Another lesson from mosh pitting: move around, bounce off people, shove people away. Make a bubble for your to move in.
Even as a 130lbs guy, it's surprisingly easy to make a bubble if you just throw yourself at people back-first, and keep moving around roughly in a circle. Flailing your limbs also helps.
Or at least it worked when I was at a hugely packed Guns'n'Roses concert at a festival a few years ago.
The article talked about a crowd surge that bent a steel guard rail in its force. These instances seem like a different world from any mosh pit i've seen.
Even as a 130lbs guy, it's surprisingly easy to make a bubble if you just throw yourself at people back-first, and keep moving around roughly in a circle. Flailing your limbs also helps.
Or at least it worked when I was at a hugely packed Guns'n'Roses concert at a festival a few years ago.