Stage diving
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Stage diving is the act of leaping from a concert stage into the crowd below. It is the precursor to crowd surfing.
The first known stage diving was seen at the 1964 Rolling Stones concert in Holland, when audience members started a riot during the concert. Iggy Pop and Peter Gabriel are among the first musicians to have stage dived. Initially seen as confrontational and extreme, stage diving has become common at rock music performances. Many musicians have made stage diving a part of their stage act. It represents an exciting act of audience participation and musicians have found that it can make an ideal climax to a show.
Stage diving has caused serious injuries, as the stage diver can fail to be caught by the audience below and hit the floor with some force, sometimes head first. Stage divers can also injure the people they land on top of, or knock them over to be trampled by the dancing crowd.
Sid Wilson of Slipknot stage dived from two and a half stories high on the Disasterpieces Performance DVD in 2002 in London.
