Inline Skating and Roller Skating/Blading/Expert Profile

Expertise

Ask me technical questions about how to skate, where to skate in N.Y.C., what to look for in a skate, where to learn to skate indoors or outdoors in N.Y.C. Where to buy traditional skates (quads). Do not ask things like - give me a list of skates from the best to the least desireable or prices of inline skates.

Past/Present Clients

Head instructor & Director of Lezly Skate School since 1979 where I have taught in excess of 10,000 skaters both traditional & inline skating. I trained most of the cast of "Starlight Express" (Broadway & road companies) & have coached Donald Sutherland & Michael O'Keefe for film roles involving skating.I am the artistic advisor to the New York Express Roller Dance Co. & founder & chairman of the Central Park Dance Skaters Assoc.

What do you like about this subject?

Rollerskating is my means of self expression. It combines my long experience in the fields of dance & sports. It is a healthy, aerobic & muscle toning activity that occupies not only the physical being but the mind & is an activity that can take you out of yourself & the mundane problems of life & bring gratification & surcease. It is the portal to

What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field?

I am always learning something new & keep myself open always to come what may. What I hope to achieve is to create a lasting vehicle for dance skaters - regardless of their ethnicity, religion or financial status - to be able to practice, share & perpetuate their art - free of charge - under blue skies - to the best contemporary music that can be m

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:

I think I've already said it - check out the Central Paark Dance Skaters web site at www.cpdsa.org you'll find much of interest.

Something controversial or provocative about this subject

?The best image of the city?s diversity is not an abstraction. It is alive in Central Park and called the Skate Circle? John Tierney New York Times magazine October 19, 1997 In April of 1995 the existence of the Central Park Skate Circle was threatened by a new mayoral administration?s policy regulating amplified music and crowd control in Central Park the, which resulted in the NY