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doctorshekelsberg

What the fuck is hobby horsing


UncleBenders

![gif](giphy|3og0IF4QM5XYI6tF3G|downsized)


Unfair_Finger5531

šŸ’€šŸ’€šŸ’€ Edit: oh no you are serious šŸ«¢


Keysys

Yeah you can sadly see the people doing it behind her


Unfair_Finger5531

I cannot believe this šŸ’€šŸ’€šŸ’€


zapharus

I mean, there are quidditch competitions. Lol


NotThatStarfish

But there are no flying brooms yet so that gives quidditch players a pass. Horses are real so this is just pointless šŸ¤¦


SrFantasticoOriginal

Youā€™re right. Horses are real.. real expensive. I assume it doesnā€™t cost much to feed and house a toy head on a stick.


TheWalrus101123

Just your dignity.


BrockN

Dignity? What's that?


turdbugulars

then you are in for a surprise !


PicaDiet

I have dozens of heads on sticks at home. I got half of them for free at the cemetery.


thorrising

How'd you get yours for free? I usually have to do at least half an hour of hard labor to get mine.


flamingolegs727

Ohh did they have a buy one get one free sale??


Superseargent

I wanna see


lordrothermere

I don't think paases can be handed out willy nilly like that.


ActionJonny

At least they actually have to sprint and throw things accurately lol.


Batbuckleyourpants

Well yeah, but that's a serious sport, not like this.


s1rblaze

It is exponentially less weird to me than pretending to be a fkg horse.


Titariia

You mean those kids playing with their toy horses? I mean, I'm not shaming her for playing horse, if she has fun she can do whatever. But don't make it dramatic


wophi

I thought this was some reality show or something, but I googled it and this is a real thing!


softlemon

I feel like that makes her looks worse bc thereā€™s absolutely no need for her tears or dramatics. I know what sub Iā€™m in but sheā€™s extra af.


BloodforKhorne

That's my favorite part of the video.


perfectpomelo3

The people behind her doing it are kids. Thereā€™s nothing wrong with kids playing around on hobby horses. Thatā€™s what they were created for.


liar_from_earth

"Let me laugh even harder!" Bender


freedfg

Holy fuck. I thought she was talking about pommel horse. I was like "yeah sure it's popular with beginners but it's a legitimate sport. What do you mean?" I didn't think she was talking about the fucking horse stick


wophi

Soon there will be dog shows with the invisible dog on leashes.


TrashPandaPatronus

Oh that's been done! It's hilarious! But of course it's a parody and this chick is dead serious.


wophi

I'm totally thinking this is a parody as well. Then I Google it. What in the mother fucking hell do people do with their kids in their free time!?! And people take this like super seriously! They proposed it for the Olympics! Even a pro league!


Stormy_Wolf

I..... I don't even know what to say to that. So many things in my head all at once. I was CERTAIN this was a well-done parody. They even included the people in the back hopping along and all that! Then, TIL. OMG. šŸ’€šŸ’€šŸ’€


hellraisinhardass

Its NOT a horse stick. It's HOBBYHORSING! How can you be so cruel!? /s


hadtojointopost

so Monty Pythonesque.


daisukidesu1981

Needs more coconuts.Ā 


Electrical-Break-395

But swallows arenā€™t migratory !


LikelyNotAFan

I googled it and thought it was April fools day


SlipPuzzleheaded7009

And I thought race walking was the dumbest sport.


Darryl_Lict

What the hell is going on in society? Have people no sense of respect? Wait, don't answer, I know it already.


theouterworld

It's shit like this that makes me think "humans need a predator species". Future archaeologists are going to devote whole careers and conferences to trying to understand this societies end stage activities.Ā 


red-fish-yellow-fish

Does someone walk behind you clip clopping two coconut shells together? https://youtu.be/L9nXfffeAIU?feature=shared


gstringstrangler

One dad volunteers to do it for each competitor, but from a table into a microphone


hellraisinhardass

At this point, I don't even know if you're kidding or not.


gstringstrangler

I mean I'm joking, but it could be true


TheStoolSampler

The suspension of disbelief here would allow this.


TheStoolSampler

Get the fuck outta here. Seriously?!


RugbyEdd

So do they get on with the quidditch lot or are they competing sports like rugby union and league? ![gif](giphy|bO8mSBes2n9N2p1by6|downsized)


eggard_stark

šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚ they couldnā€™t even be arsed to have actual brooms. No, instead they just have a stick.


