Edited sentence: "Hands and Feet"."Jungle Walk"."The African Step"."The Badstep"."The Blind Fold Step" (With or without a cane)."The Cotton Club"."The Passage" a."The Sigma "Nut-Cracker"."Time Step"."Up Jumped the Devil".A few of the most popular steps are:.Any Sigma Chapter can lay claim to it in some form or fashion.At around the same time as the "Black Power" Movements and Africa centered movements of the 60's, stepping started to flourish with the incorporation of some traditional African ritual dancing and the incorporation of other elements like cheer leading, tap, gymnastics, etc.Brothers would try to come up with the best steps while they were singing to please the ladies.From this brothers began to create and build.He introduced certain steps from his traditional African culture, which used dance as a celebration of "coming of age".If you got the ladies you got more recruits.Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana.Much like it is today.Nkrumah in his stepping ritual.Others say that stepping replaced the doo woop sounds and cardigan sweaters of the 50's.Over the years Sigmas have been known for numerous unique and identifiable steps.Over the years stepping has become very intricate and demanding incorporating props, high levels of gymnastics and other elements found in team sports.Phi Beta Sigma stepping evolved even more with the contributions of Bro.Please note that some people want to give the credit to the South African Boot Dance, but it would be unfair to ignore everything that stepping was in the beginning and it is now.Stepping began with groups of guys singing acappella, and when groups like the Temptations and the Four Tops were popular in the 50's and 60's brothers started mimicking their steps.Stepping is supposed to be done as a celebration of "crossing", or "going over", or "coming into manhood".The Nut-Cracker is the most common and well known.The cane was FIRST used in stepping by Bro.The coming of age ceremonies, or rites of passage, are when a young man comes into manhood.The original Nut-Cracker originated in the late 70's.This is intimately tied to the pledge process which is itself Masonic & Afro-centric in origin and method.This is why it is called "Stepping" now.This was how stepping evolved