Iron Crotch Kung Fu. There, now I have your attention

Matthew Polly, author of American Shaolin, is best described as... Persevering. He left harvard, after taking huge amounts of chineese, to go chase his dream. Namely, to be taught in the martial art of Shaolin. Many people dream of becoming a kung fu master. This guy actually goes for it. And he's met some pretty weird guys in the process. Monk Dong, (not making this up) practicioner of Iron Crotch Kung Fu. Tiger man, a movie director about the size of an orangutang. And Mikael, nordic giant hovering somewhere between genius and madness. These people seem larger than life, but he does have pictures. Talk about truth being a lot stranger than fiction