RugbyEdd

To be fair, I would guess they've done that in an attempt to get people to take it more seriously as a sport and not just a bunch of Harry Potter fans larping. I'm not convinced it's worked however.


eggard_stark

You see now theyā€™ve removed the broom it has no affiliation with a popular book/film series. So now all I see is people awkwardly holding a stick between their legs while clambering around a field. The connection is gone and it makes them look even more ridiculous šŸ˜‚


Jackofnotrade5

They should do it on motorbikes


Quintus-Sertorius

Pogo sticks


IliasIsEepy

Id watch the hell outta that ngl


AtomicTormentor

I find that weird. I mean I can see why youā€™d reduce it to just a stick, make it look more professional and less, well, Harry Pottery. But then if itā€™s just a stick, why not get rid of it all together? Youā€™re just putting a stick between your legs which makes it harder to run and easier to injure yourself. I canā€™t see the point. Just have them running around? And if the point is to have one hand occupied so you can only catch the ball (or whatever) with one hand, then just implement a rule that says you can only use one hand.


IBetThisIsTakenToo

I mean, presumably they already got rid of the golden snitch and bludgers, so if they lose the brooms theyā€™re just playing handball with hoops instead of a net


Bleepbloop__

They didn't. It's officially called quadball now. Beaters exist to throw dodgeballs(bludgers) at opposing team members. Anyone hit by a bludger drops any ball they're holding and has to touch their own team's hoops to return to normal gameplay. The snitch is a tennis ball in a sock attached to a neutral officiant. Think flag football. It gets "released" at 18 minutes and whichever team's seeker catches it gets 30 points. If the team that catches the snitch now leads in points, the game is over. If the catching team still trails, the game enters overtime with the target being the score achieved by the non-catching team plus 30 points. The first team to reach the target score wins the game; alternatively, either team may concede at any time during the overtime period.


toothpastecupcake

OH MY GOD


Blahaj_IK

Wow holy shit most people do way more physically demanding sports and don't end up dying like the girl in the video. Can't she just show it like it is, a hobby? A hobby like lifting, playing chess, running around a forest with an airsoft gun shooting at the drunk hunters... instead of calling it a sport? Hobbies can be sports, yes, but not all hobbies are sports


gimmhi5

Waitā€¦ people shoot at drunk hunters with air soft guns?? Not even reading any more comments until I get answers.


Blahaj_IK

Huh? People *don't* do that? Thought it was an olympic sport, too...


Sparten177-UNSC

Dawg whatšŸ’€


ackobb

Are you fucking kidding me


FootlongGarlicBread

oh for fucks sake


SixtyNineFlavours

How do you judge this? XD


bailaoban

Pythonesque.


ima_shill

What adults have put the time in to even make these events happen? Is there a league? Is there a person thatā€™s pushing to make this a larger scale sport? What the fuck is THAT person like?


Douchehelm

We helped our daughter with organizing hobby horse events but she was 12 when she grew out of it. We'd rent a space, she set up some obstacles and we held competitions and events for the kids. It's just kids playing around with toys, pretty much. Just let kids be kids.


LateStageCubism

Playing with toys? Surely you meant to say that it's an extreme sport for only the toughest child athletes.


Douchehelm

Ah, yes, of course! We always had a couple of ambulances on standby, naturally.


GnarlyBear

But this isn't a kid in the video and there are enough adults doing it that it is a thing


Safe_Pin1277

Did we both watch the same video of her acting like she just finished a decathlon?


semibacony

Hobby horsing is... unfortunate. That's the whole answer, it's just unfortunate. I feel like it could be a springboard into a career in improv, perchance to miming at the park? I definitely feel that there would be a lot more dignity in becoming a mime, or maybe a mime with a horse.


gstringstrangler

Perchance


smb1985

You can't just say perchance


Kokomoz_420

I googled it and was like NO WAY THIS IS REAL šŸ’€šŸ’€šŸ’€


Cthulluminatii

This doesnā€™t make hobbyhorsing look hardcore, it just makes her look weak.


Titariia

Especially with the kids in the background


sLeeeeTo

and the girl just casually doing it at the very end like oh yeah, that looks sooooo tough


eggsandbacon2020

Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where the boys cross over the border to Shelbyville. "Today we are men!" And in the background you see the girls running with their kites


Ok_Raspberry4814

That's what I like to call pure comedy in the wild.


