a lot of instructors actually put the skater's body into the correct position so the skater can feel it.
Which has been helpful to me too. Perhaps that is part of "kinesthetic" learning.
It's perhaps one of the reasons why USFS has never fully adopted SafeSport criteria (which say coaches must
never touch students).
In ice dance, you and your partner are constantly giving each other direct physical feedback and guidance, when you are in contact. To some extent your partner IS your coach. And sometimes your coach does dance with you. I assume Pairs is simlar
As Riley876 and Bill_S alluded to, studies have shown that most elite athletes, when they see something demoed, actually activate many of the same muscles, and do feel as though they are going through the same motions. For such people, visual learning is also kinesthetic. I feel a little bit of the motion when I watch.
I never had a coach who videoed me while I tried, and showed me the results, but I believe that would be helpful too.
In many ways I learn best from well written descriptions, with videos, but well written descriptions are for the most sadly lacking in figure skating.
The truth is, I need ALL possible learning techniques and methods of instruction to get much of anywhere. That makes me hard to teach, because some coaches are only good at some forms of teaching.
I think that the most successful athletes have to be good at ALL forms of learning. And that the most successful coaches have to be good at ALL forms of teaching.
To teach kids, even at a volunteer level, I certainly had to learn other modes of teaching than the ones I was best at using to learn. In part because most little kids, and some older kids, learn primarally through "monkey see, monkey do".
Have you ever watched or taken part in a peformance dance class? I don't mean for beginners. I mean REAL classes for REAL dancers, who are professionals or close to it. (I'm not a REAL dancer, any more than I am a REAL skater, but I've tried classes, for fun.) They are mostly taught through "monkey see, monkey do". But teachers sometimes make a point of describing the motion in words, and letting the dancers get practice figuring that out, because they will sometimes have to do it professionally, or for an audition. Occaisionally a teacher will give verbal feedback or physical guidance to individual students. They are even sometimes required (I've never done it) to learn routines purely from abstract written notations (e.g., Laban notation), in much the same way musician sometimes has to to learn a piece from music notation alone. They are also given practice teaching each other their own compositions, using a wide variety of techniques.
Clearly they agree that good students and good teachers need to be good at all forms of learning and teaching.