Women take over woodchopping | Back Roads | ABC Australia

Описание: More women are taking up the sport of competitive woodchopping. Lisa Millar meets world champion Amanda Beams, fourth generation chopper Layla Maine, and ventures to one of Tasmania’s oldest and most celebrated woodchopping carnivals, ‘The Henley on Mersey’, where Layla competes with her idol Amanda in the same category.

You can watch the full episode of the Tassie Woodchoppers on ABC iview: https://iview.abc.net.au/video/RF2427...

00:00 Meet Amanda Beams, World Champion Australian woodchopper
01:25 Finding love in woodchopping
02:03 Breaking into a male dominant sport as a woman
03:23 Woodchopping's importance to Amanda
03:50 Meet the Maine Family
04:10 15-year-old Layla starts her woodchopping career
04:59 Layla and Amanda go head to head!

For more stories about the Australian outback, unique rural towns and the road less travelled watch Back Roads on ABC iview.


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