þþThe árotherhood of Gíds and âetardsþþ "Your very own guide to proper mosh pit tecniques" By: ABiGWaR Only the Strong Survive. Mosh Pits: The Battle of the fittest This file is to teach you the basics of moshing, pogoing and moonstomping. I have been in the lammest mosh pits, and learnd that it wasn't the band, it was the people. No one these days know how to mosh. --=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=-- Mosh- (verb) A style of extreamly violent dancing. Almost anything goes in a mosh pit. Moshing can releave people of built up stress and anger. It can hurt, but if it doesn't, Your not at the heart of the pit. Mosh Pit- (Noun) Place during a concert or dance where moshing takes place. Styles of moshing include but are not limmited to: -------------------------------------------------- The Wall of Pain: Occurs when one person is in the heart of the pit and the moshers gather in a circle and all rush into the person who got in the middle. Brusier Style: When people in the mosh pit start a riot. Usualy on the more heavy music, When every beat goes you deck another person. Metal Massacre: When the Brusier Style turns into hitting NON-moshing, Inocent by standers. Classic: All the pit members rush at each other, and strike at the sholder. After two people strike each other, They instantly role a part and charge at some one else. Lame, Posser, Mosh wannabes: Boucing up and down and sometimes taping each other. Looks faggy and fairy when watched from out side. Duel of Death: When two people who hate each other mosh Classic, agianst only each other. TWo people stand far apart and charge at each other. People some times fly across the room. Very violent. Pogo Mosh: The people have no pit, But instead they all run around, Hop up and push down on another person, trying to get them down. MoonStomp Mosh: Usually only done by skinheads. Its all of the above, but when some one goes down, they kick the shit out of them. --=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=-- Pogo- (verb) Usually practiced by skinheads to skinhead bands (Oi). Jumping up and down, Making alot of noise, And sometimes Fighting. Sometimes used in cooperatIon with moshing. MoonStomp Pogo- (noun) A style of pogoing where people Jump and march in place. --=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=-- Moonstomp- (verb) Marching in place. Often kicking the shit out of people. Sometimes used in cooperation with moshing and pogoing. Ussualy practiced souly by skinheads, And some punks. Moonstomp fight preperation: Often when the skins think there is going to be trouble they will slash the front of the rubber on there boots and stick razor blades in the slash holes. --=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=----=:=-- (C)opyright 1993, BGR ABiGWaR! '93 Good mosh pits are better than a vivarin and a half. Only the strong survive.