Skater April Allen, uncredited, playing Charlene, Ace (Patrick Swayze)'s skating partner and girlfriend in this film, won the world championship in women's free skating seven years prior to this movie.
Patrick Swayze and April Allen were each other's first rolling skating partners as children in Houston, TX. They didn't seen each other for 11 years before filming started.
This film was the first roller-disco movie of the late 1970s cycle. This film beat the second roller-disco picture to launch in theaters, Roller Boogie (1979), by a couple of months.