CanSkate Stage Badges
Stage 1 - Balance
Stage 2 - Glide Forward
Stage 3 - Glide Backward
Stage 4 - Edges
Stage 5 - Power
Stage 6 - Speed

 

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CanSkate Stage 1 - Balance
Go Forward
  • balance on two feet with eye focus (posture / body alignment)
  • marching on the spot
  • walking forward (duck walk)
Go Backward
  • walking backward (teeter totter on the spot is the first teaching progression)
Stop
  • falling down and getting up
  • making snow with blade of skate against ice
Turn
  • two-foot quarter turns on one spot
Spin
  • walking around on the spot
Jump
  • two-foot jump on the spot