Lezly, age 72, has been a professional dancer all his life, and thinks dance skating is even better than the un-wheeled kind.

I started dance skating when I was 46. I went with my ex-wife and my girlfriend (they were very good friends), just to watch them skate. I saw them dancing and skating and spinning, and I said, "What?? Oh my God!", 'cause we never had that in skating, back when I was a kid. It blew me away. And I said, "Hey, if I bring my dance thing to this, I could do some interesting things!"

I was a dancer, since I was 14 years old. I did jazz, ballet, Afro-Cuban dance, I was the first white guy to dance with Jeffrey Holder's company, I danced with Gene Kelly. As a dancer, I'm a spinner, see, I can do 5 pirouettes on my feet. And when I saw people, that at 5 spins, they were just getting into their spin, I said, "Whoa, I gotta do this!"

So, the next day I bought a pair of skates, and I worked every day, 7 days a week, 7, 8 hours a day, till 1 o'clock in the morning, and I was teaching it in a month and a half.

To me, dancing and skating are the same thing, 'cause I combine them. I get the same thrill, the same joy, the same rush that I get from dancing, when I skate. And sometimes even more so, because there's that added element of speed. It takes my heart and closes out everything else. You forget that there are people watching or that there are other people skating and you click into a zone. And when I'm in that zone, I can't fall, I can't miss a step, there's no way I could blow anything. Everything is on. 'Course, until I get into that zone, it's pretty shaky! I have to warm up slowly, but once I come to a boil...!