by Jada GomezBuzzFeedBuzzFeed Staff Figure skating fans of the '90s had a front row seat to greatness. Some (especially little Black girls) knew there was something special happening with Surya Bonaly's gravity-defying backflips - landed on one leg no less - considering she was the only one at the time who could actually land them in competition. Others were disgusted (in a way I still cannot understand three decades later), because she wasn't "following the rules.