And now that I think about it, the session was a freestyle session, NOT a dance session, so freestyle rules, not dance rules. Some rinks even have rules about Moves on freestyle because , like dance, they're a fixed pattern and skaters in moves don't want to yieildi to others because of their patterns. Freestyle can't operate without yielding.
I know several people have posted about how fixed dance patterns are. So, I'm not a senior ice dancer, I'm not working on my gold dances. But I've seen plenty of ice dancers working on gold dance who work around other skaters during freestyle. Dance patterns are fixed in tests, but in practice you have,to.yield on freestyle. It's A FREESTYLE session, NOT A FREE FOR ALL session.
We're going to see more and more stuff about more and more things being shoved into freestyle: Moves, partnered dance, solo dance, and fewer and fewer hours of freestyle for people to skate in. USFSA spends too much time thinking about 'the sport of figure skating', and really needs to think about how the rinks can accommodate skating as well. Figure skating is a sport, but running the rink is a business. The two have to co-exist for the sport to survive. Sadly, I see more and more rinks that are all hockey, because figure skating is too much trouble.