Stage Diving and Who Actually Catches You

Sat, 13 May 2017 09:00:00 +0000

A stage dive lasts about a second and a half from launch to landing, and in that second and a half, an enormous amount of trust changes hands between total strangers. Someone climbs onto a monitor wedge, hesitates for exactly as long as the song lets them, and throws themselves backwards into a crowd that has maybe two seconds’ warning. What happens next is either a smooth, almost tender catch-and-pass over a forest of raised arms, or a bad landing that ends the night for everyone nearby. The difference between those two outcomes is never luck. It’s a chain of specific, learnable decisions made by specific people, most of whom the diver will never thank and never meet.

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Stage Diving and Who Actually Catches You