Reddit Reddit reviews American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in theNew China

We found 4 Reddit comments about American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in theNew China. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.

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4 Reddit comments about American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in theNew China:

u/Mercurylant · 3 pointsr/slatestarcodex

To quote the author of one of my favorite books (maybe not the most relevant to most people's interests here, but I found it immensely entertaining, and it rekindled my old interest in martial arts)

>What does it feel like to hit a man so hard you knock him out? It feels like Christmastime... Male violence is not an aberration, we are hardwired to enjoy it.

Probably, there are guys out there who have basically no inborn interest in violence, just as a matter of natural psychological variation, but I think they're probably far more the exception than the rule.

u/border_rat_2 · 1 pointr/bjj

There are a number of books like that. American Shaolin and Tapped Out by Matthew Polly are both entertaining reads about martial arts training. Iron and Silk by Mark Salzman is another. Zen in the Martial Arts by Joe Hyams.

u/310SK · 1 pointr/martialarts

I read in a book that they retract their testicles into their body, and tuck their penis into their waistband.

The book in question https://www.amazon.com/American-Shaolin-Flying-Buddhist-Odyssey/dp/B001FWXRF2

u/kaldrazidrim · 1 pointr/gifs

Great book, true story of an American kid who went to train at the Shaolin Temple

American Shaolin

https://www.amazon.com/American-Shaolin-Flying-Buddhist-Odyssey/dp/B001FWXRF2/ref=nodl_