

Cub Scouts Ice Skating Sports Belt Loop and Pin
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Earn the Ice Skating belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements:
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.
Requirements for the Ice Skating Belt Loop
Complete these three requirements:
- Explain ways to protect yourself while ice skating, and the need for proper safety equipment.
- Spend at least 30 minutes practicing the skills of skating.
- Go ice skating with a family member or den for at least three hours, in up to three one-hour outings. Chart your time.
Requirements for the Ice Skating Pin
Earn the Ice Skating belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements:
- Participate in a pack or community ice skating event.
- Demonstrate how to sharpen your skates correctly.
- Demonstrate how to lace, assemble, and dissemble your skates correctly.
- On two different occasions, spend at least 15 minutes practicing warm-up exercises before 30 minutes of skating.
- Play a skating game on the ice.
- Learn two new figure-skating skills: forward swizzles, glides, backward swizzles, and backward wiggle.
- Demonstrate how to "start" in a speed skating race.
- Explain the difference between long-track and short-track speed skating.
- Participate in a skating skill development clinic.
- Tell about an Olympian athlete in figure skating or speed skating. What were some of his or her best traits?
- Play a game of ice hockey.
- Participate in a hockey skill development clinic.
Comments:
Dec 10, 2013 - Kelly
I understand that participation is optional, but three hours of ice skating seems excessive when you consider that most of the other sport belt loops require only one game or 30 minutes of skill demonstration. Please also consider that ice time is usually limited on any rink and obtaining this belt loop can be quite pricey for those individuals who are motivated to earn it.
Mar 06, 2014 - Cindy
Explain ways to protect yourself while ice skating, and the need for proper safety equipment.
Where are the answers to this component of the Belt Loop, BSA? I have been searching forever. Helmets are not usually part of casual skating - what other safety equipment is there? How can you protect yourself while ice skating?
Do I really have to go to the U.S. Winter Sports Federation and research all this? Why can't the BSA list what they expect a Cub Scout to know with respect to these requirements?
Mar 06, 2014 - Angry Dad
It seems to me that they would be the same protective gear as skateboarding and other blade sports...wrist guards, helmet, knee pads, and elbow pads. I have seen many kids wearing wrist guards and knee pads when learning to ice skate.
Apr 11, 2014 - Karen
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