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Rules of Moshing

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sean:
as you guys know, i love hardcore, and i absolutely love moshing. however, i really only enjoy moshing to super loud fast pissed-off hardcore music. pretty much any other type of music is not for moshing (well okay you can mosh to metal but thats not my thing). and i really only like moshing at tiny diy basement/whatever shows, because everyone usually respects each other and the space (which is, in my mind, the only rule for moshing). but man, at a hardcore show, i usually am standing there itching to mosh or moshing my ass off. also, circle pits are only for certain points of music. like, not all songs are circle pitable.

okay thats enough on moshing

Damnable Fiend:
the only thing that I would feel comfortable moshing to would be stuff like Discordance Axis.  Most metal and punk just feel too tame to me, to start jumping around and smashing into strangers.  I'd rather be standing against the stage and headbanging until my neck hurts.

In fact, most of the metal shows I've been to haven't had much of a mosh pit anyway.  The worst is the kind of crowd where everyone in the entire crowd pushes on the person in front of them, to the point where the air starts to get really stale (ie. every Opeth show I've seen)

jackmort:
I have moshed and there is enjoyment to be had, but I tend to find that being repeatedly punched in the face distracts me from the music

Anyone who is willfully violent in the pit, is a cunt

Ballard:
The last time I saw Anamanaguchi, the venue was so overcrowded that the entire room, wall-to-wall, was the pit, and the moshing consisted of the whole audience losing balance and tumbling into each other in one direction, and then pressure coming from the crushed end tilting the crowd back in the opposite direction. It was so hot I felt like I was melting and I had just chugged a 4Loko.

Fucking excellent time.

As for the rules, I vote "follow them religiously"

Where do you draw the line with non-creepy physical affection towards the opposite sex?

I'm a pretty non-threatening guy so often I'll develop a playful dynamic with a girl in a pit and we'll start shoving each other lightly as a way of flirting. The last time this happened I was pretty drunk and not thinking about hitting on anyone at all until I noticed that one girl kept pushing me more often than anyone else and whenever she would she'd grab on to my hips for just a moment, so I caught her eye and she flashed me a grin. I didn't want to make the wrong assumption and look like a jerk so I ignored it but things got pretty obvious when we started making out on stage five minutes later.

Nodaisho:
Gene, you're the guy that everybody hates at shows. I don't care if you have to have sloppy makeouts with someone, but do it where it doesn't disrupt the show. You're like a less criminal version of that couple that started fucking to wilco at some outdoor show that I forget the name of.

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