History of SNAG®

Explore the origins of SNAG®! Select one of the dates on the timeline below to see how SNAG® has developed throughout history.

The Snaglodites
The Egyptians
The Moroccans
The Chinese
The Greeks
The Frankciscans
The Aleutian Islands & South Pacific
Joan Of Arc
The Scottish
The Moon
The SNAGheads

The Greeks

In 79 B.C., part of the temple of Walle was uncovered. Valuable instructional tablets were found by a delegation of Greek sporting scholars who took the tablets to their homeland for study. Among them, Pivotus and Rotatus were thrilled with the ease of how SNAG™ was taught. They went to the finest scholars of their day to modify the game to incorporate a heavy and sticky ball attached to a chain with a two-handed grip (launchus heavitus). The object would be to swing the ball and stick it to a target on a great wall.

Hammer throwers were recruited to demonstrate this new game and instruct all the women and children. The finest of the hammer throwers, Snappus Correctus, wowed the children with his prowess. He was the first to develop a training tool that encompassed all the motor skills necessary to play the game. This tool would be a one-cubit stick with a fine silk streamer attached to it. The people loved it because they could visualize the proper swing action. Targets were hung on the Parthenon and launchus heavitus were thrown toward the targets. The practice had a devastating effect on the structural integrity of the Parthenon and other local buildings.

A leading authority on sports instruction, Ledicus, was incensed with this new game and its simple form of instruction. He felt that all worthwhile instruction should involve the complication of mechanical movement and the resulting confusion of the student, thus making the student dependent on the instructor for incremental improvement. He went to the emperor to plead for its removal. The emperor in his wisdom denied Ledicus his request. Ledicus in time saw the wisdom contained in the tablets of Walle and adopted those applications, but not without first getting huge endorsements from Greek and Roman merchants.

Unfortunately, the Emperor put a stop to SNAG™ and ordered it destroyed, as it became a burden on his public works budget. Too much damage to public buildings. The game that endeared the Greek culture would be lost because of budgetary constraints. Snappus Correctus sent all of the instructional material from the tablets of Walle to his brother-in-law, Frankciscus, by messenger to the far north of Normandy. There he knew that all that was good about SNAG™ would eventually resurface under Frankciscus' safe keeping.