News, Finland's New Craze: Hobby-Horsing (country, Finnish, girls)

[JD59]

Thousands of teen girls and their fake horses have spawned a new subculture.

Sporting a leather jacket, dyed red hair, and tattoos, Alisa Aarniomaki looks like she's on her way to band rehearsal. But instead of a guitar, the 20-year-old Finn gently holds on to something else: a puffy stuffed horse head on a wooden stick complete with glued-on eyes, mane, and reins. She's been riding real horses from the age of 10 but became instantly smitten by hobby-horsing—a sport with gymnastic elements that has spawned a social media subculture among Finnish teen girls—when she first heard about it several years ago, reports the AP.

Finland's New Craze: Hobby-Horsing

[good_deal_maker]

This is how it looks like:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2IegXZ0NkM

Finland is a Northern country so Hobby-Horsing is a good alternative for surfing.

[Ariete]

Finland is so introvert and blah blah that it cannot create a this kind of extrovert hobby.


Let the girls (and boys) play, it's no different from other fantasy things like playing an elf in a LOTR fantasy.


Yeah, I find it a bit ridiculous too, but I have nothing but admiration for the girls who had the guts to come out and be the spokepersons to a thing most of us will laugh at.

[erasure]

Originally Posted by good_deal_maker

This is how it looks like:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2IegXZ0NkM

Finland is a Northern country so Hobby-Horsing is a good alternative for surfing.