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The story behind China's King of Noses
The origin of the swimming in the water, the nose irrigation did not respond
Born in 1980, Liu Xiaodong, really on the road of the stunt artist only seven or eight years. The birth of the king of the nose, but also from a swimming.
In 1996, at the age of 16, Liu Xiaodong set up a band at school with his classmates, and he was the drummer on the drum kit, when he was in junior high school. With his love of music and the impetus of the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, he dropped out of school to "break into the world". Due to the industry recession, coupled with professional ineptitude, after two years of persistence, the band eventually disbanded.
The day the band broke up, they decided to go swimming together. Letting go of their baggage, they laughed and joked in the water, releasing their emotions to their heart's content. After being pressed into the water by his companions, Liu was accidentally dunked in a few noses of water, and he actually had no reaction. In the evening, at the break-up banquet, recalling the experience of nose watering, Liu Xiaodong suddenly thought of "drinking" a cup of water with his nose to cheer up his companions. Liu Xiaodong's performance amazed his friends and won the applause of other guests in the restaurant. Since then, Liu Xiaodong has tried to use his nose to drink milk, beer and balloons, and his nose has slowly been able to play a lot of tricks.
Once in a while, he went to see the performance of the folk performers who run the river, and saw them throat top steel, and thought it was very impressive, so he boldly went backstage and told the leader of the team that he also wanted to join. After seeing him drinking water through his nose, the leader recommended him to another performance team. Thus, Liu Xiaodong began to break into the world without his parents' knowledge.
StuntsEvery part of the body can perform a stunt
In the performance team, when he saw the old performers performing, he would sneak a peek at the sidelines to observe and figure out the stunt technique. "As long as they did it, I must be able to do it too." With this conviction, he often secretly practiced the stunts he learned during the day at night when others were not around. "In this line of work, artists usually don't teach you their watchful skills, or they themselves will be robbed of their jobs." Liu said.
After experiencing countless failures, Liu Xiaodong has learned to pull a car with his hair, nose, ears and teeth, to break steel plates with his head, to split red bricks with his hands, to tear a basin with his hands, to step on an egg, a light bulb and a steel knife with his feet, and to bite a bicycle with his teeth while lifting two buckets of water with both hands.
In Liu's words, "Every part of my body can perform stunts." "In order to do what others can do, I have to be able to do it," Liu Xiaodong has paid a lot for it. His feet have been cut by steel knives, his head has been broken by beer bottles, and his hands have been pierced by steel bars. Liu Xiaodong said his body has more injuries than he can count.
Hard to be the king of the nose, he retina detachment four times
While the Bojangles, but are the public common stunts, in order to practice the stunts, Liu Xiaodong began to think about how to make himself unique. He came up with the idea of working on his nose.
Because he didn't know the technique at first, he lost his retinas four times during the process of pumping up car tires with his nose due to excessive force. His voice had become nasal and his nose was often infected.
There are rewards for giving. After experiencing unbearable pain, Liu can finally call himself the King of Nose. His nose can perform screwdriver through the nose into the throat, car inner tube full of people he can use his nose to the inner tube full of air to stand on it to let people fall down, but also in half an hour to the car tires full of air and normal on the road. 2010 June, he spent 1 minute and 40 seconds with his nose will be connected to the 20-meter-long fire hose on the hot water bag blowing burst, the success of the challenge to the world Guinness Book of Records, became a deserved King of the Nose.
The reporter on-site experience to the car inner tire inflation, with a high-pressure cylinder after 10 minutes has been tired and panting, the inner tire is just full. Liu, on the other hand, used only 2 minutes to fill the inner tube with air.
He wants to make a TV series reflecting the life of a stuntman
While performing is hard, Liu doesn't want to change his profession, which he has grown to love.
After getting married in 2005, Liu Xiaodong had one more thing to worry about. "Now I have to go home every half a month to see my wife and children, and although I love my career, my family is also very important." Liu Xiaodong said.
Talking about his future plans, Liu Xiaodong said he would like to join hands with artists such as "Iron Shoe King", "Iron Ball Warrior" and "Thunderbolt Calligraphy" to make a TV series reflecting the real life of artists, called "Stunt Life". TV series called "Stunt Life". "Many people have seen the glamorous side of the stunt performers and do not know the pain and suffering behind them, making this movie is to make people understand the side behind the stunt performers." Liu Xiaodong said.
Liu Xiaodong has contacted many stunt artists who are interested in making this TV series.
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