BADMINTON
Belt Loop
Complete these three requirements:
1.Explain the rules of badminton to
your leader or adult partner.
2.Spend at least 30 minutes
practicing badminton skills.
3.Participate in a badminton game.
Sports Pin
Earn the Badminton belt loop, and
complete five of the following requirements:
1.Compete in a pack or community
badminton tournament.
2.Demonstrate your knowledge of the
use and care of the equipment needed to play badminton:
shuttlecock (shuttle or bird),
racket, court, net, and comfortable clothes and shoes.
3.Demonstrate skill in the following
grip techniques: forehand and backhand.
4.Spend at least 60 minutes
practicing to develop skills for shots and strokes (clear,
drive, drop, and
smash). Keep track of your time
on a chart.
5.Demonstrate skill in the
following: hit the shuttle using forehand or backhand; hit the
shuttle,
alternating forehand and
backhand; hit the shuttle against the wall with a forehand or
backhand; hit
the shuttle against the wall,
alternating forehand and backhand.
6.Accurately lay out a badminton
court, including net and lines.
7.Play five games of badminton.
8.Participate in a badminton skills
development clinic.
9.Play at least three games during
which you make your own foul calls effectively to your leader's
satisfaction.
BASEBALL
Belt Loop
Complete these three requirements:
1.Explain the rules of baseball to
your leader or adult partner.
2.Spend at least 30 minutes
practicing baseball skills.
3.Participate in a baseball game.
Sports Pin
Earn the Baseball belt loop, and
complete five of the following requirements:
1.Participate in a pack or community
baseball tournament.
2.Demonstrate skill in two of the
following throwing techniques: overhand, sidearm, underhand, and
the relay throw.
3.Demonstrate skill in two of the
following catching techniques: fielding a ground ball, fielding
a
pop-up, catching a line drive.
4.Demonstrate correct pitching
techniques.
5.Demonstrate correct hitting
techniques.
6.Explain the rules of base running.
Explain base coaching signals.
7.Demonstrate skill in the following
sliding techniques: the straight-in slide, the hook slide, and
the
headfirst slide.
8.Play five games of baseball using
standard baseball rules.
9.Draw a baseball field to scale or
set one up for play.
10.Attend a high school, college, or
professional baseball game.
11.Read a book about a baseball
player and give a report about him or her to your den or family.
BASKETBALL
Belt Loop
Complete these three requirements:
1.Explain the rules of basketball to
your leader or adult partner.
2.Spend at least 30 minutes
practicing basketball skills.
3.Participate in a basketball game.
Sports Pin
Earn the Basketball belt loop, and
complete five of the following requirements:
1.Compete in a pack or community
basketball tournament.
2.Demonstrate effective passing
using the chest pass, bounce pass, over-the-head pass, and
baseball
pass.
3.Successfully demonstrate the set
shot and jump shot shooting styles.
4.Demonstrate skill in the following
dribbling techniques: high dribble, low dribble, turnable
dribble,
change-of-pace dribble, and
combination dribble.
5.Spend at least 30 minutes on three
different occasions developing individual defensive skills.
6.Explain and demonstrate 10
official basketball signals.
7.Play three -shot-improving games
with a member of your den or team.
8.Play five games of basketball.
9.Participate in a basketball
clinic.
10.Attend a high school, college, or
professional basketball game.
BICYCLING
Belt Loop
Complete these three requirements:
1.Explain the rules of safe
bicycling to your den leader or adult partner.
2. Demonstrate how to wear the
proper safety equipment for bicycling. *
3. Show how to ride a bike safely. Ride for at least
half an hour with an adult partner, your family, or your den.
Sports Pin
Earn the Bicycling belt loop, complete
requirement 1 below, and do four additional requirements
1. Make a chart to record at least
10 hours of bicycling. (Required) *
2.Participate in a pack, den, or
community bike rodeo.
3.Demonstrate how to repair a flat
tire on a bicycle.
4.Make a poster illustrating
different types of early bikes and show it to your den.
5. Give a demonstration to your den
or pack on the proper use of safety equipment and gear. *
6. With the help of a parent or
adult partner, register or reregister your bicycle.
7.Go on a "bicycle hike" with your
family or den. Obey traffic rules related to bicycling.
