For those who didn't know, like myself, the University of Tennessee has an unofficial B-boy crew.  What is a B-boy crew, you might ask?

Originally, breakdancers held the name B-boys (or girls) or Break-boys because they focused their dancing on the drum breaks of a record. DJs soon began playing drum breaks exclusively for the dancers.

    The commercialized name of the genre fell to breakdancing, but true artists still go by the title: B-boys.

You can count on five or six of the group to be there every practice to work on mastering the moves of the trade.

Eric Felix, one of the crewmembers, explained to me the four basic elements of breaking:

• Toprock - the arm work and upright dancing that accounts for a great deal of the different breakdancing styles
• floorwork or footwork - the actual dancing performed on the floor
• Freezes - the poses inserted into the dances to accentuate beats
• Power - gymnastic movements that usually involve spinning in the air or on the ground

Power moves are the moves most non-breakers remember best because of the shear athleticism that is required to perform them.

These moves include headspins, backspins, windmills, flares, airflares, jackhammers, crickets, turtles, hand glides and halos, just to name a few.

Felix said that it is important for a routine to contain a good balance of each element.

"If all of your moves are power moves, you'll be called a power head, which is bad," said Felix. "If there is too much power, you're just a gymnast, not a dancer. It's much better to be called a style head."

Currently the regular B-boy crew consists of Nick Wood, Ravi Jayasundera, Eric Felix, David Nguyen, Tony Roberts, and Joe Wang.

The group also attends competitions. Last year the crew went to Bashville, an annual competition in Nashville.