Slightly OT: Baseball and Drums
I read an article yesterday about a baseball pitcher, a Mets Knuckleballer to be precise, who is planning to hike Mt. Kilimanjaro this offseason. His employers understandably frown upon this, as the risk of injury may very well render him useless for the upcoming season and thus his employers are out millions.
Article here: http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/stor...nt-kilimanjaro
I remembered another article I read about the silliest sports injuries. On this list was one Joel Zumaya, a pitcher who catastrophically hurt his arm...playing Guitar Hero.
I'm dead serious. Look it up!
I got to thinking... for those of you familiar with baseball, pitching is almost the exact opposite of what we do as drummers. While we hit something and that vibration comes back up our arms, a pitcher's arm is tearing itself apart rather then compressing by firing throws all day. Same thing with quarterbacks.
I do not have a medical background, and thus I was left wondering: would a team ban their pitching staff from drumming? I would imagine it places a lot of strain on their rotator cuffs, and as well as the further damage it would do rattling the ligaments and such throughout the arms and shoulders.
I've long been fascinated by pitchers, as throwing a baseball accurately is something I've struggled with since childhood. I suppose I'd like to think that I'm lucky enough to enjoy something that would be outright denied to this population.
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