Taylor Lautner karate background offers stunts for 'Rolling Stone' photo shoot and more

Lautner splashes in the coast for his photoshoot with Rolling Stone (left) and shown at age
11 hacking karate as the Junior World Champ. SplashNewsOnline.com / CelebrityGossip.net 

Taylor Lautner may be the young blood in the Twilight: New Moon saga but he's no stranger to kicking butt.

The 17-year-old beefed-up hottie is already headed straight to the cover of Rolling Stone magazine and will be posing upside down for some of the photos, some fans asking how'd he do that?

The Twilight star and karate master (shown below in Access Hollywood's video) managed to wrangle in top championship karate award honors at just 11 years old (shown above right).

He managed four styles of karate and at 12 years of age won the Junior World (yes, World) Championship.

Check out the video below and even more Taylor Lautner features here.

Will we be seeing his on-screen ego "Jacob" tossing any chops?

"I mean Jacob really doesn't have any martial arts skills, so I think it would be untrue for me to be using some of those," he said.
"But, the thing with Jacob is that he is clumsy before his transformation, he trips when he walks. Once he transforms, he is very agile so I think that's where most of it will come into play."

Adding, "We've got a few things up our sleeves that I'll be able to do to show Jacob's agility post transformation."

Video: Access Hollywood, Taylor's Photoshoot

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