If you do lose something, between songs, people will lift that item into the air, presenting the opportunity for the owner to claim it. The thing I love most about a big messy dance pit is that the people around you are acting feverishly- aggressively even, but they care about each other and they care about you. If you’re feeling the temptation come on and you (like most) can’t afford new credit cards and a new phone, I recommend zipping your wallet, putting your phone in your sock, wrapping your camera around your shoulder, and double knotting your shoe laces. This liability increases when you are horizontal and several feet off of the ground. They have been through some shit and are aware of the liability that they face upon entering - the liability for loss of phones, wallets, glasses, cameras, shoes, etc. If you go to a big music festival, you’ll see people with zip up pockets on their shorts heading into the pit. I’ve done it a lot, but it’s a bit of a boring thing in reality. I theorize that people who kick while crowd surfing have never in fact crowd surfed, and are overcome with the realization that there isn’t much to do once you’re up there. Be generally aware of what your body is doing and where you are going and try to keep fluid, but a bit still. By getting into the pit, you’re sort of consenting to that.ĭon’t fucking kick, man? Why are you doing that? Why is that a good idea? If you’re up above people, don’t kick the people who are supporting you. *An exception to this rule: people who go to hardcore shows where it is customary to stage dive and body slam. For best bet, the point and mouth is the way to go. It is a bit formal, a bit less romantic, but the only people who think that barging onto peoples bodies without their acknowledgement is romantically Rock n Roll are people who have only ever seen mosh pits and crowd surfers on School Of Rock. Getting someone’s attention, and mouthing ‘up?’ as you point at yourself and then to the sky is the cleanest method through which one may take flight. So for the sake of myself and the safety of others, I will share that way with you now. Likewise, there’s always some idiot leaping onto people without permission or warning and that idiot is immediately dropped because why would anyone catch them, let alone carry them? I am a firm believer that there is a way to do everything, and that includes crowd surfing. There’s always some idiot kicking their way across the dancefloor because they aren’t aware enough to care whose face their new Doc’s have gone into. The better strategy? Go up. Crowd surfing is done often, but hardly ever very well. Not worth battling through a bunch of grumpy ‘fans’ with their shoulders crossed. Where do you go? Out? Fuck going out and losing your proximity to the stage. As fun as it may be, when that joy and discomfort become simply too much to bear, it is necessary to seek an escape. It is an uncomfortable, unnatural, joyous place to exist. If you are the kind of person who would be reading about music on Monster Children, it is likely that you’ve spent a lot of time going to concerts, steeping yourself in the thick, hot, violent air of a dance pit at the front of the stage.
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