Sport in Cardiff developing shooting sports in Wales. Cardiff Rifle Club (primarily a .22 smallbore rifle club) is also based in the Roath/Cathays area of the city. The Ski & Snowboard Centre Cardiff, Fairwater – managed by Snowsport Cymru/Wales – consists of a floodlit dry ski slope, with an overhead poma ski lift and lubrication roller, to ensure good skiing and snowboarding conditions—even in dry weather. Snowsport Cymru/Wales, based at the Cardiff Ski & Snowboard Centre, is the governing body of skiing and snowboarding in Wales. Its membership comprises individuals, schools, corporate sponsors and six affiliated clubs. Snowsport Cymru/Wales selects, organises and trains
Fairwater, Double Bay incorrectly domiciled as located in the suburb of Point Piper. A Crown grant was part of Captain John Piper's Point Piper Estate officially granted in 1820. This grant was subsequently acquired by Daniel Cooper and Solomon Levy in 1830. The subdivision of this part of Cooper's estate, known as the Point Piper Estate, commenced in the mid 1850s. The first leasehold title to the allotment, which was to become "Fairwater", was made in January 1863 to Edwin Thomas Beilby. Beilby (-1906) was a businessman associated with many of the prominent Sydney financial institutions of the nineteenth century. The leasehold title