Rollerskating is dif­fi­cult enough for some with­out adding danc­ing into the mix, but not for Breaksk8.

Breaksk8 is a roller­skat­ing dance team based out of Kokomo, Ind. They per­formed on MTV’s “America’s Best Dance Crew” in 2008 and at the 2008 Teen Choice Awards. Breaksk8 will be per­form­ing at the Williams Auditorium at 7 p.m. on Jan. 12.

According to their web­site, Breaksk8 became an offi­cial enter­tain­ment crew in 2003. They got their start from per­form­ing at high schools and half-time shows at local bas­ket­ball games, and soon were per­form­ing all over the coun­try. They were the win­ners of “The Roll Bounce Skate Off,” which was a nation­wide skate com­pe­ti­tion, and one of their mem­bers was a stunt skater in the movie “Roll Bounce.”

However, even with all of their media expo­sure, many peo­ple are unfa­mil­iar with Breaksk8.

“I have hon­estly never heard of Breaksk8 until now,” Jon Howard, FSU fresh­man in the mechan­i­cal engi­neer­ing pro­gram, said. “I am a lit­tle hes­i­tant about the idea because I haven’t watched any­thing like it before.”

Other stu­dents, like Ferris stu­dent Krystal Karnofsky, heard of the group through their per­for­mance on “America’s Best Dance Crew.”

“I watched them on the show and rooted for them,” Karnofsky said, FSU junior in music indus­try man­age­ment. “I thought they were very good and fun with the rou­tines they did. I think danc­ing on roller skates is really inter­est­ing. It looks hard and I give them props for com­ing up with the idea of mak­ing a dance crew on roller skates.”

Most stu­dents inter­viewed plan on attend­ing the Breaksk8 per­for­mance, or are at least inter­ested in the idea. However, oth­ers like Katie Le Page, FSU fresh­man in busi­ness admin­is­tra­tion, rec­og­nized their tal­ent, but won’t be rear­rang­ing her sched­ule to see their performance.

“I think it’s cool that peo­ple are tal­ented enough to be able to dance on roller skates. It might be inter­est­ing to see how that works,” Le Page said. “I per­son­ally think roller skat­ing is hard enough with­out adding danc­ing to it. I prob­a­bly will not go just because I’m not really into dance or arts and it might be bor­ing for me. There are other things I’d rather see, but I def­i­nitely don’t think it’s lame.”

Their per­for­mance at Williams is free and open to the public.