Holy Shit Pit

[Jand3rson]

QFT!!!!! i fucking hate that!
nothing like going against the grain and rubbing up against sweaty homeless punks that smell like piss, beer, cigarettes and body odor! make me want to spray them with a fire hose!

This is what's great about hardcore shows. Most of the kids are straightedge. :D

I just completely fail to understand why you need to beat the shit out of each other to express how you feel.

There is zero justification for why this is a good idea.

There's no beating the shit out of each other, and if someone does get hit, it's not deliberate. Trust me Ted, we don't go there to fight. It's just the style of dance that goes along with the style of music. It's not really something that can be explained, it's just part of the hardcore scene. There's nothing really to understand.

[IRON-E]

fixed

Thats dancing? It looks like a gang of urban, drunk, tweekers, expressing themselves.

[der affe]

this describes a lot of the shows Ive been to. but whats worse about it is that these are punk shows and gutter punks show up. so it always smells like body order alcohol and cigarettes. humid as fuck too.

QFT!!!!! i fucking hate that!
nothing like going against the grain and rubbing up against sweaty homeless punks that smell like piss, beer, cigarettes and body odor! make me want to spray them with a fire hose!

[uofom3]

I just completely fail to understand why you need to beat the shit out of each other to express how you feel.

There is zero justification for why this is a good idea.

[Mot]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJYT2dG_8Tw

thats dancing? I looks like a drunk mma fighter.

[CobraKai]

push pits are gnarly brah

[Farbin Kaiber]

It was like that at the Arch Enemy show at the House of Blues on the Sunset strip this spring.

[-Jelko-]

Well last month i was at Snoop Dogs concert here in zagreb(friend got me free ticket :P ),in first rows there was huge fight,in sec there was big circle in crowd with two guys fightin,and security got them out really fast...

[mikegar]

about 10 years ago (FUCK has it been that long?), I was at a NIN concert - there was waaaay too many people in the "pit". at one point it got so tight, that I was litterally moving 10-15 feet in random directions, but my feet weren't touching the ground. Nobody was really being a jerk (except for this stupid bitch who was complaining about me bumping into her, get out of the pit then!), but I had 3 friends get trampled in that.. they actually stopped the show for a few minutes to let people get back on the feet. unfortunately, people were so drunk/stoned you really couldn't tell if somebody was hurt or just a drunk moron.

It was a great show though - and every NIN concert I've been to since has been a dissapointment. :(

this describes alot of the shows ivebeen to. but whats worse about it is that these are punk shows and gutter punks show up. so it always smells like body order alcohol and cigarettes. humid as fuck too.

[Jand3rson]

Yeah, "mosh" pits at concerts like that, and most "nu-metal" concerts are just giant smash-fests of hundreds of overweight, sweaty shirtless guys all smooshing up against each other, just pushing and trying to punch people. Your average hardcore show pit will have like 10-15 guys in it at one time, and they're usually pretty spread apart.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJYT2dG_8Tw

[nando]

about 10 years ago (FUCK has it been that long?), I was at a NIN concert - there was waaaay too many people in the "pit". at one point it got so tight, that I was litterally moving 10-15 feet in random directions, but my feet weren't touching the ground. Nobody was really being a jerk (except for this stupid bitch who was complaining about me bumping into her, get out of the pit then!), but I had 3 friends get trampled in that.. they actually stopped the show for a few minutes to let people get back on the feet. unfortunately, people were so drunk/stoned you really couldn't tell if somebody was hurt or just a drunk moron.

It was a great show though - and every NIN concert I've been to since has been a dissapointment. :(

[Jand3rson]

I never understood the point of going to a show of a band you like and wanting to get injured or trying to injure others.

I remember being at a Pantera show back in high school and while BioHazard was on stage, the lead singer stopped the show and had security escort out a couple of guys that turned a mosh pit into just literally beating the fuck out of some poor kid. He launched into a 5 minute rant about this kind of stupid behavior at shows and how it was driving up ticket prices because more security was needed, etc etc etc.

There's a big difference between assholes like that, and slam/hardcore dancing at shows. People at hardcore shows KNOW that the guys that are dancing in the center just dancing, and when we do hit each other, and it happens a lot, we don't get pissed at each other. That's just what happens.

[z31maniac]

I never understood the point of going to a show of a band you like and wanting to get injured or trying to injure others.

I remember being at a Pantera show back in high school and while BioHazard was on stage, the lead singer stopped the show and had security escort out a couple of guys that turned a mosh pit into just literally beating the fuck out of some poor kid. He launched into a 5 minute rant about this kind of stupid behavior at shows and how it was driving up ticket prices because more security was needed, etc etc etc.

[eric (^__^)]

what a wonderful public service that band provides!

[Jand3rson]

Yeah. Now that is fucking dumb.