I am not saying that you should not do the manouver, just not come in so close the crowd. From your description, I understood you to fly parallel to the crowd, then turn into wind ie away from the crowd to pull into the hover in front of you. Perhaps I was wrong in this.

However if this is what you did, why need to go behind you? Just pop into the hover 10 feet further away from yourself and the crowd. You may need to juggle things to avoid any conflict with yourself and other pilots or planes, but I'm sure you could handle that.

Hovering/torque rolling is always a crowd pleaser, so if it can be done safely, I dont see any problem with it.

Anyway we are straying off topic here. Sorry my fault.