15 Tricks to surviving in a crowd if you're short!
Tips for surviving in a crowd if you’re short
If you’re short listen up! Being my grand height of 5”1 i’ve got a few tricks for you to have the best concert experience you can! You can get pretty thrown around and come home with some battle wounds, but knowing some little tricks can help you make it out unscathed!
1. It’s impossible to see through people, so GET THERE EARLY, and get yourself as close to the front as possible.
2. Be ready for “The Wave”! It will come, brace yourself as much as you can, once you lose your footing you’re fair game..
3. When you hear “CROWD SURFER” Duck! When you see security getting ready to pull them down, unless you are way over 5”8 just cover your head, do NOT try and push them forward, everyone else will do that for you. Getting kicked in the head hurts like hell and sometimes results in security hauling you out of the crowd.
4. If security tries to lift you out don’t fight it! They probably just saw you take a kick to the head from a crowd surfer, and know you more then likely have a concussion.
5. If you lose the person you went with, don’t waste time worrying, or trying to find them, you’re too short to see them, you have cell phones you can find them after the show.
6. Don’t apologise every time you bump into someone. Are people apologising to you? besides they can’t hear you anyway.
7. Use your elbows to move through crowds! When you’re short your elbows are perfect rib height for most people! Use them, and make it to the front alot faster.
8. Play the sweet & innocent ‘I’m short and can’t see’ card, it just might work to get tall people to let you infront of them.
9. Look UP! It gets super stuffy and disgustingly sweaty and when you’re getting squished breathing becomes an issue, look up, you’ll get a nice gulp of fresh air.
10. Don’t start talking shit. If you can’t defend yourself, because people will throw punches no matter how small you are.
11. Be prepared to come home with battle wounds! You will get shoved, hit, kicked, and stepped on, expect some sore-ness and bruises the following morning.
12. Don’t take peoples shit because you’re little. They’ll try and throw you around; stand your ground and use your voice we may be little, but we will be heard.
13. Security are friends not enemies, they are there for your safety so don’t piss them off. Yeah they’re in some of your photos but they’re there to help.
14. Hair doesn’t matter! Ladies dont spend forever doing your hair, throw it up in pony tail or messy bun, it’s off your neck and you can redo it easily. If it’s down it will get caught on other peoples hands, especially if they have rings or bracelets.
15. Have a great fucking time.
