{"id":667,"date":"2005-11-26T06:43:34","date_gmt":"2005-11-26T10:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/11\/26\/grandmaster-of-the-iron-crotch\/"},"modified":"2005-11-26T06:43:34","modified_gmt":"2005-11-26T10:43:34","slug":"grandmaster-of-the-iron-crotch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/11\/26\/grandmaster-of-the-iron-crotch\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandmaster of the Iron Crotch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a7471'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"286\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/penomitre.gif\" width=\"206\" height=\"250\" align=\"left\">      A<br \/>\n      50-year-old Californian man pulled a truck with his penis for a British<br \/>\n        film crew.<\/p>\n<p>      Martial arts grandmaster Tu Jin-Sheng attached himself to the truck and<br \/>\n        pulled it several yards across a car park in Fremont.<\/p>\n<p>      The Tri-Valley Herald reports that he first tied a strip of blue fabric<br \/>\n        around his penis and testicles and tugged to make sure it was on tight.<\/p>\n<p>      An assistant then kicked him hard between the legs before he lashed himself<br \/>\n        to the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>      About 20 people, most of whom study Qigong, the ancient Chinese art of<br \/>\n        movement and breathing to increase energy, gathered for the truck pull.<\/p>\n<p>      Jin-Sheng, originally from Taiwan, is the grandmaster of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/09\/29#a7132\">Iron<br \/>\n        Crotch<\/a>,<br \/>\n        a branch of Qigong said to have 60,000 followers worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>      Its practitioners are known to lift hundreds of pounds with their genitals<br \/>\n        to increase energy and sexual performance.<\/p>\n<p>      A film crew from London were on hand to shoot the truck-pulling feat<br \/>\n        for a three-part series called Penis Envy, due to be broadcast next year<br \/>\n        on Channel 4.<\/p>\n<p>Its the kick in the crotch that makes the trick&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_1624868.html\">Ananova<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">article on Iron Crotch from <a href=\"http:\/\/ezine.kungfumagazine.com\/magazine\/article.php?article=315\">Kung<br \/>\n          fu Magazine<\/a> (including Master Tu Jin-Sheng&#8217;s<br \/>\n        Penis Qigong Tips) \n      <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 50-year-old Californian man pulled a truck with his penis for a British film crew. Martial arts grandmaster Tu Jin-Sheng attached himself to the truck and pulled it several yards across a car park in Fremont. The Tri-Valley Herald reports &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/11\/26\/grandmaster-of-the-iron-crotch\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}