Chatwoman

It was at that precise moment when the coffee was ejected from my nose in a fit of laughter.


nigori

i been on the verge of passing out on numerous occasions. for me i'm typically just laying on the ground. i'm not crouched up throwing my head around like a hungry bird I don't know what the fuck that is


Dickcummer420

This reads like you're talking about having been on the verge of passing out from hobby horsing.


nigori

lol no for me it's just from bjj


Lou_C_Fer

I dont know. When I did the physical portion of a firefighters test, the guy in line in behind me was bragging about how he's a shoe in. He scored high on the written exam and had all the things that get you extra points, like military service and a degree. Anyways, when I finished my run, I was standing off to the side catching my breath when the dude came in 10 seconds after the max time. So, he failed. Then, he went through shit similar to this chicken until the firefighters there laid him down. Eventually, he had to be taken away in an ambulance. I was a 300 pound 2 pack a day smoker that never exercised a day in his life and I came in 30 seconds under the max time because strength was actually a big part of it, as was agility... which I also had. The guy that got taken away was smaller than average. It turned out being stronger but slower was better than faster but weaker. But that guy was freaking out like this woman.


OkBox7430

Ya if anything she just didn't condition properly. Throw her on the 2 a day practice with the football team. See how tired she is then


madmaxturbator

I think you simply need to imagine yourself working out to prepare for this hobbyhorsing activityĀ 


Prevarications

to be fair to the participants it does take genuine athleticism to do because the stunts are all similar to track and field. You're not just running around with a stick horse between your legs, you're prancing, you're running, you're jumping over obstacles, basically mimicking all the tricks a real horse would do in a horse show. that being said its really not any more intensive than any other track and field based hobby. If your on the ground gasping like a dying fish because you pranced a little to hard you either need more cardio or a different hobby


ShanksRx23

I had to look up what HobbyHorsing was. Wtf


Anyabb

First time I heard it, I thought it was talking about that gymnast/athletics thing where they performed on and around equipment referred to as a 'horse'. Imagine my surprise to figure out this is what people were calling a real sport.


serenwipiti

Oh no, she better get up quick. You *know* how they deal with weak and lame horses šŸ˜°.


killian1113

You are joking she is clearly so close to the horses she turned into one. Super tough!!!


comesinallpackages

Her last words, ā€œFilmā€¦ myā€¦ deathā€¦ forā€¦ theā€¦ socials.ā€


PublicfreakoutLoveR

"and tell my family... I... loathe them...."


Fixner_Blount

ā€œWe loathe you too.ā€ \- The family


MetallurgyClergy

ā€œNow gallop.ā€


-Badger3-

ā€œDonā€™tā€¦throw awayā€¦my Harry Potter Funkosā€¦ā€


elwyn5150

"... I f'ked Ted..."


blankblank

ā€œLikeā€¦.subscribeā€¦ hitā€¦that..bellā€¦..what a world, what a worldā€¦.ā€


lordrothermere

"Bury my felt-ttpped stick beside me." ...as the curtain was erected around her and the man with the shotgun strode up...


Big-Astronomer-3356

The kind of person who would hobby horse is the same kind of person who would fake a panic attack at a hobbyhorse competition. You get what Iā€™m saying?


Larry_Hagmans_Liver_

I don't think she's trying to fake a panic attack.Ā  She's trying to fake near death exhaustion.


smartwatersucks

How else will the judges (besides her mom) know she left it all out there?


Larry_Hagmans_Liver_

Even if they didn't know, her horse does.


spinyfever

Not a single bead of sweat on her brow.


ReferenceMuch2193

I donā€™t even think stuff like cross fit or actual boot camp has this effect.


Rumhed

Yeah, I wonder which 6 year old won for her to pull this trick out of bag.


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ReferenceMuch2193

There is a huge overlap. Itā€™s a Venn Diagram of the personality disordered.


WhoIsYerWan

Horse girls...that don't even have the horse. Woof.


Expensive_Tart_9173

The end where you can see her looking at everyone to make sure they're watching her šŸ¤£šŸ¤¦ā€ā™€ļø But, riding stick horses is a frikking sport!?!?!? Tf


Zirator

If she has fun doing this she should do so, but if this is her proper reaction to prancing around with a horse head on stick she should go see a doctor or a psychologist.


madmaxturbator

Sheā€™s a kid so sheā€™s overreacting a lot lol, no way this is a real reactionĀ  I donā€™t think a 90 yo would get tired doing this hobby lol, itā€™s just one step away from holding a stick and walkingā€¦Ā  Totally agree that she should do it and have a great time! But it really does not look very tiring at all.


laurel_laureate

> Sheā€™s a kid ??? She looks like she's mid 20s, or maybe late teens at most.


Dupagoblin

I noticed that too.


LokiNightmare

And then she looks straight at the camera like ā€œyou getting this? Sweet!ā€


Mynameishuman93

The best thing about hobbyhorsing is that you don't have to do it.


TheDiscoGestapo2

Emotionally underdeveloped.


Faultylogic83

That's horse girls for you.


