That's perfectly fine, except something more is happening with figure skating. You see, rotating your body in the air and using your body for locomotion on the

That's perfectly fine, except something more is happening with figure skating. You see, rotating your body in the air and using your body for locomotion on the ice are two very different skills. What's happening now with figure skating is that one skills completely overshadowed another (the one that gives the word "skating" in the name of this sport). Modern skating champions can't do figures anymore (skating figures is what gives the word "figure" to this sport).