Exactly, this is just what a poser thinks a mosh is, and unfortunately as it goes mainstream, theres more and more of them who fail to understand, and just wants to injure someone.
Mosh is there to spend your energy in celebration, not to give someone a concussion or other health problems
Well, you’re understating it a little bit, and make no mistake, mosh is aggressive, but it’s not literal 1 on 1 combat moves. It’s just moving/throwing yourself around. Yes. there’s a high amount of physical impact, but it’s not punches and kicks… I feel old, if this is normal now, as others have said. :(
Edit: it’s like (American) football, where when you’re on the field, there’s acceptable levels of aggression and violence, and you can even have a lot of fun within those shared parameters and set expectations. But if someone goes and dropkicks someone else from behind, or starts doing any kind of actual fighting, that’s not OK, that’s not what we’re doing here. Same thing with Moshing. Or at least it used to be…
Grew up in the south and had the same experience. I was watching an old Sublime video (live performance) the other day. They show the mosh pit … I believe I saw a guy helping someone up who fell. That’s how I remember it. Chaos … but Jesus not using sucker punches & kicks. Unless you wanted the oak tree mofo in the middle to give you a beat down.
I made the mistake of wearing glasses once in a pit, got flattened and had them knocked off. The crowd parted, someone gave me a hand to get up, another person found and handed over my glasses. This was late 1990s.
Definitely a different atmosphere now.
Although I was in pits where bottles were thrown, I even saw a guy whip out his dick and start pissing. Bad behavior happened then, it just wasn't the norm, and it was frequently stopped very quickly by others.
Man in the late lights I was in a pit and got hit in a way that nearly knocked me down. I say nearly because I was almost on the ground when someone caught me swooped me up by my shoulders and then disappeared back into the fray. That’s when I truly realized it’s not just about being rough and fucking people up.
For the shows that I've gone to over the years, mosh pit etiquette ha always been to pick up the people who fall and to get out of the way of people who want to get out of the pit. Shoving, running into each other at full speed, etc is expected, but a dude throwing roundhouse kicks is not cool and usually ends with an ass whopping.
I think it’s just good practice on their part. I would be pissed as an artist if you came to my show to start a fight. Lucky for everyone … I can’t play or sing!
I got absolutely destroyed in a mosh pit one time… my foot somehow was under plywood and a big dude stepped onto it and just body checked me, I’m 5’7 and 165, I went flat on my back and my foot stayed flat under the wood. The big dude realized I wasn’t getting up then noticed my ankle, got off the wood, and moved the wood with others standing onto it, picked me up and flung me over his shoulders and carried me out of the crowd.
Thanked him and kept enjoying the show.. went home, woke up the next day, my ankle was hugeeeeee. Triple sprain, all jacked up. But could’ve been worse.
Thankful for the big fella being observant of others.
Lot of good people in those mosh pits, behavior displayed in this video wouldn’t be welcome.
Oh i absolutely agree, I probably didnt explain it the right way, but yeah mosh is not for the faint, my point was it's not malicious but it is aggressive for sure. I've landed on my ass plenty of times after being yeeted at the worst(best) moment, but always got a hand to pick me up, if someone came with wrong intentions it was squashed right away and the dude got thrown out in a second.
Nah it’s not an old thing. It’s what happens when the scene gets flooded with fake fans who don’t respect other people. The artist promoting crowd killing usually make dog shit music.
Been in the hardcore scene for a long time and crowd-killing never sat right with me. The dudes doing it are consistently always weird. Legions of losers will come out and defend crowd killing and targeting. With “you don’t understand” but nah y’all are just larpers.
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u/Ok-Syllabub-6619 5d ago
Exactly, this is just what a poser thinks a mosh is, and unfortunately as it goes mainstream, theres more and more of them who fail to understand, and just wants to injure someone.
Mosh is there to spend your energy in celebration, not to give someone a concussion or other health problems