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u/BunnyMartinez 16d ago
Lmao the were basically begging him NOT to do it.
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u/fuck_you_thats_who 15d ago
The guy at the front was either discouraging him or calling the outcome.
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u/da_boatmane 16d ago
What in the FLYING fuck. Even at a normal height stage who crowd surfs like this. Like he’s trying to dive to the bottom of a pool. Seems he found it.
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u/Clarityman 16d ago
And he dove with zero regard for human life- his or anybody else's.
Lol at the guy afterwards who picks up his hat and tries to hand it to him like, "I'm helping." The hat won't heal his newly acquired nerve damage!
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u/Ritaredditonce 16d ago
More like diving into the shallow end of the gene pool.
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u/SelfSufficientHub 16d ago
Imagine diving into a pool when the water is shaking its head at you and saying no don’t do it
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u/HansDoberman 16d ago
This meme was my favourite part of covid.
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u/mendax2014 16d ago
You liked multiple parts of Covid?
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u/JRockPSU 16d ago
It’s difficult to talk about in wide open public forums because for a lot of people, Covid was the worst time of their lives, so there can be some understandably visceral reactions…
But like for me personally, an introvert who works in IT, we switched to a full 5 days a week telework setup at work. Contactless delivery became a thing. The world slowed down and there wasn’t an expectation to be out and about. Again this is just MY experience. I got very lucky in that nobody I knew got sick or died. Things could’ve been very different, I’m fully aware.
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u/HipToTheWorldsBS 16d ago
If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough.
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u/sl0play 16d ago
I mean, crowd surfing was a huge thing in the 90s, we absolutely crushed it. We just had this thing where people all liked each other and cared about making a dope experience for everyone.
That said, yea, I got dropped on my ass. It was par for the course.
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u/maxximillian 15d ago
This isn't even about liking each other, this is a case of self preservation from the audience, that guy launched himself in to the crowd like a missile
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u/CriticalSpeech 16d ago
This is probably an extremely packed venue, but from the angle that we are provided it looks like there are about 45 people standing there. Why the hell would you dive headfirst into a crowd that small?
I am not a professional rockstar, but from what I have seen of stage diving, it works best when the crush is so packed there is nowhere for the people to run, so they raise their hands and lift you. Additionally, most of the crowd surfing I have seen starts with the performer slowly letting themselves fall down into the front row of people. Not diving headfirst into the fifth row.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk. Hope you all use that information responsibly
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u/Moskies_ 16d ago
Yea if you wanna get caught by the crowd not going fast and making yourself as big as possible will greatly increase your chances of the crowd actually hold you up. Spread them arms and legs and more people can hold you and spread your weight. Dude in video had zero idea about how to properly do this
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u/Svennis79 16d ago
Having staged dived a few times in my youth. Nobody that launched themselves like this EVER got caught.
Even when it is packed, the crowd parts. The close packed bodies may slow the fall, but they still land on the floor, and then get trampled for a bit.
No one is willing to cop that sort of force to the head.
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u/actual_human0907 16d ago
Yeah I’m not catching a flying person like that. You can see people rubbing their head who got hit. Even if people did catch him they’re all getting injured.
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u/Flomo420 16d ago
Whenever I'm at a show and some asshole tries something dumb like this I just grab em by the belt and yank them down as hard as I can to the ground lmao
No surf for you!
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u/SmellsWeirdRightNow 16d ago
some asshole
Ummm, I might have some news for you...
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u/FLOUNDER6228 16d ago
the asshole venn diagram of performer and attendee in this situation is just a circle
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u/dude51791 16d ago
I'm honestly surprised everyone got out of the way with no injury to others via headbutt bravo crowd
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u/dodeca_negative 16d ago
Everything he did was wrong. Yeah you want some speed but that dude was flying, he was face to the ground and head pointing down. If there had actually been people in his way he probably would've injured them with this shit.
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u/BrainTroubles 16d ago
I am not a rockstar but I have witnessed crowd surfing thousands of times. Typically performers don't crowd surf, 99/100 times its people who crowd surf starting from the back of the crowd towards the front where security takes them. As a mosher/front of the crush person, this means tons of people have been dropped on my head and I've had to fight through the concussion they just gave me while also managing to keep them in the air. Performers are, not surprisingly, usually too busy performing to crowd surf but when they do there is ZERO doubt they are going to do it, and yes - it needs to be PACKED. Usually people are clamoring for them to crowd surf. Even then though, sometimes it backfires. I was at a show where the bassist crowd surfed and then partway through the crowd just kinda dropped him and he had to navigate his way back to stage.