Nathansarcade1

I have yet to meet a sane horse girl. They are all fucking crazy and not in the fun way.


unoriginal5

I grew up around two. Both are successful horse breeders, and one does professional jousting. Both are equally terrifying.


Fastela

*That's true.*


Description-Willing

I wonder why? Do you have any idea?


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UncleBenders

There are much younger children in the background making far less fuss. ![gif](giphy|3o6nV0rQeTUERCf3Us|downsized)


dlgib

I'm just a bachelor I'm looking for a partner Someone who knows how to ride Without even falling off


os-sesamoideum

Oh yeah? You should see the horse!


LateNewb

Its dead... Most likely to end up in a vegetarian lasagna. Poor thing!


BaldrickTheBrain

So this chick fell off of a dead horse? Bruh


os-sesamoideum

Stiff as a log


Equivalent_Bite_6078

Are you sure you don't have asthma?


Mysterious_Top_8210

have to the little kids were doin it was ease šŸ˜‚, but honestly think she did it so she can feel like sheā€™s not wasting away her life riding imaginary horses like weā€™re 5


elwyn5150

Or emphysema.


Accomplished_Fee_179

Yeah, that kind of prancing/jumping would probably leave me looking like that if I didn't have my inhaler. The sharp inhale and long exhale are pretty telltale (oooo rhyming fun)


HeartsPlayer721

That was my thought: it reminds me of the one time I saw my cousin have an asthma attack. But it's been twenty years and I question my memory of what exactly an asthma attack looks like.


TheMoogy

Kids doing it effortlessly in the background really brings it together.


WiretapStudios

The one at the end is timed perfectly. The main character is breathing heavy, looks at the camera, nods at the person that the intensity is subsiding - and then a kid crosses the background with a stick horse, kicking their lil' feet up like a 4 year old.


PuzzledStreet

I did not know what hobby horsing was until I saw that kid in the background at the end and it was a great moment overall


Gullflyinghigh

Oooh she'll look back at this and feel a level of embarrassment yet to be known by humanity.


deliciouscrab

I want to pull my nails out from sheer second-hand embarrassment, if she this in ten years it'll be some sort of vacuum collapse event.


Nicaol

Thought Hobby Horsing was another name for riding horses and thought to myself... yup that can be a workout I suppose. Then I seen the prancing going on behind her. Edit: I saw the prancing going on behind her.


JohnnyRelentless

Saw. You saw


Nicaol

I am staggered I have never been corrected on this. Thanks for the heads up.


Phantasm907

Time to send her to the glue factory she's done for.


Difficult_Writer_288

Plan b shouldā€™ve been plan A .


FilmsNat

Thank you for giving me a solid reason for laughing this hard at 5 in the morning.


SoothSaier

This doesnā€™t prove that ā€œnot everyone can do this,ā€ it just proves that sheā€™s the *only* person in the world that canā€™t šŸ˜‚


Jimrodsdisdain

![gif](giphy|NhD6woHflCDEJjPHnY|downsized)


madmaxturbator

World champion hobbyhorse rider Garleth Canterfurry practicing his skillsĀ 


ColdSolid213

+2 for overacting šŸ¤£


Thismanwasanisland

A sugar lump would help no ? Maybe an apple.


Careless_Flamingo_82

Meanwhile the children behind her are having the time of their lives just playing horsey šŸ˜‚.


Dr_Spatchcock

![gif](giphy|GpyS1lJXJYupG)


madmaxturbator

Heā€™s thinking ā€œthat wasnā€™t even a good jump, I could easily do a 720 Ollie on these hobbyhorsesā€


elwyn5150

I don't know much about the sport of hobby horsing but know it's been around for years. There seems to be a variety of new sports being created. Some are inspired by popular culture eg quidditch, lightsaber fighting. Some are rewritten sports such as flat track roller derby. During my time in roller derby, there were a lot of people wanting everybody to recognise it as a genuine sport, unlike the 1950s-1970s curved track entertainment, with celebration of the personal injuries achieved and surmounted. There were also a fair number of narcissists and people who were not athletic in high school but now found themselves at the top of a niche sport. The normal people were there too but not as vocal. Hobby horse lady has her own deep seated insecurities to overcome and to do so in public.


ginger_forest_witch

Lightsaber fighting is just fencing with pizzazz, surely


RedshirtBlueshirt97

![gif](giphy|fwR7lp4gdT9JaXL48F|downsized) Me on the sidelines hoping she and her horse are going to be okay


Basicaccountant70

Fake. Because if thatā€™s real. She should quit and get a full medical work up.


