Skater
Cub Scouts develop basic ice and/or in-line skating knowledge and skills.
Requirements
- Know and discuss the safety rules for skating. For ice skating, include ice safety. For roller skating and in-fine skating, include street safety and use of protective gear such as helmet, pads and gloves.
- Show how to care for your skating equipment.
- Demonstrate how to start and stop on a given signal. Then demonstrate any five of the following moves:
- Skate forward with arms free or behind body
- Skate backward
- Make turns to left and right, cutting corners
- Skate in a curve counter-clockwise
- Glide on one skate for three metres
- Forward and back edges on alternate feet on curves not less than five metres
- Forward cross cuts, clockwise and counterclockwise, on a circle three metres in diameter
- Back cross cuts, clockwise and counterclockwise, on a circle three metres in diameter
- Two jumps with clean and controlled landings
- A simple spin on two feet
