American Shaolin by Matt Polly
Matt Polly returned to Shaolin after a long absence and documented it in this web article . Check it out.
Who is Matt Polly? I did an article about Matt back in our May June 2001 issue titled Shaolin's Hidden Tiger. Matt is a disciple of Yongxin and one of the real pioneers to open Shaolin. In fact, he was the one that took both me and my martial brother Dr. Rich Russell (founder of www.russbo.com) on our very first trip to Shaolin. Imagine what the Shaolin resource landscape for the west would be without us. And we all owe it to Matt.
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Here's the listing for the Late Late Show. You'll see Matt there now, but it'll probably change next week...
Yeah, I was thinking that too...
Matt originally wanted to demonstrate his iron forearm with some breaking - he actually contacted me about where to get good breaking staffs (I said a lumberyard). Then he was talking about having Ferguson hold a bag and Matt would kick it. I don't know how well he kept up with his training, but in his day, Matt had a fearsome sidekick that he could shoot out repeatedly, like a jack hammer. Plus he's quite tall, 6' 3" so that made him rather formidable.
My TV reception for CBS is really bad. I could see he had some Chinese characters on his jacket but I couldn't make them out. Could anyone?