Snowboarding
Snowboarding is another young kind of sport that has developed into a whole industry due to its novelty, popularity, originality and dynamism. Snowboarding is basically descending slopes covered with snow on a special board with locks for feet. A snowboarder is supposed to wear special boots that are fitted in these locks.
Snowboarding has many similarities with other disciplines like skateboarding and surfing, although it is arguably a variation of skiing, as it is much like skiing: a person descends snowy slopes and performs different tricks while surfing or when doing various jumps. The only difference is the type of board under your feet. In skiing you stand straight on your skis and look right ahead. In snowboarding you stand sideways and look on your right most of the time.
Just like many other "boarding" disciplines the modern snowboarding was discovered in the USA in the second half of the twentieth century. The first snowboard was designed by Sherman Poppen in 1965 in Michigan and was called Snurfer (a combination of the words "snow" and "surfer"). Later on first snowboards were sold in stores as toys for children. Some time later it developed into an independent discipline with many subtypes and its own peculiarities. The known disciplines of snowboarding are freestyle, freeride, dry slope, free carve and others. Snowboarding has become so popular today that people just can't live without it when there's no snow at all – a completely new sport was invented called sandboarding – instead of snowy slopes riders go down sand dunes.