There's never a moment where I feel satisfied with skating.
It's always in you and then when you find it, when you take the states off
you move through like skating.
Totally Free
When I come out here to skate, I come out here to find this other skaters, just incredible.
My body has figured out what it wants to do
and it just has come up with all these routines that I have.
Not been doing this for a long time.
It's kind of a meditation.
I smoke a joint and I spin around fifty times, you know...
The world is wonderful.
My first pair of in-line skates I got at the beach in Venice.
We rented them and skated up and down on the beach
and it was like I was a fish that have been thrown back in the water.
When we got back to the rental place we didn't give the skates back,
we've paid for them and skated away with them.
That was really a pivotal moment of my life.
So, I looked in a magazine, they had OJ Simpson with a pair of these blue and yellow roller skates
and he's like, got his little collar, he is cool.
I'm like: "I want those!"
And I got those with yellow hard wheels and we started skating, every day.
My name is Terrance, grew up in San Francisco with my two brothers.
We only had two skates, so we had to share the skates,
so we started with one skate on one foot.
What inspired me to get back into skating was, actually, a comic book.
It was about whole bunch, whole bunch of kids and high-tech motorized skates.
And I was like: "Dude, that's awesome!"
My nickname here is Morpheus.
I got this coat on my 20th birthday.
Around that time I started, like, losing my hair for some reason,
and I was like looking for these type of glasses.
And then "Dim!" All of a sudden like that: "Hey! What's up, Morpheus?"
I was like: "Oh, what a coincidence! I do look like him."
Just without that suit, but I don't wanna skate in the suit.
My nickname is Zee, Z-e-e.
When I was out her, you know, in the early stages I met a girl, her name was Tiny
and she was from Puerto Rico and she was a good pick pocket, man. I was like: "Wow!"
I used to come up with a lot of electronics and stuff like that, I got this, I got that, I get this...
She would say: "Man! What is it, that you don't ever get?"
And this is it, you know, that's what I gotta call you. I'm gonna call you Zee.
You're getting everything from A to Z.
But she died at age, man.
Bless her heart, man. May her rest in peace, man.
I'm just grateful to be alive and enjoy to do this, and I think I won't never take that for granted.
The same energy that we all experience out here
is just as powerful now as it was when I first came out here in March, 1979.
This group here is then the epidemic of what San Francisco is.
You can come out to the park, you don't have to leave up to any expectations.
You're excepted as long as you're cool.
They're cool.
You'll see a place where you get people of all ages, all colors, all racists and all walks of life
coming together to have one kind of fun.
Nobody cares what you look like, how old you are and what you do for living.
Just come out and have fun.
People come by and they go: "I gotta do that!"
And some of them are thinking:
Oh, only in San Francisco, what a bunch of weirdos.
So what if it looks weird? So what if it's not mainstream popular?
If it's not for you than it's not for you,
but if it is for you, and if other people think it's weird or not cool, than don't listen to them.
Just listen to your heart.
You can have all the drugs, the alcohol, anything you want to get you high,
but no matter what it's gonna run its course and you gonna come down.
When you get high on life without or with dacnce, you go higher than you can ever imagine
and you can stay there as long as you want to stay there.
And when you do wanna come down, there is no side effects.
And you get pay a thing!
It was all totally free!