8.Repair or restore a
nonfunctioning bicycle to a safe condition. Include the
installation of all proper safety devices.
9.Visit a bicycle race or
exhibition.
10.Help set up a bike rodeo or bike
competition for your pack.
*Changes
as of 2002
BOWLING
Belt Loop
Complete these three requirements:
1.Explain to your leader or adult
partner the rules of courtesy and safety for bowling.
2.Show how to pick out a ball of
proper weight and with finger holes that fit your hand.
3.Play a complete game with your
family or den.
Sports Pin
Earn the Bowling belt loop, and do
five of the following requirements
1.Give a brief history of the sport
of bowling.
2.Define the following terms:
strike, spare, split, miss, and foul. Show their symbols for
scoring.
3.Demonstrate proper stance,
delivery, balance, and follow-through to your leader or adult
partner.
4.Try different types of delivery
and hand positions and see which work best for you.
5.Score a complete game using a
score sheet and the proper symbols.
6.Play at least four games and chart
your progress. Figure out your average score.
7.Compete in a Scout, family,
school, or community bowling tournament.
8.Take bowling lessons.
9.Attend a parent, high school,
college, or professional bowling competition.
10.Visit a bowling alley and learn
about the care and maintenance of the bowling lanes, pins, and
racks.
FISHING
Belt Loop
Complete these three requirements:
1.Review your local fishing
regulations with your leader or adult partner. Explain why they
are
important, and commit to
following them.
2.Demonstrate how to properly bait a
hook.
3.Try to catch a fish.
Sports Pin
Earn the Fishing belt loop, and
complete five of the following requirements:
1.Compete in a pack or community
fishing tournament.
2.Demonstrate how to clean a fish.
3.Prepare a report on three
different kinds of fish. Include information on preferred
habitats, feeding
habits, and recommended fishing
techniques, baits, and equipment needed to catch it.
4.Draw a picture of three different
types of fishing reels. Explain how each works.
5.Tie three fishing flies. Use at
least one to fish.
6.Demonstrate proficiency in casting
at a target 30 feet away.
7.Select a species of fish and draw
a picture of it, correctly labeling each part and its function.
8.Replace the line in a fishing
reel.
9.Make a simple pole and line
fishing rig. Use it to catch a fish.
10.Catch a fish using artificial bait
or lures.
11.Practice fishing on five
occasions, complying with local fishing regulations and the
Outdoor Code.
FLAG FOOTBALL
Belt Loop
Complete these
three requirements:
- Explain or discuss the simple rules of
flag football with your den.
- Practice running, passing, and
catching skills for at least 30 minutes.
- Play a game of flag football.
Sports Pin
Earn the Flag
Football belt loop, and complete five of the following
requirements:
- Layout and properly mark a flag
football field at a park or playground.
- Explain the difference between defense
and offense in a flag football game.
- Describe five different positions a
player may play in flag football. Name the position that you
prefer to play.
- During three half-hour sessions,
practice the skills of passing, hand-offs, rushing, and
running.
- Participate in a flag-football clinic.
- Consider all the people who make it
possible to play a game of flag football. List parents,
coaches, team members, scorekeepers, referees,
groundskeepers, etc,
- Play in five flag football games
without incurring a penalty.
- Explain and demonstrate at least six
football officiating signals.
- Attend a high school, college, or
community league football game.
- Read a book about a football player
and tell your den or family about the player's training and
work ethics.
- Talk with a referee or official of a
high school, college, or community football league and learn
about the job he or she does at a football game.
GOLF
Belt Loop
Complete these three requirements:
1.Explain the rules of golf
to your leader or adult partner. Explain the need for caution
concerning golf clubs and golf balls.
2.Spend at least 30 minutes
practicing golfing skills.
3.Participate in a round of golf
(nine holes).
Sports Pin
Earn the Golf belt loop, and complete
five of the following requirements:
1.Explain the use of woods and
irons. Explain their differences.
2.Explain how par is determined for
a hole.
3.Demonstrate the proper grip of the
club to your leader, adult partner, or instructor.
4.Spend 30 minutes practicing the
swing styles: full swing, approach swing, and putting swing.
5.Spend 30 minutes practicing aim,
stance, and the address position.
