Skating Merit Badge Requirements
Pre-Requisite Requirements are In Red (Be Prepared to Discuss)
1. Do the following:
a) Explain to your counselor the most likely hazards associated with skating and what you should do to anticipate, help prevent, mitigate, and respond to these hazards.
b) Show that you know first aid for injuries or illnesses that could occur while skating, including hypothermia, frostbite, lacerations, abrasions, fractures, sprains and strains, concussions, blisters, heat-related reactions, and shock.
2. Option A—Ice Skating. Do ALL of the following:
1) Explain the general safety and courtesy guidelines for ice skating.
2) Discuss preparations that must be taken when skating outdoors on natural ice. Explain how to make an ice rescue.
3) Discuss the parts and functions of the different types of ice skates.
4) Describe the proper way to carry ice skates at the rink and for travel.
5) Describe how to store ice skates for long periods of time, such as seasonal storage.
6) Skate forward at least 40 feet and come to a complete stop. Use either a two-foot snowplow stop or a one-foot snowplow stop.
7) After skating forward, glide forward on two feet, then on one foot, first right and then left.
8) Starting from a T position, stroke forward around the test area, avoiding the use of toe picks if wearing figure skates.
9) Glide backward on two feet for at least two times the skater's height.
10) Skate backward for at least 20 feet on two skates.
11) After gaining forward speed, glide forward on two feet, making a turn of 180 degrees around a cone, first to the right and then to the left.
12) Perform forward crossovers in a figure-eight pattern.
13) Explain to your counselor the safety considerations for participating in an ice-skating race.
14) Perform a hockey stop.