Crowdsurfing

As Crowd Surfing is called an operation at a concert, and in particular rock, punk or metal concerts. A Present at the concert is - lying on the back or abdomen - taken from the lot of the people, almost a " surfing " on the audience (English crowd, Crowd '). It occurs mainly in larger shows and music festivals.

Execution

There are several possibilities: Either you can throw up a piece of someone, for example by a robber conductor is made ​​and you can then throw backwards onto the hands of the audience. Another possibility is to hold on to the shoulders of the man in front and " climb " to itself. Arms and legs outstretched and one is on the hands of the public. Now it is passed through the crowd. It is also possible to roll his own body to influence the direction. One usually carries himself so on towards the stage.

Stage Diving

Another option is to stage diving (English stage, stage ' and diving, diving '), so crowd surfing after an artist jumped from the stage. Can he be offset by the audience, so he can surf on the crowd.

For smaller concerts but it is also quite common that bands spectators leave the stage. Thus, one can well jump into the crowd and let yourself drift. Risk of injury but still, especially if too few people are there or will gemosht too much. On January 24, 2014, a 28-year old man died as a result of a Stagedives, he had two days earlier committed in the Solothurn culture Kofmehl during a hardcore concert.

Was invented stage diving probably from the lead singer of the gospel quintet Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, Archie Brownlee, who was known among other things, to jump in concerts in the crowd.

Feet First

Under the most extreme version of the Feet First Stage Divings is understood. The display moves with the feet or knees first, into the crowd. This leads to a high risk of injury of the fielding audience by Fußtreffer and may be punishable by law under certain circumstances as physical injury. In addition, " Feet Firsts " in most cases, even on harder concerts, viewed as a violation of the "rules". " Feet -First -Diver " are often approached by such a jump, or dragged out of the mosh pit, often the variation can be observed, that if they start for the second jump, jump, into the void, because in such a mosh pit " party poopers " immediately space for a hard landing is made.

Crowd boarding

A special variant of the crowd surfings is the boarding, which is sometimes performed by the musicians themselves. For this purpose, a surfboard (for example, the Beatsteaks ), a normal board, the lid of a Setcases or dinghy is placed (for example, Rammstein ) on the first rows of the audience, which is then occupied by a musician. This thus embarks on a journey across the rocking "waves" of the audience. The musician can squat or doing, is to be observed as to the " Angel Warriors " DVD of the band Subway to Sally, even stop.

Effects

Mostly it is the surfers to have fun and experience. The crowd surfing to the stage, however, is also commonly used at concerts, when a viewer wants to get out of the crowd. He " surfs " then towards the stage, in front of which at concerts and festivals often a barrier (usually a so-called photo pit ) is, in the security personnel lifts the incoming surfers.

Prohibitions on festivals

On some music festivals and some concerts, the crowd surfing is banned because of the crowd surfers often injuries were caused. So most of the injuries were caused by aggressive crowd surfing as the Southside Festival. This led in most cases to head and neck injuries. Therefore be incurred surfers are excluded for a day from the site since 2006.