 The sport widely called Adaptive Snowboarding held its first official competition at the 2000 <unk> Nationals in Waterville Valley NH , USA . The <unk> <unk> adaptive snowboarding competitions in North America through 2008 , after which the World Snowboard Federation accepted international governance beginning in 2009 . It is now practiced by hundreds of athletes around the world , and governed by the International Paralympic Committee ( IPC ) . The IPC and the WSF signed a memorandum of understanding in July 2009 under which the WSF would continue to govern the sport until 2014 , after which the situation would be reassessed . Both organisations would continue their efforts to develop the sport . IPC Alpine Skiing governs snowboarding as well as alpine skiing , and the two share a common set of regulations . In explaining the change of the name of the sport , the WSF stated that : 
