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With an Oakland Tribune reporter and 20 people looking on in November in a parking lot in Fremont, Calif., Tu Jin-Sheng, 50, “grandmaster” in one of the Chinese arts of Qigong, pulled a rental truck several yards using only a piece of fabric tied to the base of his genitals. Jin-Sheng is supposedly a leader of the branch of Qigong known as “Iron Crotch,” whose 60,000 adherents worldwide believe that strengthening the genitals increases energy. To warm up for the pull, Jin-Sheng had an assistant kick him hard between the legs. [Oakland Tribune, 11-23-05]
Ok, one note: D studied Qigong for a while, and a close friend of ours is a Qigong instructor. However, I've never heard of the school of Iron Crotch, but then again there are several hundred styles of Qigong to choose from.
氣功
update:
my friend writes that her partner:
...knows of both Senior Crotch and Son of Iron Crotch. There was an article about the son in the last issue of “Kung Fu” magazine... There have been many new forms introduced the last 3 decades. My favorite is XMA the musical form that combines break dancing and Capoeira with Wushu. Progress.