6.Draw a diagram of a typical golf
hole, from tee to green.
7.Demonstrate your knowledge of the
use and care of golf equipment: clubs, ball, tee, bag, shoes,
and gloves.
8.Describe the composition of a
regulation golf ball.
9.Take golf lessons.
10.Spend 30 minutes hitting balls on
a driving range.
11.Play miniature golf.
GYMNASTICS
Belt Loop
Complete these three requirements:
1.Explain the six events of men's gymnastics: floor
exercise, pommel horse, still rings, vaulting / side
horse, parallel bars, and horizontal bar.
2.Participate in three of the six events using the proper
equipment.
3.Explain the safety rules you should follow to learn gymnastics
Sports Pin
Earn the Gymnastics belt loop, and
complete five of the following requirements:
1.Write a report on the history of
gymnastics.
2.Take gymnastics lessons.
3.Attend a gymnastics meet.
4.Practice and demonstrate five
floor exercise skills.
5.Practice and demonstrate two
skills used on the pommel horse.
6.Demonstrate two skills on the
still rings.
7.Demonstrate two skills using
parallel bars.
8.Demonstrate two skills using the
horizontal gymnastics.bar.
9.Demonstrate a vault using the side
horse.
10.Develop a regular routine of
physical and mental conditioning.
11.Learn about three U.S. gymnasts
who have won medals in the Olympics.
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. Chart your time.
Sports 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 occasions, spend at least 30
minutes practicing warm-up exercises before 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?
The Ice Skating belt loop and pin are for
speed and figure skating on ice. See Roller Skating for
information on roller blading and in-line skating requirements.
See Hockey for information on hockey requirements.
MARBLES
Belt Loop
Complete these three requirements:
1.Explain the rules of Ringer or
another marble game to your leader or adult partner
2.Spend at least 30 minutes
practicing skills to play the game of Ringer or another marble
game.
3.Participate in a game of marbles
Sports Pin
Earn the Marbles belt loop, and
complete five of the following requirements:
1.Compete in a den, pack, or
community marbles tournament
2.Explain to an adult what lagging
is.
3.Demonstrate how to do it.
4.Demonstrate the following shooting
techniques: knuckling down, bowling, and lofting (also called
plunking).
5.Explain the correct way of scoring
for a game game. of marbles.
6.Play five complete matches of
marbles using standard rules.
7.Start a collection of marbles and
show it at a den or pack meeting.
8.Write a short report on the
history of marbles and share it with your den or family.
9.Explain the rules about shooters.
PHYSICAL FITNESS
Belt Loop
Complete these three requirements:
1.Give a short report to your den or
family on the dangers of drugs and alcohol.
2.Practice finding your
pulse and counting your heartbeats per minute. Determine your
target heart rate.
3.Practice five physical
fitness skills regularly. Improve performance in each skill over
a month. Skills could include pull-ups, curl-ups, the
standing long jump, the 50-yard dash, and the softball throw.
Sports Pin
Earn the Physical Fitness belt loop,
and complete five of the following requirements:
1.Make a diagram of the Food Guide
Pyramid. List foods you ate in a week and show where they fit
in the pyramid.
2.Choose a form of exercise, bring
your heart rate up to target, and keep it there for 15 minutes.
Don't forget to warm up and cool
down.
3.Set up a four-step exercise
program. Chart your progress for five days a week for two weeks.
4.Explain the reason for warming up
and cooling down before and after each exercise session.
5.Visit a local gym and talk to a
trainer about exercises and programs for young people.
6.Participate in some aerobic
exercises at least three times a week for four weeks.
7.Build an obstacle course that
could include some exercises with jumping, crawling, and
hurdles.
Time yourself three times to see
whether you can improve your time.
8.Swim for a total of an hour,
charting your time as you go.
9.Participate for at least three
months in an organized team sport or organized athletic
activity.
SKATING
Belt Loop
Complete these three requirements:
1.
Explain ways
to protect yourself while roller skating or inline skating, and
the need for proper safety equipment.
2.
Spend at
least 30 minutes practicing the skills of roller skating or
inline skating.
- Go skating with a family member or den
for at least three hours. Chart your time.
