thought that that was a good idea, Like,
it's just the way we have a pastime do things
popularity it becomes a sport. Do you think people get
into these niche sports because they find a way to
be really good at it because there's only like three
people in the country that play it. What's the niche
of sport you ever tried? I'm got a niche sports
person water polo.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
It wasn't me.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I tried to do some random, most random stuff. I
wanted to be a fencer, so I started fencing. Then
I wanted to do clay shooting.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
But we were allowed to have guns, Like that was
the whole thing I wanted to do, Like all the
random left field sports.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Do you know what I'm getting from this? Produce grass?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I'm getting from this that like because Brits made it
very clear she doesn't want to tease the hobby horses.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
She spent a lot of time on this. What would
you do if I bought you one? I reckon watch
this space ten years.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Hobby horsing will be at the Olympics twenty years maybe Wow,
all right,
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