Information AboutCircle Pit |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT CIRCLE PIT | |
| syllabus-free dance | |
| punk | |
| metalcore | |
| heavy metal | |
| hardcore punk | |
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Circle pits go back to the early days of California Hardcore , in the Huntington Beach scene. Originally the dance of running in a circle was called the Huntington Strut, or H.B. Strut. Essentially it involves simply skipping, running, or powerwalking rapidly around the rim of the moshpit, the original H.B. variant being that the participant flails their arms around, pushes, elbows, or crashes onlookers, or moves their arms in a similar fashion to the dance known as "The Monkey" (also similar to the Bushwhackers, the old school World Wrestling Entertainment tag team). Usually a counterclockwise rotation is observed by dancers inside the circle pit, and moving clockwise would be difficult for all but the most massive people. The size of the pit depends on both the size of the audience and the tempo of the music being played: the greater of either of these, the greater the size of the pit. Generally, circle pits can range from between two and twenty meters in Radius , with the larger ones typically being the most intense. One's likelihood to be harmed in a circle pit has a lot to do with the size of the audience and the genre of punk; typically small audiences at local underground punk shows will have "friendly" pits where dancers help up others that have fallen, smaller men, boys, women, and girls are able to participate equally with the larger males, and a feeling of "community" is generally pervasive. One is more likely to get injured in a big mainstream punk show although most audience members will always try to pull dancers that have fallen over out of the way of serious injury as fast as possible. |
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