Snowbagging

Snowbagging is a sport of descending a snowy slope with bags attached to a person's feet. The development of snowbagging was inspired by snowboarding, skating and skateboarding, and the sport shares superficial similarities with skiing. It was developed in the United States.
History
According to the snowbagging.com website, the history of the sport goes back to the year 2005 when it was invented by US skier and snowboarder Kenny Clark who called it snow-bagging. "Kenny was visiting the hospital and forgot to take off the hospital slip-on bags used to cover patients feet. When walking through the snow-covered hospital garden, he almost slipped, but managed not to fall and went for a nice ride." From this experience the "most freestyle" winter sport was born and the first useable snowbag in the world was made the very same day.
The snowbagging.com webside says Kenny started promoting the idea of snowbagging among his friends and that it was a popular side sport for a small group of top snowboarders in the USA and Canada, but quickly became popular around the world. The first European snowbaggers were in Sweden - of course, they were Kenny’s friends. The original snow-bags are made based on the license of SBOB Inc. at three places in the world - Reno, USA, Stockholm and the Czech Republic. Anecdotal evidence suggests tieing a plastic bag on your foot achieves a similar product.
Present
The first international snowbagging race took place in Canada at the beginning of the year of 2007, "laying the foundations for the future Snowbagging World Cup (SWC)".
The first year of the SWC took place at the break of the years of 2007 - 2008. SWC races have taken place in the USA, Canada and Sweden. The finals of the first year took place in the USA.
In 2009 54 snowbaggers from 12 countries are scheduled to participate in the SWC and two European countries, Germany and Slovenia, joined the SWC’s original three countries.
The International Snowbagging Association (ISA) has expanded the SWC competition schedule. The races will take place in ŠpindlerÅ¯v Mlýn, Czech Republic, on 3 - 6 March 2009.
The finals will take place in ŠpindlerÅ¯v mlýn on March 2009.

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