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Jean Claude van Damme

Jean Claude van Damme is his better years

Born on Oct 18 1960, Jean-Claude Van Damme is the son of Eugene Van Varenberg and Eliana Van Varenberg. "The muscles from Brussels" originally known as Jean-Claude Van Varenberg, started martial arts at the age of 11. His father Eugene Van Varenberg introduced him to martial arts when he saw his son was physically weak. Jean-Claude started with Shotokan Karate and later studied Kickboxing, Taekwon-Do, and Muay Thai. He won the European professional karate association's middleweight championship as a teenager, and also beat the 2nd best karate fighter in the world. His goal was to be number one but got sidetracked when he left his hometown of Brussels.

He came to Hong Kong at the age of 19 for the first time and felt insured to do action movies in Hong Kong. So in 1981 Van Damme left Hong Kong and moved to Los Angeles, where he was trying for 5 years. He took English classes while working as carpet layer, pizza delivery man, limo driver, and thanks to Chuck Norris he got a job as a bouncer at a club. He gave Van Damme a small role in the movie 'Missing in Action', but it wasn't good enough to get anybody's attention. Then in 1984 he got a role as a villain named Ivan in the low-budget movie _No Retreat, No Surrender (1985)_ .

Then one day, while walking on the streets, Jean-Claude spotted a producer for Cannon Pictures, and showed some of his martial arts abilities which gave him the leading role in Bloodsport (1988). But the movie, filmed in Hong Kong was so bad; when it was completed they shelved it for almost two years. It might have never been released if Van Damme did not help them to recut the film and begged producers to release it. They finally released the film, first in Malaysia and France and then into the U.S. and at last the miracle happened. 'Bloodsport', shot on a meager 1.5 million dollar budget, became a U.S box-office hit in the spring of 1988. It made about 30 million world and audiences supported this film for its new sensational action star Jean-Claude Van Damme.


Jean Claude van Damme in Bloodsport

His martial arts assets, highlighted by his ability to deliver a kick to an opponent's head during a leaping 360-degree turn, and his good looks led to starring roles in higher budgeted movies like Cyborg (1989), Lionheart (1990), Double Impact (1991) and Universal Soldier (1992). It was 1994 when he scored his big breakthrough $100 million worldwide hit Timecop (1994). But in the mean time his personal life was on the edge.

It began to show up in his career when all the anticipated projects from him began to tank in the box office like _Quest, The (1996/I)_ (which he directed), Maximum Risk (1996), Double Team (1997); and the three films made less than $50 million combined.

In 1999 he remarried his ex-wife Gladys Portugues and restarted his lost career to attain new goals. With help from his family he faced his problems and made movies like Replicant (2001), Derailed (2002), and In Hell (2003) which did averagely in box office terms, but he tried to give his fans the best, his acting in those movies got better, more emotional and each movie was basically in different action tones.


Jean Claude van Damme compilation

Trivia

- His fight scenes are so intense that he won't film them in the U.S. for fear of being sued.
- Former European Professional Karate Association middleweight champion.
- Former sparring partner of Chuck Norris in the early 80s.

Movies


Universal Souldier III - Trailer

Universal Soldier III: A New Beginning (2009) (pre-production) - Luc Deveraux
Full Love (2009) (filming)
JCVD (2008) - J.C.V.D.
The Shepherd: Border Patrol (2008) - Jack Robideaux
Until Death (2007) - Anthony Stowe
Sinav (2006) - Charles
The Hard Corps (2006) - Phillippe Sauvage
Second in Command (2006) - Cmdr. Samuel 'Sam' Keenan
Wake of Death (2004) -Ben Archer
Narco / Klopp (2004) - Jean-Claude Van Damme fantasmé par Lenny
In Hell (2003) - Kyle
Derailed (2002) - Jacques Kristoff
The Order (2001) - Rudy Cafmeyer / Charles Le Vaillant
Replicant (2001) - Replicant / Garrotte
Inferno (1999) - Eddie Lomax
Universal Soldier: The Return (1999) - Luc Deveraux
Legionnaire (1998) - Alain Lefevre
Knock Off (1998) - Marcus Ray
Double Team (1997) - Jack Quinn
Maximum Risk (1996) - Alain Moreau / Mikhail Suverov
The Quest (1996) - Christopher Dubois
Sudden Death (1995) - Darren McCord
Street Fighter (1994) - Colonel William F. Guile
Timecop (1994) - Max Walker
Hard Target (1993) - Chance Boudreaux
Nowhere to Run (1993) - Sam Gillen
Universal Soldier (1992) - Luc Deveraux / GR44
Double Impact (1991) - Alex / Chad Wagner
Death Warrant (1990) - Louis Burke
Lionheart / Wrong Bet(1990) - Lyon Gaultier
Kickboxer (1989) - Kurt Sloane
Cyborg (1989) - Gibson Rickenbacker
Black Eagle (1988) - Andrei
Bloodsport (1988) - Frank Dux
No Retreat, No Surrender (1986) - Ivan Kraschinsky
Monaco Forever (1984) - Gay Karate Man

