Hobby Horsing: Serious Sport or Eccentric Make-Believe?
Dressage or show jumping on a hobby horse? What sounds like an activity for imaginative little girls is also an international competitive sport, known as hobby horsing. Some people may laugh at the sport, but it makes Nara Arlin from Finland feel confident. We follow her as she competes in the Finnish Hobbyhorse Championships.
Would you like to ride a hobby horse?
CHAPTERS
00:00 Introducing hobby horser Nara Arlin
00:43 What is hobby horsing?
01:23 How Nara came to hobby horsing
02:22 The road to recognition
03:18 Nara competes in the show-jumping discipline
04:20 And the winner is…
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CREDITS
Report: Christian Weibezahn
Additional Research: Josephine Günther
Camera: Ruben Parthoens, Oskari Kivimäki
Edit: Sebastian Ziegler, Antje Lass
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