Talk:Crowd surfing

message: shouldn't this article have a picture of someone actually crowd surfing?
Miles 00:11, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Image?

message: Crowd surfing is put in syllabus-free dance. When the hell did crowd surfing become a dance???  BishopTutu 02:11, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Dance?

message: Venues should change their policy on crowd surfing from "anybody who crowd surfs will be evicted" to "crowd surf at your own risk." Scott Gall 09:18, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Be that as it may, why state that here?  This is to discuss the article on crowd surfing--an article meant to state the situation as it is.  It's not a discussion forum on what should be.   140.147.160.78 18:55, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Those in favor say aye

message: Needs changing-Christian Lorenz no longer does it as he has been injured too many times, which is why Oliver Riedel took over.  However I am unsure on any sources which could confirm this.  TheTrojanHought 10:50, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trivia 

message: The article speaks of people being ejected for crowd surfing.  But isn't it possible, and doesn't it happen, that people could be picked up and find themselves crowd surfing without intending to do so?  140.147.160.78 18:53, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It is possible.  How does that effect the content of the article?  Unless you find a signifigant source reporting an altercation of this nature, I don't see any need for an edit. Verdatum 19:12, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unintended surfing? 

message: Is it just me, or does this seem incredibly biased against crowd surfing. It doesn't point out how a lot of people enjoy it, and is part of the experience at a lot of concerts with a pit.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.196.205.96 (talk) 04:42, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Bias

message: Back in 2001-2004, I spent a few hours videotaping female crowd surfers at Atlanta's Music Midtown festival, and then spent a ton of hours editing that together into movies which I sold on the internet on DVD.  In total, I ended up with over 6 hours of purely crowd surfing events.  I sold them on a website with the same name as the movies, but that domain name got stolen when I let it lapse, so that sort of ended that.  I later made a blu-ray of all the movies which can still be had on ebay if you search it out. I didn't really make a lot of money out of it all, but I didn't really do it for the money - I honestly felt that crowd surfing was a passing fad that must die out due to the litigiousness of our society, and that somebody should try to properly document it while it is still happening.  I have posted a lot of the best clips on youtube as well - just look for Crazy Crowd Surfers and you can see some of what I am talking about.
I always had mixed feelings about Crowd Surfing.  I definitely got kicked in the head quite a few times while making the movies - I really hated the buttheads who would go up wearing freaking WORK BOOTS!  But there is a certain beauty and intrigue wrapped up in watching a girl being passed around, and you gotta admire the guts it takes to do it, all the time risking both injury and multiple minor sexual assaults.  And then sometimes they DO get dropped, and as often as not, you see them back up within seconds!  Sometimes girls go up not knowing what to expect, and soon find themselves in an undesirable situation.  I do think that I was ultimately able to capture a variety of unique situations, and enable the viewers of the movies to get a real feel for what crowd surfing is all about, and why it is so damn FUN, despite all the dangers.
I can also confirm that it IS possible to get put up and end up crowd surfing without wanting to.  In my last movie, there is one event where some guys near me caught on to what I was doing and decided I needed to crowd surf myself.  There was one other occasion that I didn't tape where I crowd surfed up to the front just to get the hell out of where I was!  Sometimes videotaping crowd surfers has its own dangers!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sputterwall (talk • contribs) 00:21, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crazy Crowd Surfers movies 

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message: The article states that Springsteen appears in the first documented video of crowd surfing, taken in 1980; however, in the opening scene of the 1976 version of A Star Is Born, before John Howard takes the stage, during a montage of the audience, a quick clip shows a woman crowd surfing. By her facial expression, it appears to be consensual (indicating she wasn't being forcibly removed by means overhead carrying). This may qualify as "documented footage" of crowd surfing; but a semantic debate could be held whether it is the first "documented video". Ivansevil (talk) 01:40, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  First documented video