The concept of Power in Figure Skating

I test both MITF and Ice Dancing at the standard requirements, as kids test them. My goal was to get to skate likeas the kids do. I didn't know the name for "it", I just knew that adult skaters looked shy and kids were going for "it". This "it" is called power.

As I said in the previous posts,  I tested Preliminary MITF  first on June 2017, and got a "retry" and I tried again and passed on October 2017. The only reason given for the retry was "lack of power" on 2 elements. There are adult versions of the tests with slightly different elements and requirements. The biggest difference is the power expected. So were the standard test requires "power", the adult test requires "flow".

I've tried very hard to figure out what "power" means. Ballet dancers famously require lots of power to be able to do what they do, but then, they have to look gracious, like it's actually easy. In skating,  while learning the power concept, the instructions are to be aggressive, attack, push, sell it, pretend to be (overly) confident. When preparing to take again MITF test that I didn't pass, I was telling my coach that I literally don't understand the concept.

It just happened that I was just talking with a skating friend and she was saying that the skating culture sometimes develops aggressive personalities. And I've recently been bothered by few episodes of aggressive behavior on ice. And I'm wondering if it's partly because of the words used to ask for power. I'm still trying to figure out what power means, and I don't think is aggressiveness.

They may not be the best words to describe it,  but I think power in skating is controlled speed (holding the extensions and tension in the body and the speed will all increase while one progresses in skills). And I think it comes from 2  different places.  
The first one is technique, that gives the control:
- alignment over edges. Knowing the points of balance going forward (back of your foot arch) and backward (front part of your foot arch). And how to lean to maintain the edges.
- posture and core engagement
- pressures into ice. Not once I heard about pressing into ice ore bend your ankles as a beginner. I heard bend your knees. You actually use the knee as a piston to push into the ice and the ankle to grab and hold that pressure.
- edges: correct lean of the body and speed that maintain the edges
- tension in the whole body helped by holding the extensions and pointing the toes
 -my coach's advice on how to work on things to progress is to approach it from 2 sides and go back and forth between them
1. work on technique at comfortable speed
2. do the same elements with more speed over your comfort level

The second one is speed (exuberant speed - the love for skating) I feel seeing power in skating is like seeing a wild horse running. I definitely don't see them being aggressive.

On the other hand sports are competitions and one needs to be aggressive or assertive to compete, but that's another story. Maybe the teaching to compete should be separated from the teaching of skating technique.