C.J.: Bill 'Superfoot' Wallace also has quick hands

Evan Kail took one upside the head from martial arts legend Bill "Superfoot" Wallace.

Wallace was in Brooklyn Center for an appearance Saturday at White Tiger Martial Arts.

"Awesome Bill 'Superfoot' Wallace was the undefeated middleweight full contact champion back in the late '70s to mid-80s," said Rob Frankovich, master instructor at White Tiger, who thinks it's cool that Wallace does seminars despite having "both hips and a knee replaced." Frankovich said he watched Superfoot's interview with Kail, founder of Stone Arch Entertainment, but had not seen Kail's "In the Closet" YouTube show, viewable at http://tinyurl.com/h3eb9bk

"He's known for the speed of his kicks, which is why they call him Superfoot. They clocked one of his kicks at over 60 mph," said Kail. "He's one of the deadliest people alive."

What does that mean? "It means if he fought anybody, chances are he'd win," said Kail.

Shouldn't "deadliest" mean Wallace could kill you? "That was something I wanted to ask him but didn't because I didn't want to be rude," Kail told me.

"He hit me once and he wasn't doing it full force, he was just doing it to demonstrate, and I could feel that were he to connect he would have just sent my rib out the other side of my body," Kail said. "What a great teacher he is. I learned so, so much in the three hours I had with him. He just goes around and shares his experiences and had us doing these drills that were really effective."

"Yeah, he slapped me," said Kail, again laughing. That was nothing compared to the kicking demonstration.

Kail is a first-degree in both tae kwon do and kumdo. I was on hand during the summer when he passed his tae kwon do first-degree black belt test.

Paul Magers was an intern. Huh, I wrote a couple of days ago, because I couldn't imagine the über anchor was ever a beginner.

I was kind of right. "Paul wasn't an intern at KSTP; he worked there part time while he was living with me and going to law school. He was in the 'dispatch shack' monitoring police and fire radios and dispatching our crews," Ron Magers e-mailed, correcting the recollection of his former Twin Cities co-anchor Cyndy Brucato.

The first lines in the e-mail from Magers, the über anchor of Chicago, read: "I don't recognize, and can hardly remember, the guy in that photo. Give Ms. Brucato credit for being the first woman to co-anchor an evening newscast at KSTP-TV."

Now I'm curious if Paul or Ron were ever interns anywhere.

Hell's Kitchen is clearly run by adults.

"We're never shy about sharing our successes, so we do feel obligated to tell you about our failures," read an e-mail to Valentine's Day diners whose meals were delayed by the tender loving care required to prepare mega-size "tomahawk steaks."

Dinner times got extended and "and every next seating got further and further behind," co-founder Cynthia Gerdes told me Wednesday.

"First of all we took care of their meals that night," said Gerdes, who said she didn't know the total number, and "we are sending them gift cards to come back on our nickel a second time. We know which people had reservations."

C.J. can be reached at cj@startribune.com and seen on Fox 9's "Jason Show." E-mailers, please state a subject; "Hello" does not count. Attachments are not opened.