Survival of a Punk Rock Festival

5. Crowd Surfing

            Crowd surfing is one of the most fun and crazy thing you can do at a festival.  Crowd surfing is when you have a group of people hoist you up, or you jump up on top a crowd of people then they lift you up and move across the crowd with the help of the crowd towards the stage. Then, once you get there, a big sweaty usually bald security guy grabs you and then sets you down and tells you to leave what is called the security pit area. It’s a railed fence area where security guards stand so nobody jumps on stage.

            There are a lot of different reasons why people do this at festivals.  Such as being drunk, going crazy because their favorite song is being played, and many other reasons as well. What is cool about crowd surfing is when someone falls from crowd surfing people are like “oh crowd surfing dude or girl” and they lift that person back up on and off they go. Ninety percent of the time this doesn’t cause of fight.

            Crowd surfing can be also bad. From getting injured or someone grabbing you inappropriately (and I don’t mean butt grabbing, and that happens to everybody crowd surfing). From the festivals that I have been to, personally, I have a girl drop on her head because that security guard didn’t get to her in time to catch her because he was in the process of catching someone else. Also seen a couple guys carried out in wheel chairs by EMS because security wasn’t there and they probably got a concussion when their head hit the floor. So if you do crowd surf, try to go feet first so you can land on your feet when you get to the front of the stage.  Sometimes when you don’t realize it you have the perverted guy at a concert that likes to touch people weird. So ladies try not to wear skirts if your crowd surfing.

            If you have never tried crowd surfing I would suggest it. It’s kind of a rush, especially when you favorite band is playing your favorite song. As long as you’re paying attention to what you’re doing you’ll probably won have to be carried out in a wheel chair. The only bad thing that’s happen to me was I dropped on my arm, but I just shook it off and went crowd surfing again. That’s how fun crowd surfing is. 
          Check out my awesome hilarious videos I made with stick figures and one with fellow festival goer Callie Carrell as well.