Top Document: alt.punk.straight-edge sXe FAQ Previous Document: 2-6. What is floorpunching? Next Document: 3. About the commitment See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge On 18 Oct 1997 XMARTINX <hexen@gmx!net> wrote" "a guide to violent dancing "stagediving, pile-ups, windmills, walls of death, slamdancing, its an excellent way to release pent-up frustrations or to shed thos extra pounds. This is the spirit of the youth, this is what hardcore is all about. The pit found its roots in punks slam and pogo (some say it was invented late 70s on shows from the Germs, The weirdos, Black Flag ...) and progressed in trash- and death metal gigs. Since the walls between punk and metal have come down, the audience has changed lately, the size of the pit is growing. Early hc-gigs saw the craziness of a few violators but the latest shows were slamfest were over 50 kids really knocked their way through the audience. What makes me so proud about this scene is that it never comes to fights. In other places, when a pit starts, it often comes to fistfights and those who participate in the action want to dance the hardest. Lack of respect and comprehension is mostly the reason for this. Anyway, heres some names and explanation for pit-tricks, the editor is not responcible for any injuries at all ... ;-) "Some stagediving techniques: "arrow: hands behind the back, take a leap on stage and shoot yourself into the front rows. "Flip: flip your body headfirst and land on the crowd, you can flip over and over again while laying on the crowd too. "Feet-first: make sure you dont wear combat-boots for this. Run off the stage and jump as high as possible, then stretch both feet before you land with your gravity centered in your bottom. "Wuss-dive: get on stage and make gestures with your arms that people should move up front to catch you, then with lots of efforts, lay down safely, like you would drop dead. "Floor kiss (or pope -dive): take a huge leap and jump as high as you can, pointing your lips in a romantic way and land on your face. "Golden Rules: - Dont wear too many clothes. Just make sure your piercings, fresh tattoos, genitals and brest are well protected. Of course its great if you can rip some yuppies Nirvana T-Shirt to tiny pieces. - Only dance when theres a good mood. Dont make a complete idiot of yourself going off on emo or melodic gigs. Use the H-force for H-bands. - Dont take food/drinks with you. You dont wanna end up with fries in your ears smelling of Dr.Pepper after a good gig, do you ? - Dont fart in the pit !! - Dont kiss your partner up front (especially when you dont want the others tongue-piercing to be yours) "DANCING TRICKS "GORILLA (PICKING UP STYLE) Legs spread and hands grabbing the floor on the rythms of the beat (NY-Style is excellent to do this, Solid the perfect band) "BREADSLICER Crouch your arms and slam them open as wide and hard as possible, great on fast parts, even better in combination of shoving your feet in all directions. "WINDMILL (single or double) Rotate your arms 360 degrees forward or backward, make sure your fingers are locked safely in a fist, for the sake of yourself and buddie-slammers. "DOUBLE TROUBLE One dancer rides the others back or neck against onslaughts of attack by human battering rams. Invented by the skins but lately done by our BXL-friends. "SUCK-CORE SWEEPER Stand back to back with a fella and grab his arms from behind. Lift him up and whirl like a madman into the front rows. This move is complete if you release the human projectile to knock down some victims. "WALL OF DEATH Arms locked tight in an iron chain, a line of burly dudes mows down any unexspecting pedestrian standing in its path. When doing this, make sure you have the beefiest guys with you. "FRIGOBAZAR HIP-HOP Jump up and down like a moron to ridicolous hiphop-beats. When you see geeks doing this, go for a double windmill or a wall of death to clear them of the floor so they can hide safely in the back drinking Kriek-Beer" On 18 Oct 1997 XJeremyX wrote: "My favorites: "The Menace: If you saw the movie "Don't be a menace to south central while drinking your juice in the hood" (the grandma did it while she was break dancing in church) you should be familiar with this one. You stand on one foot, grab your other ankle and kick your leg forward while still holding it. Fun to do to the slow dance parts. "The helicopter: spread your arms out and swing them around like your a helicopter.Wheeeeeee! "The Sledgehammer: Clasp your hands and Swing them like you've got a sledgehammer. Fun to do to the intro of those fast old school songs just before you point and scream "GO!" "Kick'n'go: Hold your arm out, fully extended, with your hand held in a palm. Swing your arm and strike your palm with your fist. now when you bring your fist back to hit your palm again, kick. repeat. "Seisure: My favorite. Do what you want, but shake like a maniac and run around. Do this when the singer passes you the mike." User Contributions:Top Document: alt.punk.straight-edge sXe FAQ Previous Document: 2-6. What is floorpunching? Next Document: 3. About the commitment Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: xjusticex@geocities.com (Lars Norved)
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