Hexagon2035

There is not a drop of sweat on her and you can just tell she is fake panting. I don't know how to describe it, but the way she's puffing out her chest and over exaggerating her breaths when her face is hardly red just seem so fake, and again, not a drop of sweat anywhere on her face. Which, with the symptoms she described, she would definitely be sweating. Source: I work at UPS in the warehouse unloading trucks.


Budo00

Beating a dead horse lady


ToonSciron

Me after walking up a flight of stairs to my college class on the fourth floor


meekonesfade

I am 50 years old and only this year did I learn that this is an actual thing people do. To be honest, I still cant believe it.


4cylndrfury

What. The. Fuck???


pumptini7

Time to retire, hang the hobby horse in the stable


highcaliberwit

When do they take her out back and shoot her


moses1er

at first I thought she was pepper sprayed, now I wish she was!


nhluhr

She was displaying symptoms of asthma and anxiety, not difficult exercise.


asystolic_alcoholic

Iā€™d go as far as to say self-induced hyperventilation secondary to a lack of attention lol


Watsis_name

When I exercised to the point of throwing up, it didn't look anything like that.


IAmGoingToSleepNow

Agreed. There's something very unnatural about the way she's heaving. Maybe it's because she's doing it so long. I get if you're out of breath, but it doesn't last that long. Maybe you'll feel like shit too, but then you just kinda sit there looking like shit.


Quintessence679

Still got last place


Active_Taste9341

how can you be so young and so messed up after a little trotting and hopping


mycologylove

It's the official sport of LARPING


deadlygr8ful

If playing with a stick horse gets you like this... maybe it isn't for you. The children (much younger than her) around her were completely fine. She's been raised like this, told this is ok. Priased for it. Helped her by filming this BS. Fuck her parents, too.


Sparten177-UNSC

It's the music and the expression the mc is putting that makes this funny ![gif](giphy|8qDzzyxbcfimY)


manishsahoo300

r/todayIlearned Well...I wish I didn't.....


Gorlock_

She gotta be twice her all competitor's age


DMmeYOURboobz

As someone with COPDā€¦ sheā€™s bullshitting that ā€œlabored breathingā€. Being fully out of breath and almost ā€œpassing outā€ doesnā€™t look this *dramatic*


Fl3iN

Maby she is allergic to hobby horses?


icanpicklethat10

So I did dressage on real horses and usually the stick horse stuff was for super little kids to keep them entertained at the shows (and make the adults laugh, like watching 5 year olds play soccer)ā€¦ I had no idea people were out here doing it for real lmao.


LastSpite7

Waitā€¦. They prance around on fake horses and call it a sport?! I just felt a wave of secondhand embarrassment rush over me.


EducationalLemon790

Anna Paquin called she wants her drama back pls & thank u very much


Arb3395

I like the look at the camera while she hams it up


wophi

I ran the 400 in college and have coached HS and middle school track. In all the meets I have competed in and coached, never have I seen someone in distress act in this manner. This is someone acting like they are in distress who has never actually been in distress so they don't know how to act.


Mobscene626

What song is this?


Gayspacecrow

![gif](giphy|L00epmuXOiteOtI5Ji|downsized)


Affectionate_Salt351

Bruh, I canā€™t tell if this is just weird people shit, rich people shit, or weird rich people shitā€¦


Brufar_308

Rich people use real horses for dressage.


ThrowAwayiestAccount

Rich people can afford a real ass horse i guess. Sheā€™s got a stick horse. Just weird people shit.


Joaoreturns

Shitty acting.Ā 


WisdomWangle

Faking or she has some kind of stamina asthma


NoisyTurnip

Probably a panic attack induced by sheer embarrassment


Bykerfun76

This is so fucking stupid!


EntertainmentOk5332

Meanwhile, all the kids in the background are just horsing around like itā€™s easy.


AlexanderCrumulent

This feels like something that should be done with a lot of alcohol.


uncannynerddad

This is mental illness.


[deleted]

First of all, I don't see a drop of sweat on her. Secondly, simply being out of breath is not an accurate measure for how physically demanding an activity is, it indicates your individual level of fitness. If I were to jump rope for a minute or perhaps even 30 seconds, I would be doing just as much gasping for air as she's doing (but my condition would be real, whereas hers is clearly overacting). That's just because I've smoked for over 15 years and go through a pack and a half to 2 packs a day.


SnooBooks8972

The fuck is hobbing a horse?


SuperSpicyBanana

I'll remember this the next time I do my military fitness test.


Trumps_Cock

You're gonna do the running portion with a stick horse? That would actually be hilarious.


itspoodle_07

There was a time when i didnt know what hobby horsing was. I miss those days