Jean Claude van Damme links

www.jeanclaudevandamme.us (official website)
www.jcvandamme.net

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honestly i think jujitsu is the one of the best ninjitsu is also pretty intense.. but i study jujitsu and the only people i havent been able to beat are people in kung fu because their simply too fast witch is what that martial art is based around but while in most martial arts u learn how to punch and kick but at teh same time someone in jujitsu is learning to catch ur arm/leg and either break it or...
by rockvegas on 2009.07.04, 10:40
Hatsumi is a fucking fraud.
Hatsumi is a fucking fraud.
by dazodiac on 2009.06.15, 22:28
I'll go with...
any martial art obviously has a decent advantage over an opponent who hasn't studied. I'll go with Taijutsu and JKD for pure practicality of defence in the street, both equally ruthless and unforgiving, lots incapacitating techniques, both hailed by global security and military agencies. I mean, you've only got to look at what a 78 year old can do with it (Dr Massaki Hatsumi).
by nath-chenloong on 2009.05.20, 23:31
"Filipinos used hard sticks and knives to defeat Spanish soldiers with guns." You are a fucking idiot. You are the epitome of fucking stupidity. If you pull a knife, I'm going to shoot you in-between the...
"Filipinos used hard sticks and knives to defeat Spanish soldiers with guns." You are a fucking idiot. You are the epitome of fucking stupidity. If you pull a knife, I'm going to shoot you in-between the balls. If you forget your knife, I'm going to punch you in the face until you cry. I bet you don't even fucking do Kali, you probably just read about it online.
by dazodiac on 2009.04.27, 00:31
The most useful martial arts.
Ok, Bruce Lee's jeet kune do and other forms of martial arts are ery powerful forms of fighting, but the don't necessarily mean they are as useful today as it is before. If in the streets, Bruce Lee won't survive against 1, 2, or 3 people who have guns or knives. Today 'those' kinds of martial arts aren't really that useful anymore when fighting against guns or knives. I think the most useful, not the best, is Kali Martial Arts....
by martianarts on 2009.04.25, 09:35
San Shou is awesome, but fuck Jeet Kune Do. It's full of a bunch of pussy faggots and Bruce Lee wannabes. And of course you say it's "not a style for sport", because you're too...
San Shou is awesome, but fuck Jeet Kune Do. It's full of a bunch of pussy faggots and Bruce Lee wannabes. And of course you say it's "not a style for sport", because you're too pussy to go in the ring and get punched in the face for real.
by dazodiac on 2009.03.29, 20:38
Jeet Kune Do
Jun fan jeet kune do or "the way of the intercepting fist" is seriously THE best, but it is not a martial art, neither a style for sport, it is merely a name, but all in it, it makes it THE BEST!i have been training only for 4 months, BUT, my sifu(teacher) was trained under Dan Inosanto, Paul Vunaak, and others. It is fast, and teaches to get through any obstacle that the opponent puts up. As bruce lee says,...
by Brandon Lee on 2009.03.29, 05:39
San shou
after reading all of these forums posted its clear you guys aren't listening to each other there is no best martial arts it all depends on the practitioner. But if i had to pick one main martial art to study and practice i would do san shou. Now even tho muy thai has powerful kicks, judo wrestling and greco roman have great takedowns. San shou covers most of that. It delivers powerful kicks great boxing and not to mention great...
by p4pbest on 2009.03.28, 23:26
Wow, you're stupid. Self-trained fighters suck.
Wow, you're stupid. Self-trained fighters suck.
by kingofruas on 2009.03.10, 14:15
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we never to old to learn and we all learn from the rest, who would you fight a trained fighter or somebody that teach themself.... me i would be worried with the selftrained cos the unprodictable but trained you know the next move cos they trained for it.
by webwolf2k on 2009.03.09, 19:56
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