To gain this activity badge, Explorer Scouts must fulfil the requirements below:
- Demonstrate the following:
- three good warm up exercises, one each for upper, middle and lower body
- good stance and balance (board with arms folded etc)
- a straight run with a hockey stop
- linked rhythmic, carved turns of varying sizes
- basic turns with the wrong foot forward (boarding backwards)
- complete a slalom run through 12 open gates
- ability to board on rough or bumpy terrain
- a basic jump or trick on the flat
- how to use a resort piste map
- complete a free run down a moderate to hard slope (red) showing balance, control, good choice of line and awareness of other people on the slope
- try another snow sport of your choice.
- three good warm up exercises, one each for upper, middle and lower body
- Demonstrate how to:
- carry your equipment safely
- put on and take off a board correctly
- turn 360° on a flat surface with one and two feet attached
- climbing up the slope, board on toe edge
- fall and get up safely
- Skate on the flat
- get on and off a chair lift correctly
- use a beginners' drag lift (button or T-bar)
- traverse across a slope from left to right and vice versa, showing good body position, stance and use of board edges
- perform falling leaf down a slope, toe and heel edges
- six linked turns, showing control of the turn and speed
- turn into a traverse, showing good body position, stance and use of board edges
- 'no falls' descent of an easy (green) slope, showing balance, control and stopping.
- carry your equipment safely
- Explain to an appropriate adult:
- the different types of board and boot design
- what snow blindness is and how it is avoided
- the importance of using sunscreen
- the physical dangers you are likely to encounter while boarding and how the ski patrol would mark these
- the Fédération Internationale de Ski safety rules.
- the different types of board and boot design
- Discuss:
- the effects of extremes of temperature (frost, nip/frost bite, hypothermia, sunstroke, heat exhaustion and dehydration). How to avoid them and how they should be treated
- the structure of the national governing body for snow sport in your country
- the impact of snow sports on the mountain environment
- your further involvement in your chosen snow sport.
- the effects of extremes of temperature (frost, nip/frost bite, hypothermia, sunstroke, heat exhaustion and dehydration). How to avoid them and how they should be treated