Does drumming give you nice hands in a fight.

**novicedrummer** · Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Posts: 27

Im in no way implying that it makes you fight like chuck lidell or floyd mayweather but am i wrong in assuming that many years of drumming especially metal drumming contributes to developing fast hands in a fight too?

**Hitoshura** · Joined: 17 Mar 2007 Posts: 611 Location: Oakland, CA

There's probably very little, if any, crossover of skills and technique. The most potentially beneficial thing I can think of is that drumming helps you to develop a spatial awareness around your body (by that I mean the ability to put your hands/sticks where you want them). But with drumming, you're developing and refining very specific movements with your arms and legs, which don't necessarily translate to anything outside of drumming. It's kind of like saying that learning to throw a football well, or bowl, or play billiards, or any other physical skill, would help you in a fight.

There's really so much more to personal combat than "fast hands" though, that IMO it's really comparing apples and oranges. And really, fast hands are useless in a fight if you don't know what you're doing with them.
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**novicedrummer** · Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Posts: 27

Yea man. Thanks for clearing that up, I agree with everything you said. Like i said in my first post, I definitely wasnt inplying that it makes you a good fighter. I was moreso curious about handspeed and how it would translate specifically. Its no different to someone who trains to be a boxer but has never actually fought in the ring. You wont know how good you are until you get in that ring, cause lets face it, the heavy bag doesnt hit back.

**vipergtsr7588** · Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 1060 Location: Troy, Michigan

drumming improves wrist speed and strength; where as fist fighting is more upper arm strength and speed. Having strong wrists could help a little but being a good drummer with a lot of speed and endurance will not make you a better fighter.

**BowlZ** · Joined: 14 Sep 2007 Posts: 1472 Location: Aurora, Ohio

no, it doesn't. I've heard boxing does though
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**lanceuppercut** · Joined: 24 Jun 2008 Posts: 342

the only thing you can take from drumming and apply it to a fight is being able to think "hot damn i can nail the drum solo in WGFA" whilst getting pummeled into the ground

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I haven't noticed anything. Ask my brothers, maybe I cause more pain to them now than I used to. One of them is on SH too so you can PM him. fart2112 is his name.

Kind of a weird thread tbh.
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**FreeXBird** · Joined: 24 Mar 2007 Posts: 2485

Depending how you drum, it may help make your arms stronger. For the most part, though, I doubt it will make much of a difference.

**Megabert** · Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 3:24 am Post subject:

If you're drumming right, it shouldn't make a noticeable difference. Drumming should be mostly in the wrists.
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you might be able to slap better

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