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Snow Ski & Board Sports Belt Loop
Complete these three requirements:
- Explain the
conditioning, clothing, equipment, and
planning needed for snow skiing or boarding.
- Be able to explain
safety and courtesy codes for a downhill or
cross-country trip.
- Go skiing or snow
boarding. Demonstrate how to stop and turn.
Snow Ski & Board Sports Pin
Earn the Snow Ski & Board
Sports belt
loop, and complete five of the following requirements:
- Explain the different
kinds of ski lifts. Use one.
- Describe the four
universal symbols used to indicate ski trail
difficulty.
- Demonstrate how to
hold your position, get up from a fall, and
do basic turns
- Demonstrate how to
fall safely to avoid injury.
- Demonstrate five
cross country skills, such as a kick turn,
diagonal stride, double pole, side-step,
step turn, herringbone, straight downhill
running, cross-country snowplow,
sideslipping, pole drag, diagonal stride
uphill, and traverse.
- Participate in a game
using skis or boards; such as relays, races,
or racing around poles or flags.
- Explain what to do if
you see a skiing or snow boarding accident.
Discuss the dangers of avalanche.
- Take skiing or snow
boarding lessons.
- View a film on skiing
or snow boarding.
- Talk with a member of
a ski patrol and learn about the job he or
she does at the ski slope.
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