How many times have you been kicked, punched or just really hurt by a crowd surfer?

Question

Or any interesting stories about injuries at shows?

As for me…
I have been kicked in the face at least 15 times over the past two years. My worst experience though was at a New Found Glory show last October. I was at the barricade so pretty much all crowd surfers touched by me. About two songs into the set, some lanky little girl came my way and was thrashing violently on top of everyone. I had my hands up in the air to protect her and me, but all of the sudden she kicked me right below my left eye. My head snapped back and hit the kid in back of me. I had such a headache for the rest of the show, but I wouldn’t leave my amazing spot. Later on, I looked at myself in the mirror and my cheek was red and swollen. After a day or so, it turned into a huge bruise and my teachers were asking me if I was being abused. I’m just really happy that I’m not blind.

Answer 1

The worst injury I ever suffered was getting a big handful of hair yanked out by someone who was being let down~they used my hair for balance :/ So I'm lucky.
I had a friend get kicked right in the mouth by a crowd surfer within the first 5 seconds of a Rollins Band show, and his two front teeth broke right in half. Since then, I became the girl that just held jackets, wallets, hats. I didn't want my teeth kicked in.
As a public service announcement to any girls who crowd surf or enjoy a mosh pit every now and then: SPORTS BRA.
Thank you very much.

Answer 2

Hm, I've been punched pretty hard a few times, countless black eyes, tons of bruises, but no big deal... all part of the fun.
I love crowd surfing, haha it's amazing. But as someone else says, you have to no the rules.. head first and on your back, mainly.
I got pretty screwed up in the moshpit at Ozzfest a few years back. I was in the moshpit, it was crazyyy. I got a mild concussion.
Haha I barely remember. I think someone big might have fallen on top of me, and then I got kicked in the head really hard, plus some asswipe in there was wearing rings, which hurt like hell.
It's all good though; that's the fun of moshing.
I love it, and I'm little[5'2, 100lbs], so it's always interesting to see people's reactions when I first get in the pit. But I can handle my own, definitely. When I was 10 my cousin threw me in my first moshpit and I basically had to fight for myself to get the hell out. Ha that was at a Disturbed show too, so it was pretty rough.
I've always been a tough kid though, I can take a hit.. and hit back, for sure:]
I love it, I love everything about a show.
Ha I love my music, I wouldn't be here right now without it...

Answer 3

It depends on the strength and ability of the martial artist. Taekwondo is about skill and stamina, whereas boxing is more about strength and stamina. But to develop the strength you have to have a good understanding of the movement. So all things considered, if the two martial artists were totally different, for example; a 14 year old, 5ft2" and a 30 year old 6ft4", there would clearly be a difference in their stature and physical strength. But that shouldn't matter, for all you know the 14 year old has been training 10 years, 5 times a week and dedicates his/her life to it. Whereas the 30 year old has been in brawls for years but uses his physical strength to impose as a good boxer. All things considered, you can't say whether one would hurt more than the other. Although, as a martial artist (taekwondo) i would lean towards the kick as with a kick you would get the impact of the whole leg and it would push you back, a boxer would hit you and then move to aim somewhere else. Hope i helped x

Answer 4

I used to be the guy getting "floated!" Now, I think I just might be getting too old (or lethargic). One or the other. Anyway, a friend of mine came down and his fingers went flying into someones eye. I'm not sure, because the crowd was moving so fast and we were all immediately thrown in different directions. But for his fingers to be that "wet", their eye would have had to pop. Since we didn't see anyone running for the door, he probably just got them in the mouth. Still, that would have been bad. One don't usually think eye protection at shows.
Other than that, It's been pretty in control. Most people at the shows I go to know the principles of floating.
Never go feet first
Stay on your back
When jumping of stage, point your legs straight up in the air.

I watched a band member the other day try to do a stage dive. He went head first and face down. His knee clocked someone on top of the head because he didn't have the strength to "superman," landed on a girls shoulders and pile-drived her to the cement floor. Ridiculous. If you are scared nobody will catch you, don't jump in the first place.

Answer 5

I've been kicked a number of time by crowd surfers. Then this one time at the Halifax show these guys more moshing then then one of them fell into my legs, which really hurt. Then at the Norma Jean Show i split my lip.

At warped tour my sister and i let some girl fall that was trying to crowd surf. She gave us a dirty look but we were like whatever.

Answer 6

I was at warped tour and I was in almost the very back of the crowd for Paramore at the time because I got there late and this idiot girl behind me didn't understand how to crowd surf and had her friends lift her up and throw her...only she was in the little empty part in the back behind me and she landed right on my head...my neck hurt so bad! But she ended up getting hurt worse than I did because I flipped her over and she right on her head on the ground. I didn't feel bad though because that is what she gets for being so stupid and trying to crowd surf without the crowd.

Answer 7

too many times


my worst was at bayside during warped tour 07'. My brother is a huge fan and saved all of us spots at the barricade like 2 bands earlt. I swear half of warped tour was at that set cus i live right by their hometown. Anyway so some big buff guy comes over me and the guys who catch the crowdsurfers went to grab him and he was wearing big baggy cargo pants and the zipper scraped my skin and his foot left a huge bump on my head which stayed thier for weeks. I also had bruses all over my arm from being pused into the barricade.



but i guess thats what really makes going to shows fun, the whole risk of it

Answer 8

At a Distilles show this not so light girl was crowd surfing and I was just way into the song that they were playing and I guess there just wasn't enough people to hold her up so she fell on my head. Luckily I only got a headache from it but it did hurt.

Answer 9

For me, I was seeing Scary Kids Scaring Kids, I wasn't right up at the front, sort-of to the right. There was a couple rows of people in the front of me. Well this bigger girl was crowd surfing, came up from behind, which I didn't see her and her back just bashed onto my head. So here I was, trying to get my hands up to support her, which she wasn't at all light. Damn my head hurt.

Answer 10

My most memorable injury would have to be at a Lamb of God concert a few years ago. A circle pit started up directly behind me & someone was thrown into me & I bashed my head on the person in front of me before being drug into the pit myself. It's always worth it. Pain fades, wounds heal but glory is forever. The scars you get aren't flaws, they're trophies.