John Carter' shoot had its ups and downs for Taylor Kitsch

It's the weaker gravitational pull on the surface of Mars that allows John Carter to leap tall armies in a single bound in Edgar Rice Burroughs' story.

But since the "John Carter" cast and crew were grounded very much on Earth for filming, actor Taylor Kitsch had to rely on his cursed harness and wires for his superpowers.

For one sequence in which hisnike outlet woodburn
character leaps into the air while learning to "walk" after first arriving on the planet, Kitsch had to be yanked 85 feet up over and over like a human yo-yo.

"I've got the groin scars to prove it," Kitsch, 30, says almost two years later. "To say the least it was insane. ... It was like you open that trailer door at 7 in the morning to get your day started and the first thing you see is that harness staring back at you.

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"Nothing puts you more in the moment than being tugged f-ing 80 miles an hour up and then into free fall for three or four seconds."

Going into the film, the Canadian actor had an athlete's swagger that he would show these Hollywood types how a real hero does it.

He was a highly touted hockey prospect with cheap nike shox for kids
NHL aspirations a decade ago - before shredding his knee and moving to New York to study acting.

It was Kitsch's turn as a star high school football player in the pilot of "Friday Night Lights" that caught director Andrew Stanton's eye.

But hockey and playing a football jock never prepared Kitsch for the four months of intense weight and cardio training that started at 4 a.m. every morning before the cameras even started rolling.

By the time they did, it felt like he was toiling through his scenes in the heavier atmosphere of Jupiter instead of Utah.

"I just remember one day I literally was so exhausted, I couldn't walk to set and it was probably a hundred yards away," he says. "It was up acreate your own nike shoes online
small hill, and I couldn't walk up there, and I had to get a little cart to take me up there."

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