Creatives on the show would forward him scripts, and he would innovate on the staff’s action scenes. Kisu and the team began to work together in an extremely collaborative process. “So Avatar kind of started in my backyard.” Image: Nickelodeon “It was some of the most amazing artwork I had ever seen in my life,” he says. It wasn’t until Konietzko finally showed him some of the drawings he had that Kisu decided this was a project worth working on. Then he turned him down several times afterward. “It’s very catty, it’s very backstabbing.”
According to Kisu, being a stunt player in Hollywood isn’t easy. So how did this lead to Avatar? “, I was teaching in the backyard of my house in LA, and one of the creators, Bryan Konietzko, was one of my students.” Despite Konietzko’s attempts to get Kisu on board with the project, he was done with the entertainment business after working as a stunt player on shows like Power Rangers and BeetleBorgs. “I’ve been his student ever since, even though I have two generations of my own students,” Kisu explains. In his early 20s, however, he encountered his current teacher, Kenneth Hui, and fell in love with Northern Shaolin. He needed to do that.įrom training with family friends to practicing Taekwondo at the marine station in Kāneʻohe Bay in Hawaii, Kisu spent years mastering the martial arts.
“They’d gone off to the military and learned Judo, so they came back and were throwing each other around the apartment.” At around the same time, Bruce Lee secured a role as Kato on The Green Hornet. “I started martial arts when I was seven or eight years old with my crazy uncles,” Kisu tells Polygon. The styles featured in the series were coordinated by Sifu Kisu, a practitioner of fighting styles and the show’s martial arts consultant. But as time passes, and the Nickelodeon series becomes more ubiquitous, few may realize how much work went into its development - particularly in its treatment of the martial arts. Avatar: The Last Airbender is one of the most beloved animated shows of the 21st century.
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