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Ice Skating Belt Loop and Pin
 
 
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Tiger Cubs, Cub Scouts, and Webelos Scouts may complete requirements in a 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.
 
Requirements for Ice Skating Belt Loop:
  1. Explain ways to protect yourself while ice skating and the need for proper safety equipment.
  2. Spend at least 30 minutes practicing the skills of skating.
  3. Go ice skating with a family member, Den Leader or den for at least three (3) hours.  Chart your time.

 

Requirements for the Ice Skating Pin:

Earn the Ice Skating Belt Loop and complete five more of the following requirements:

  1. Participate in a pack, recreation or community ice skating event.
  2. Demonstrate how to sharpen your skates correctly.
  3. Demonstrate how to lace, assemble and disassemble your skate correctly.
  4. On two (2) occasions, spend at least thirty (30) minutes practicing warm-up exercises before skating.
  5. Play a skating game on the ice.
  6. Learn two new figure-skating skills: forward swizzles, glides, backward swizzles and backward wiggle.
  7. Demonstrate how to "start" in a speed skating race.
  8. Explain the difference between long-track and short-track speed skating.
  9. Participate in a skating skill development clinic.
  10.   Tell about an Olympian athlete in figure skating or speed skating.  What were some of his or her best trait's?
  11.   Play a game of ice hockey.
  12.   Participate in a hockey skill development clinic.