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Mark Allen Hicks |
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Last Updated on 2012-3-18
by Dean Lucas
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While trying out for a Nike TV commercial staring
LeBron James a stunt man/marital artist Mark Allen Hicks attempted to do a black flip for the camera. It didn't work and unluckily for him his failed back flip was captured on camera and uploaded to the internet where it spread like wildfire. In Nov 2006 the Viral marketing company,
The Viral Factory, collated
page impression figures from websites such as YouTube and Google Videos. They determined that this video as of Nov 2006 had been viewed 80 million times.
(Click to see the Top 10 Viral videos) Hicks himself didn't know of his fame until a friend called and said, "that was so funny! I just saw you on the Jay Leno show!" Hicks was puzzled because he had never been on the Leno show. He quickly checked online and to his horror had discovered that the casting agency had leaked his audition video. While at first he was angry he was able to parlay his new found fame into creating a full length movie called,
Afro Ninja: Destiny.
The Commericial
The commercial was for Nike's Lebron James in the Chamber of Fear Series. Mike was reported to have stumbled out of the audition with a bloody nose and no role in the commercial. After mark's "failed" audition the casting guys proclaimed "no more flips" to the next few stunt men waiting to audition. However, later Mike was able to come back another audition and was booked for the commerical.
Fight Science
National Geographic did a show called
Fight Science that explored how the designs and techniques of weaponry can exponentially increase an already fearsome fighter's impact, control, and range. Mike Hicks was one of the fighting "experts" that show-cased their skills in the show.
www.afro-ninja.com
While people were trying to track down Afro Ninja in a case of
misidentification one Shawn Tanner was fingered as the AfroNinja in
the video. Shawn was quick to point that he had nothing to do with
the the video and that his flash site www.afro-ninja.com
had existed years before the video went viral.
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Aug 08 2010 9:10 am
the cool thing is, I checked this guy's IMDB, and I found out that he was in one of my favorite Hong Kong movies when I was younger, "Gen-Y Cops". He played FBI Agent Tucker, and he has a pretty cool fight scene in the end.