Too Much of a Good Thing

Want To Improve Your Music Skills? Take Up Boxing!

By Meera Dolasia on 12/10/2011

What does playing musical instruments have to do with boxing? A lot according to James VanDemark, a professor at the Rochester's Eastman School of Music. In fact, he is so convinced that boxing helps make for better musicians, that he is asking his students take up the sport.

The internationally renowned double bass soloist says he took up boxing about two years ago and immediately noticed a big improvement in his bow control