Crowdsurfing
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As Crowd Surfing is called an operation on a concert , and in particular rock , punk or metal -Konzerten. A person present at the concert - lying on their back or stomach - is carried by the crowd over the people, a kind of “surfing” over the audience ( English crowd ). It mainly occurs at larger shows and music festivals .
execution
There are different possibilities: Either you let someone throw you up a bit, for example by making a robber ladder and then let yourself be thrown backwards onto the hands of the audience. Another possibility is to hold on to the shoulders of the person in front and "climb" yourself. Arms and legs are stretched out and you lie on the hands of the audience. Now you are passed through the crowd. There is also the option of rolling your own body to influence the direction. Usually this is how you move forward to the stage.
Stage diving
Another possibility is to stage diving (English stage , stage 'and diving , diving), ie, crowd surfing after an artist has jumped from the stage. If he lets himself be caught by the audience, he too can surf the crowd.
At smaller concerts, however, it is also quite common for bands to let spectators onto the stage. So you can jump into the crowd and let yourself drift. However, there is always a risk of injury, especially when there are too few people or too much mossing . On January 24, 2014, a 28-year-old man died as a result of a stage dive that he had committed two days earlier in the Solothurn Kulturfabrik Kofmehl during a hardcore concert.
Was invented probably the Stagediving the lead singer of the Gospel - quintet Five Blind Boys of Mississippi to leap, Archie Brownlee, who was among others known in concerts in the crowd.
Feet first
Under Feet First , the extreme version of the Stage Divings understood. You jump into the crowd with your feet or knees first. This leads to a high risk of injury to the audience through foot hits and may be criminally relevant as bodily harm . In addition, in most cases, even at harder concerts, “feet firsts” are seen as a violation of the “rules of the game”. "Feet-First-Divers" are often approached after such a jump or dragged out of the mosh pit, and the variant can often be observed that when they start the second jump, they jump into the void, because such "spoilsport" immediately in the mosh pit Room is made for a hard landing.
Crowdboarding
A variant of crowdsurfing is crowdboarding, which is occasionally carried out by the musicians themselves. For this purpose, a surfboard (for example at Beatsteaks ), a normal board, the lid of a set case or a rubber dinghy (for example at Rammstein ) is placed on the first rows of the audience, which is then occupied by a musician. He then embarks on a journey over the swaying “waves” of the audience. The musician can sit or stand.
Effects
Most of the time, the surfers are interested in fun and adventure. Crowdsurfing towards the stage is also often used at concerts when a viewer wants to get out of the crowd. He then “surfs” in the direction of the stage, in front of which there is often a barrier (usually a so-called stage ditch ) at concerts and festivals , into which the security staff lifts arriving surfers.
Prohibitions at festivals
Crowdsurfing is prohibited at some music festivals and some concerts, as the crowdsurfers often caused injuries. For example, at the Southside Festival, most of the injuries were caused by aggressive crowdsurfing. In most cases, this resulted in head and neck injuries. For this reason, since 2006, surfers who have noticed have been banned from the festival area for one day.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.solothurnerzeitung.ch/solothurn/stadt-solothurn/unfall-beim-stagediving-28-jaehriger-springt-von-der-buehne-und-stirbt-127611520
- ↑ http://www.blick.ch/news/schweiz/stagediven-gehoert-dazu-wie-kirsch-zum-fondue-id2642171.html
- ^ Metzler Music; Rough guide; World music; Page 797
- ↑ Video on Youtube