Snakeboarding

Snakeboarding is an adventure sport developed from the sport of skateboarding with influences also from snowboarding and surfing and is generally performed on a special kind of board. This board is called the snakeboard because the zigzag motion it generally takes resembles the movement of a snake. The sport is generally played in the streets like skateboarding, yet the game never became as much popular as skateboarding. This is because with the board having pivoting footplates , the free feeling of a skateboard is absent in Snakeboarding. The snakeboard rider can take the board any direction he wants just by moving his feet out of the line of the shoulder and by shifting the body weight.

Invented by James Fisher and Oliver Macleod Smith in 1989, the board, known as Snakeboard today, was actually a product of the company named Snakeboard . The product also became famous in the name of the company itself. The users can even ride a snakeboard uphill and also perform several skills and extreme stunts with these. The sport of Snakeboarding is quite common in the present days. However, a different name is used to describe it now and it is widely known as Street boarding .

The popularity of Skateboarding has diminished the chance of acceptance of Snakeboarding. The later is also more perilous as the risk of injury is there. Yet it has long been and continues to be among the favorite adventure sports of a number of persons round the world.