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Swimming 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 Swimming Belt Loop:
  1. Explain the rules of Safe Swim Defense.  Emphasize the buddy system.
  2. Play a recreational game in the water with your Den, Pack or family.
  3. While holding a kick board, propel yourself 25 feet using a flutter kick across the shallow end of the swimming pool.

 

Requirements for the Swimming Pin:

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

  1. Practice the breathing motion of the crawl stroke while standing in shallow water.  Take a breath, place your head in thw water, exhale and turn your head to the side to take a breath.  Repeat.
  2. Learn two (2) of the following strokes: crawl, backstroke, elementary backstroke, sidestroke or breaststroke.
  3. Learn the following floating skills: prone, facedown float and back float.  The purpose of the float is to provide the swimmer the opportunity to rest in the water.
  4.  
    Using a kickboard, demonstrate three kinds of kicks.
  5. Pass the "beginner" or "swimmer" swim level test.
  6. Visit with a lifeguard and talk about swimming safety in various situations (pool, lake,river, ocean).  Learn about the training a lifeguard needs for his or her job.
  7. Explain the four rescue techniques: reach, throw, row and go (with support).
  8. Take swimming lessons.
  9. Attend a swim meet at a school, recreation or community pool.
  10.   Tread water for thirty (30) seconds.
  11.   Learn about a U.S. swimmer who has earned a medal in the Olympics.
  12.   Demonstrate the proper usee of a mask and snorkel in a swimming area where your feet can touch the bottom.