TWILIGHT

For all the Twilight fans out there, we thought you would enjoy a little trivia about one of the stars. Taylor Lautner who plays Jacob in the best selling movie, started as a karate champion!! That's right!
Lautner began studying karate at the age of six in Michigan. By the following year, he began winning tournaments. He was soon invited to train with seven-time world karate champion Mike Chat and, when he was eight, he was asked to represent his country in the twelve years and under division in the World Karate Association where he proved himself by becoming the Junior World Forms and Weapons champion, winning three gold medals.He continued to flourish in the martial arts circuit; in 2003, at only eleven years old, he was ranked number one in the world for NASKA's Black Belt Open Forms, Musical Weapons, Traditional Weapons and Traditional Forms and, by the age of twelve, he won Junior World Championships.

As an actor, the show that first propelled him to stardom is one you may have seen: the Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl.

Taylor as Jacob Black in Twilight