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Contents 1 Brain Damage 2 The Herman Li style 3 The Brain Damage Question 4 Types of headbanging 5 Subculture deletion

[edit] Brain Damage

It seems rather unfair to con the statement 'When it comes down to it, most people who headbang won't care about the repercussions and do it any way.' onto the brain damage part. This is implying that people who headbang couldn’t care if they are damaged or not, that’s blatantly a opinion and is quite rude to anybody who headbangs.

[edit] The Herman Li style

Is the Herman Li hairflip less straining than any other styles? I think that style is good if your hair is too long like Herman's and you don't want to hurt your neck.

Someone should remove the Herman Li thing... flipping your hair isn't something that's notable.

Why is the herman Li hairflip removed? I think it is a very notable style and used mainly by Herman.

[edit] The Brain Damage Question

i would say that headbanging definitely leads to brain damage, as even mild shocks to the head, such as those occuring whilst jogging, can cause brain damage. so its not my point of view, but a fact.

Steeev 06:01, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Add a respected study with the warning (perhaps as an external link), and then it will be less of a problem to mention as a fact. Dysprosia 06:04, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)

5. Can brain injury occur without direct trauma to the head?

Yes. Whiplash injury or violent shaking of the head can cause brain injury. It is the sudden movement of the brain inside the cranium that causes damage to neurons. Sudden acceleration-deceleration of the head in an automobile collision, even with airbag deployment where the head is protected from striking a solid object, can cause brain injury because the brain slams against the inside of the skull, displacing, tearing, and bruising nerve cells. A roller coaster ride may make you feel dizzy for a few minutes due to inner ear disturbance, but produces nowhere near the physical force of even a 20 or 30 mph automobile crash. Even what seems like a sudden stop at the end of the ride (which, of course, it really isn’t) is nothing compared to hitting a stationary object at just 15 or 20 mph.

source: http://www.brainsource.com/TwentyQ.htm

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Steeev 06:14, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Okay, but can one's head be moving at 15-20 mph when headbanging? Dysprosia 13:56, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Depends on the speed of the music! :) Steeev 18:17, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)

that's about 7 meters per second

I'm taking out the line about "deaths having been reported" through headbanging until someone can provide a quotable reference - a quick look around Google hasn't turned up anything definitive. --Mpk 01:33, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

I guess I'm more interested in finding out about studies that specifically show that Headbanging causes head injuries, and that the whole concept isn't just some urban legend told by parents to children to scare them away from "the wrong crowd" (as rock and rollers typically have the "wrong crowd" attachment loaded on them). --Werty8472 19:51, 05 October 2005 (CST)

I think you'd have to be a hard-touring member of a metal band to even stand a chance from incurring damage from it. Most people don't do it that violently. Makron1n 16:41, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Types of headbanging

The list of "types" of headbanging seems a bit rediculous. I'm all for headbanging, but are those real words people call the various "techniques", or just BS? Perhaps just describing the ways of doing it would be better than proclaiming titles for those techniques.

The "Whiplash" is an actual term. And the "Semi-Circle", even thought that's not so much a name as it is a desciption in itself. ie "Yeah, he was doing some, like, semi-cirle headbangin'."

hah, I can't believe there was an article on this, somebody must of been bored, anyway I added drunken head banging as thats what I tend to do most of the time. 14th March 2006

I find it quite amusing, and it's written in the right style so, meh! Wikipedia can't be entirely humourless. Also: I tend to mainly do semi-circular headbanging, and at all the wrong venues. Heh. Makron1n 16:40, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Subculture deletion

Hey, wanst theyre an article on the headbanger subculture? Was it deleted, why? Ace Fighter 22:15, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

No, see Heavy metal fashion. Doppelganger E 16:29, 16 February 2007 (UTC)