To do what this guy did is a level of stupid I've never witnessed. Like, based on that crowd thinness there is no way there were enough people there to even gracefully crowd surf on, let alone take a 20 foot running start at. Like you're firing yourself like a missile, people usually try to avoid being hit by missiles whenever possible.
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u/CoolBr33ze90 16d ago
Indeed, he did it wrong in every possible way, head first, from too high, not enough crowded people densily together, came running and therefore too fast. A Darwin contender!
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u/lj523 16d ago
I have stage dived once in my life and that was because it was a small enough gig that the crowd was packed at the front and when I gestured I was going to do it I could see enough of them to know they'd catch me. I've played plenty of far bigger gigs since then and haven't done it again as I've never been 100% confident in being caught, hahaha.
Definitely one of my favourite gigging memories though. I imagine I played my guitar solo terribly but I felt like a badass.
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u/SquishyTurtles 16d ago
I want to see another angle of this
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u/Lopsided-Letter1353 16d ago
I mean, the crowd told him not to, and he dove anyway. At that point, that’s on him. People didn’t agree to catch you, so don’t jump on them.
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u/DieseLT1S 16d ago
Does anyone know who this “famous” rockstar is ??
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u/redzero77 16d ago
This happened at open air Frauenfeld in 2023. it was a fan during ski mask‘s performance.
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u/DogPile4203 16d ago
Crowd surfing in 2025 is just multiple angles of Scrooge McDuck wanna be's dirt diving
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u/meatywood 16d ago
Nobody wanted to put their phone down. "We can't catch you with one hand, bro! Stop!"
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u/Reesevet786 16d ago
Everyone was clearly saying with their non phone hand..."dont effing do it!!"
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u/ClassicT4 16d ago
When you make the run to steal third and the coach on base is clearly signaling:
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u/Mekroval 16d ago
I audibly gasped when I watched this. WTF was this guy thinking?!
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u/ScribbledIn 15d ago
WWF is what he was thinking
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u/Mekroval 15d ago
WWE today, but I get what you're saying. (Though maybe WWF is also appropriate, since he'll likely be on the endangered list thanks to his stunt, lol.)
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u/unknownyoyo 16d ago
When the fans are literally telling you they are not going to catch you, maybe don’t jump anyway.
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u/Mekroval 16d ago
There are not enough Rocketeer gifs in the world. Thank you for helping to correct that.
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u/esplonky 16d ago
Something that nobody is pointing out:
When you crowd surf, you should make sure that the stage is at least as low as the tops of heads. The ideal conditions for it are where you can simply fall backwards and land on hands. Stages that are somewhat above peoples' heads are fine, but you'll still want it at a height that lets you fall gracefully onto them.
Barriers make it a bit harder, but still, if the stage is at the correct height, your weight will be moving outward rather than downward by the time you get caught by the crowd.
Even if this guy said "Hey, I'm going to crowd surf!" And stayed at the edge, instead of going back and running up, he'd likely end up on the floor still.
I will agree though that going for the dolphin dive was really stupid on his part lol.
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u/hateboresme 16d ago
it would have been cool if he would have shattered into thousands of coins.
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u/Gloomy-Thanks515 16d ago
Wrong crowd - better luck at a metal show not an audience with phones out
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u/babaroga73 16d ago
When you climb a little on social ladder , it completely messes with your perspective.
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u/Mobile-Standard-4234 16d ago
😂😂😂🤣🤣😭☠️ WTF that’s crazy that he really relied on those people to catch him from that damn height he was jumping from smh. Hope he learned his lesson after that crazy mess! I find idiots to laugh at online and I approve this message.
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u/drachenhunter2 16d ago
"You thinking what I'm thinking?" "Aim for the bushes!"
🎶🎵There goes my hero!
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u/Rubbermonk 16d ago
On the list of "things they show in tv/movies that don't actually happen in real life", diving headfirst from a pretty tall stage into an unenthusiastic crowd.
At least it doesn't look like that one rapper who gets mugged by the crowd the second he lands.
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u/SuperAlloyBerserker 16d ago
The way he dived so confidently (until he panicked and realized his mistake at the last second) is so damn funny lol
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u/The-D-Ball 16d ago
The crowd needs to be much thicker…l they need to be shoulder to shoulder not able to barely move.
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u/yorfavoritelilrascal 16d ago
Chick with the braids was trying to warn him.
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u/SeeItSayItKnowIt 16d ago
They all were tbh. Not sure how much they can hear/see from the stage though
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u/Ducallan 16d ago
I’m no expert, but shouldn’t one try to be horizontal at the point of contact with the audience? He was diving like he was going into water.