Skating


Tiger Cubs, Cub Scouts, and Webelos Scouts may complete requirements in a family, den, pack, school, or community environment. Tiger Cubs must work with their parents or adult partners. Parents and partners do not earn loops or pins.

Belt Loop
Complete these three requirements:
______ 1.  Explain ways to protect yourself while skating, and the need for proper safety equipment.
______ 2.  Spend at least 30 minutes practicing skating skills.
______ 3.  Go skating with a family member or your den for a total of at least three hours. Chart your time.

Sports Pin
Earn the Skating belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements:
______  1.  Participate in a pack or community skating event.
______  2.  Demonstrate how to care for your skates.
______  3.  Explain the proper clothing (including any safety equipment) needed for skating.
______  4.  Find out about some stretching exercises to do as a skating warm-up, and spend at least 10 minutes, on two occasions, practicing them.
______  5.  Play a game of ice or roller hockey.
______  6.  Learn how to do two new skating skills in the area of skating you have chosen (traditional or in-line roller skating, or ice skating), e.g., for roller skating, forward scissors and crossover; for ice skating, forward and backwards swizzles and glides.
______  7.  Participate in a skating skills development clinic.
______  8.  Draw a layout for an ice hockey arena.
______  9.  Explain skating safety/courtesy rules to your adult partner and always practice them!
 
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