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FL MORRIS / FMORRIS@STARBULLETIN.COM
Akela Celebrado in his "wrist freeze": holding a pose
while balancing on his wrists. He and other B-boys
were break dancing on the sidewalk along Kalakaua
Avenue in Waikiki a couple of Saturdays ago.

B-boys add hip-hop
groove to street scene

In the language of hip-hop, B-boys are youths living the hip-hop lifestyle, expressing themselves through dance, music and fashion. Several nights a week from different parts of town, a group of Honolulu B-boys gather on Kalakaua Avenue to perform. Their locking, popping and breaking draws throngs of spectators along the sidewalk. Star-Bulletin photographer FL Morris spent a couple of Saturday nights watching the B-boys, who are perpetuating a dance tradition more than 25 years old, much older than the B-boys themselves.

FL MORRIS / FMORRIS@STARBULLETIN.COM
Celebrado is still "on" as tourists walk by.

FL MORRIS / FMORRIS@STARBULLETIN.COM
Honolulu B-boys Denny Balchin, left, Akela Celebrado,
center, and Brandon Inouye show off some of the cash
from their appreciative street audience. Break dancing is
seeing a revival around the world, especially in Europe,
where huge competitions are held.

FL MORRIS / FMORRIS@STARBULLETIN.COM
Taro Akagi, dons a helmet to perform a "head freeze"
at the end of several head spins.

FL MORRIS / FMORRIS@STARBULLETIN.COM
A break dancing B-boy flairs on one hand, wowing spectators.

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