Sports Pin
Earn the Roller Skating belt loop, and
complete five of the following requirements:
- Participate in a pack or community
skating event.
- Demonstrate how to disassemble and
reassemble skates.
- Explain the proper clothing for roller
or inline skating.
- Spend at least 30 minutes, on two
occasions, practicing warm up exercises before skating.
- Play a game of roller hockey,
- Learn two new roller skating skills:
Forward Scissors, Forward Stroking, Crossover, or Squat
Skate.
- Participate in a roller or inline
skating skill development clinic.
- Demonstrate how to stop quickly and
safely.
- Demonstrate how to skate backwards.
Skate backwards for five feet.
- Play a game on roller skates, roller
blades, or inline skates.
SNOW SKI AND BOARD SPORTS *
Belt Loop
Complete these three requirements:
- Explain the conditioning, clothing,
equipment, and planning needed for a ski activity.
- Be able to explain safety and courtesy
codes for a downhill or cross-country ski trip.
- Go skiing. Demonstrate how to stop and
turn.
Sports Pin
Earn the Skiing belt loop, and
complete five of the following requirements:
- Explain the different categories 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, side slipping, 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.
SOCCER
Belt Loop
Complete these three
requirements:
1.Explain the rules of
soccer to your leader or adult partner.
2.Spend at least 30 minutes
practicing soccer skills.
3.Play a game of soccer.
Sports Pin
Earn the Soccer belt loop, and
complete five of the following requirements:
1.Participate in a pack,
school, or community soccer tournament.
2.Demonstrate the skills of
passing, collecting, shooting, heading,
dribbling, and tackling.
3.Demonstrate skill in goal
keeping.
4.Accurately lay out a
soccer field for a game.
5.Demonstrate five types of
fouls and explain why players should avoid
them.
6.Demonstrate how to juggle
the soccer ball and keep it from touching
the ground for 30
seconds.
7.Play at least two games
of Soccer Tennis.
8.Spend at least a total of
six hours playing soccer. Keep track of your
time on a chart.
9.Join a soccer team in
your community or school.
10.Attend a high school,
college, or professional soccer game.
11.Learn about a U.S.
Olympic soccer team and report your information to
your den.
12.Explain the history of
soccer.
SOFTBALL
Belt Loop
Complete these three requirements:
1.Explain the rules of softball to
your leader or adult partner.
2.Spend at least 30 minutes
practicing softball skills.
3.Participate in a softball game.
Sports Pin
Earn the Softball belt loop, and
complete five of the following requirements:
1.Compete in a pack or community
softball tournament.
2.Demonstrate skill in the following
throwing techniques: overhand, sidearm, underhand, softball
game. and the relay throw.
3.Demonstrate skill in the following
catching techniques: fielding a ground ball, fielding a pop-up,
catching a line drive.
4.Demonstrate correct pitching
techniques and practice for three half-hour sessions.
5.Demonstrate correct hitting
techniques, including bunting. Practice for three half-hour
sessions.
6.Explain the rules of base running
and demonstrate skill in the following sliding techniques: the
straight-in slide, the hook
slide, and the headfirst slide.
7.Learn and demonstrate base
coaching signals.
8.Learn about one defensive position
(shortstop, catcher, etc.) and practice at that position for
three
half-hour sessions.
9.Attend a high school, college, or
community softball game.
SWIMMING **
Belt Loop
Complete these three requirements:
- Explain the rules of Safe Swim
Defense. Emphasize the buddy system.
- Play a recreational game in the water
with your den, pack, or family.
- While holding a kick board, propel
yourself 25 feet using a flutter kick across the shallow end
of the swimming area.
Sports Pin
Earn the Swimming belt loop, and
complete five 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 the
water, exhale, and turn your head to the side to take a breath.
Repeat.
2.
Learn two of the following strokes: crawl, backstroke,
elementary backstroke, sidestroke, or breaststroke.
3.
Learn two of the following floating skills: jellyfish
float, turtle float, canoe (prone) float.
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 or community pool.
10.
Tread water for 30 seconds.
11.
Learn about a U.S. swimmer who has earned a medal in the
Olympics.
12.
Demonstrate the proper use of a mask and snorkel in a
swimming area where your feet can touch the bottom.
