Hardcore dancing involves tons of energy, massive amounts of flailing, headbanging and pretending you're fighting off 90 people at once so a few roundhouse kicks will be involved. I honestly couldn't focus on much else other than dodging people for my safety and laughing at how hilarious it looks. Especially when lots of people are doing it at once. The crowd ends up leaving a wide area for all the crazies to do their thing. Here is a professionally drawn diagram to show the layout of a metal concert.
This is an accurate representation of how it goes. You have the front row practically hugging the stage and there were about 5 guys headbanging completely in sync. Behind them you get the "circle." It doesn't start out a circle in the beginning. It just sort of evolves that way once people start flailing around. So you end up with a little moon shape where they do there thing and then you have everyone in the back that is hoping not to get hit but still wants to listen lol. You also have the people that do their moshing every once in a while which is funny because I honestly think the moshing is just the people that want to purposely run into the hardcore dancers. I was afraid to attempt the mosh because I was probably the tiniest chick there and I'm sure I'd have been floor material in a matter of seconds...
I did also noticed that in all of the bands we watched....there was always someone standing/jumping on a speaker at all times....all in all...interestinggg times
