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Those skills represent athletic-style training and are used to model characters with training beyond that of a normal person. Flying Leap, for that matter, is a cinematic skill designed for non-realistic martial artists - dodging a strike is something anyone can do, hence Dodge as a derived stat (just like Basic Lift). We've never used *any* of those skills in a game and probably never will. Basic movement in all of those modes is covered by the basic rules. But, maybe this misunderstanding does point to the complexity of the ruleset.
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