TABLE TENNIS
Belt Loop
Complete these three requirements:
1.Explain the rules of table tennis
to your leader or adult partner.
2.Spend at least 30 minutes
practicing table tennis skills.
3.Participate in a table tennis
game.
Sports Pin
Earn the Table Tennis belt loop, and
complete five of the following requirements:
1.Compete in a pack or community
table tennis tournament.
2.Demonstrate your knowledge, use,
and care of the equipment needed to play table tennis (racket
or paddle, table and net, ball,
tennis or basketball shoes, and comfortable clothing).
3.Practice 30 minutes developing
serving skills.
4.Practice 30 minutes developing
your forehand and backhand strokes.
5.Explain to your leader or adult
partner how spin affects the bounce of the ball.
6.Accurately set up a table tennis
table and net according to USA Table Tennis rules.
7. Play five games of table tennis.
8.Participate in a table tennis
skills development clinic.
9.Explain to your leader or adult
partner how to score a table tennis game.
10.Participate in a game of doubles
table tennis (four people playing in one game, two people per
side).
TENNIS
Belt Loop
Complete these three requirements:
1.Explain the rules of tennis to
your leader or adult partner.
2.Spend at least 30 minutes
practicing tennis skills.
3.Participate in a tennis game.
Sports Pin
Earn the Tennis belt loop, and
complete five of the following requirements:
1.Compete in a pack or community
tennis tournament.
2.Demonstrate your knowledge of the
use and care of the equipment needed to play tennis (rackets,
balls, shoes, clothing, and
court).
3.Practice for 30 minutes developing
forehand techniques through forehand bump-ups with a bounce,
partner bump-ups with a target,
forehand alley rally, forehand alley rally over a "net,"
drop-hit
forehand bumps, drop-hit catch in
pairs, and toss-hit catch in pairs.
4.Practice developing serving skills
for 30 minutes.
5.Explain to your leader or adult
partner how to score in tennis.
6.Accurately draw, label, and
explain a tennis court layout.
7.Play five games of tennis using
U.S. Tennis Association rules.
8.Participate in a tennis skills
development clinic.
9.Attend a high school, college, or
professional tennis meet.
10.Present to your den or family a
report on the history of tennis.
ULTIMATE
Belt Loop
Complete these three requirements:
1.Explain the rules of ultimate to
your leader or adult partner.
2.Spend at least 30 minutes
practicing ultimate skills.
3.Participate in an ultimate game.
Sports Pin
Earn the Ultimate belt loop, and
complete five of the following requirements:
1.Compete in a pack or community
ultimate tournament.
2.Demonstrate effective pivoting
while throwing. Use the following throwing styles: backhand
pass,
sidearm pass, and upside-down
pass.
3.Demonstrate skill in the following
catching techniques:one-handed, clapping, and sandwich.
4.Spend a total of 90 minutes in
practice developing individual defensive skills for the
positions of
marker and defender. Keep track
of your time on a chart.
5.Explain the flight dynamics of the
ultimate disk. Draw a diagram if needed.
6.Accurately lay out an ultimate
playing field, including end zones.
7.Play five games of ultimate.
8.Participate in an ultimate skills
development clinic.
9.Explain the history of ultimate
and how it became a sport.
VOLLEYBALL
Belt Loop
Complete these three requirements:
1.Explain the rules of volleyball to
your leader or adult partner.
2.Spend at least 30 minutes
practicing skills to play the sport of volleyball.
3.Participate in a volleyball game.
Sports Pin
Earn the Volleyball belt loop, and
complete five of the following requirements:
1.Compete in a pack, school, or
community volleyball tournament.
2.Demonstrate skill in two
volleyball passing techniques: forearm pass and overhead pass
(setting).
3.Demonstrate skill in two
volleyball serving techniques: underhand and overhand.
4.Spend at least 90 minutes in
practice to develop individual skills for volleyball. Make a
chart to
record your practice efforts.
5.Explain how volleyball matches are
scored, including the terms side-out and rally scoring.
6.Accurately lay out a volleyball
court.
7.Play five games of volleyball.
8.Officiate at least three games of
volleyball.
9.Explain the importance of good
sportsmanship.
10.Attend a high school, college, or
professional volleyball game.
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