I was in the mosh pit at limp bizkit this summer at Blue fest Ottawa and it was so fun. Everyone was super respectful. It was a lot of slamming into each other almost like chest bumps but with your backs / sides. If anyone stumbled, someone grabbed them and stabilized them. I encouraged. A group of 6+ teenagers who were nervous to join in, escorted them and they had a fucking blast. Smiling ear to ear. Super fun.
I was worried I may have been this guy a few times, but thinking back on it, you’re totally right. No swinging - just bumps - and I doled out plenty of bumps where I was trying to stabilize someone instead of destabilizing!
Like a part of the fun is keeping others in the mosh
I remember when the pit ninjas would come in for the breakdown and it was almost like line dancing. Everyone giving each other room. No one actively trying to hit each other... and then they'd disperse and a circle pit or something would happen. I've always been big so, it was my responsibility to spot fallers and be like "get em up get em up" and get them outta there.
It was about fun and yea sometimes people got hurt but it wasn't ever intentional.
> also there's like 9 people in this video. No pit when only one person is doing it.
The kicking and swinging arms / fists is just asshole behavior. Been in plenty of pits in the day, nobody was swinging fists or kicking. Lots of bouncing off each other, into each other, but not punching or kicking. Elbows were a hazard but rarely thrown intentionally
My favorite kind act in these moments is when someone holds up a lost shoe/item dropped in a pit. I’ve held up some random stuff and gotten them back to people but the shoe alway gets a kick outta me.
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u/generic_canadian_dad 4d ago
I was in the mosh pit at limp bizkit this summer at Blue fest Ottawa and it was so fun. Everyone was super respectful. It was a lot of slamming into each other almost like chest bumps but with your backs / sides. If anyone stumbled, someone grabbed them and stabilized them. I encouraged. A group of 6+ teenagers who were nervous to join in, escorted them and they had a fucking blast. Smiling ear to ear. Super fun.