I’ll Try Anything Once, Episode 4: Stunt Academy
Kim Kahana of Groveland, Florida is a stuntman legend. At 78 his resume reads like some of Hollywood’s greatest actors. Not surprising because he’s acted as a double for many of the great names like Charles Bronson. In this episode, Touré learns that stunt artistry is not just about thrills and spills but discipline, strength and courage – as well as great acting! Can Toure learn how to pull off the perfect fake fight, while he confronts his serious fear of heights?
Touré’s Real World Tip
If you want to movie fight, just keep in mind, it’s great fun. But when you throw a punch you don’t come anywhere near the person who you’re punching. You might land two or three feet away from them. To make it really work they have to react at the exact moment your punch lands. The timing and quality of their reaction along with the position of the camera makes it look real.
Touré’s Journal Entry
Episode Four – Movie Stunt School near Orlando, Florida
I didn’t want to do this episode. Movie stunt school is the first one I seriously considered asking out of. As late as a week before the shoot I still didn’t want to go. I didn’t want to get set on fire. I didn’t want to fall. I didn’t want to go through a window or be in a car crash or do about anything I knew they would want me to do. But my wife said go. It’ll be fun. Easy for her to say. But I went. And it turned out to be one of the most fun episodes of them all. Movie fighting is a blast and I think reacting to a punch and getting beat down are more fun than punching or beating someone down.
My mentor Kim Kahana is a true tough guy. As a teenager he somehow hitched and schemed his way from Hawaii to New York. He was homeless for a few years, then joined the military. He became an Army Ranger and ended up in Korea, behind enemy lines with his unit, years before the Korean War was declared. His unit was captured by the Korean Army and lined up in front of a firing squad. Kahana watched the finger of the man who was to shoot him. When his finger moved Kahana fell. All the other members of his unit were killed but Kahana played dead as he was dragged and then tossed into a mass grave, with dead members of his unit laying above and below him. He waited as dirt was thrown on top of the grave and the Korean soldiers walked away. Then he climbed out of the grave and somehow made his way back to his army. For that he won the first of his two purple hearts.
His wife Sandra has a pet wild hog that lives on their property in a barn next to her horse. Wild hogs are mean, unpredictable creatures that could and would eat a human being, bones and all. They are not domesticable. Except when Sandra’s involved. One day a wild hog wandered onto the Kahana’s property and Sandra fed it. And it stuck around. She fed it more and more, then started feeding it from her hand. She named it Cookie and now it lives in the barn, bathing when she fills a natural indentation in the ground with water, and eating from a trough she made. I wondered aloud if someday the hog would snap and get hoggish on her and maybe bite off her hand but she said no, Cookie loved her. And somehow, it seemed to.
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