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Floor space per person, litres of sweat per hour, fluid timing and grams of alcohol per drink — the body-and-crowd arithmetic of a standing set.
Crowd-safety guidance designs standing floors for about 4 people per square metre. Scaled up, a 10,000-capacity standing floor at that density needs roughly 2,500 m² of floor space — a quick way to sanity-check whether a sold-out room will run tight before you ever reach the barrier.
Density turns dangerous as it climbs. Above 7 people per square metre, movement stops and crowd compression becomes a real risk: individuals no longer choose their direction, and pressure builds against barriers and pinch points. The check is visual — count heads in a square metre from the edge and compare it with those two numbers.
On narrow screens, swipe or scroll the plate sideways.
The body keeps its own ledger. Sweat rates during hard dancing run 0.5–2.0 litres per hour, so fluid guidance targets 200–800 ml per hour — about 150–250 ml every 15–20 minutes, sipped steadily rather than chugged between bands. Thirst lags behind losses, which is why the schedule matters more than the feeling.
Alcohol works against the plan. One US standard drink contains 14 g of pure alcohol and one UK unit contains 8 g; because alcohol is a diuretic, count drinks against the litres you replace. Two drinks during a set means adding water to the plan, not subtracting thirst.
Put the two ledgers together: stand at or under the 4 people/m² design density, drink 150–250 ml every 15–20 minutes through the set, and log every standard drink as a water debt. For entry and exit technique see the mosh pit basics page; for the decibel budget see the hearing protection guide.
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