jean claude van damnit...

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i just watched bloodsport on TNT and i hated it. I usually feel great after going to the gym and strong and lean but after watching van damn's huge upper body/abs it just pissed me the hell off . Anyone know what his workout was like back then? or was it mostly great genetics + pill popping? anyone at all know?!

 

[jackangel]

i absolutely guarantee that you don't need to know a damned thing about his workout.

but i love that movie. not his first film, but the best and the original, as far as i'm concerned.

KUMITE MOTHERFUCKER.

 

[glennds]

have you seen him lately? it is kinda sad how much he has aged. just doesnt look well for his age. he is rumored to have done a lot of rec drugs.

 

[pdaddy]

I read somewhere that he was a real tool and started smarting off to his body guard a few years back at some night club and his bodyguard knocked him the fuck out.

 

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i absolutely guarantee that you don't need to know a damned thing about his workout.

but i love that movie. not his first film, but the best and the original, as far as i'm concerned.

KUMITE MOTHERFUCKER.

i agree it was his best film - along with IN HELL. SO MANY people don't know what that movie is or have ever seen it - but it is one of the greatest movies i have ever seen.

i still would like to know about how his workout routine was back then and what supps he took, etc. The perfect body to have if i thought about it would have to be his in bloodsport. Just lean as hell and cut. Amazing. I just hope i wouldn't have to use steroids or anything like that since i don't know much about the stuff to get there. Oh well, im guessing if i keep busting my ass in the gym and start up some cardio 1-2x/week i can look better with time on just protein powder as a supp.

 

[H_T_]

I read somewhere that he was a real tool and started smarting off to his body guard a few years back at some night club and his bodyguard knocked him the fuck out.

Chuck Zito. one punch knock out.

 

[eat big]

He's gotten a few DUI's too.

 

[H_T_]

i just watched bloodsport on TNT and i hated it. I usually feel great after going to the gym and strong and lean but after watching van damn's huge upper body/abs it just pissed me the hell off . Anyone know what his workout was like back then? or was it mostly great genetics + pill popping? anyone at all know?!

lmao!!! Paula, the guy was 5'7''. lmao @ "Huge upper body".

 

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He's gotten a few DUI's too.

that's so horrible. The guy had SUCH a great body. You'd think he would be smarter like some of our old timers on EF here that are taking care of their bodies. Look at radar, for example, he's OVER 50 but he's over 50x in BETTER shape than young 17 year old me!

and ouch...a punch from chuck zito would suck.

 

[jackangel]

it's fine if you want his physique, but i don't think knowing a single thing about his workouts, diet, or supplementation regime will help you.

 

[c3bodybuilding]

He was actually a bodybuilder before anything else. He was Mr. Belgium a few times. Then he focused on karate (never a kickboxer like he claimed) and got into movies.

I used to think Van Damm was HUGE back then. Then a couple of years ago, I watched kickboxer and thought he was small. Now though I realize he did have an incredible build for an actor. These guys aren't Mr. O athletes. Nor any of them trying to get up on the Arnold Classic stage. I tire of people saying so and so star is small. These guys are not like us (into the whole bodybuilding world). Having a former Mr. Olympia as an action star (Arnold) will probably *never* happen again. Compared to the everyday people and other stars, Stallone, Van Damm, Vin Diesel, the Rock, etc ARE huge.

 

[c-sharp minor]

He is/was a crackhead.

Bloodsport was a good flick though.

 

[GoldenDelicious]

kickboxer was a better one though

he always came across as a guy who knew how to have a good time, that one...like the time he was on set, and wolf whistled at a hot brunette that was walking by...and it turned out to be a drag queen he cracked up and blew the drag queen a kiss

 

[H_T_]

lol. wtf happened, Lana? you got blacked out?? is it cuz you're campaigning to become leader of the SWV's?

 

[JayC9]

*pupils like saucers & a white dusted nose* say no to coke kids

and btw Thai's don't kick banana trees

 

[Razorguns]

I liked him in Universal Soldier. Wasn't he in Cyborg or another movie like that?

The guy had the perfect body for women to lust after. Like it needs to be said -- he obviously bonked quite a fine women too cuz of it. I definately took pointers.

 

[MrMuscle]

His earlier movies are exellent. And i also enjoyed IN HELL.

 

[theoak01]

His earlier movies are exellent. And i also enjoyed IN HELL.

In Hell is my fav,good choice

 

[MrMuscle]

i just recently came across the soundtrack to BLOODSPORT, so ive added some of those to my workout mix hehe. trying to find the kickboxer one, but no luck yet.

 

[chefbone]

I'll kick his ass!!!

 

[glennds]

He I used to think Van Damm was HUGE back then. Then a couple of years ago, I watched kickboxer and thought he was small. Now though I realize he did have an incredible build for an actor. These guys aren't Mr. O athletes. Nor any of them trying to get up on the Arnold Classic stage. I tire of people saying so and so star is small. Compared to the everyday people and other stars, Stallone, Van Damm, Vin Diesel, the Rock, etc ARE huge.

in the mid 80s, when Rambo 2 came out, and sly stallone was at the peak of his career, his physique was something we had never seen before on an actor...shredded, ripped, huge. if you see that movie today he looks really small for today's standards.

 

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i just recently came across the soundtrack to BLOODSPORT, so ive added some of those to my workout mix hehe. trying to find the kickboxer one, but no luck yet.

LOL. i thought i was the only one! i love some of those songs. "Kumite, kumite, kumite" ::drums:: etc. really pumps you up

 

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in the mid 80s, when Rambo 2 came out, and sly stallone was at the peak of his career, his physique was something we had never seen before on an actor...shredded, ripped, huge. if you see that movie today he looks really small for today's standards.

i know that for alot of people here on EF van damn and stallone in rambo 2 do NOT look that big but when i compare them to myself (only been lifting from july-->starting october now) they look really ripped. If i could get CLOSE to the van damn level in Bloodsport or stallone's build in Rambo i would be really happy. For now, i just think it'll take time + keep up my lifting and increasing on weights. It's harder when no gear or anything like that is used, but it IS possible...right?

 

[Gambino]

He was actually a bodybuilder before anything else. He was Mr. Belgium a few times. Then he focused on karate (never a kickboxer like he claimed) and got into movies.

I used to think Van Damm was HUGE back then. Then a couple of years ago, I watched kickboxer and thought he was small. Now though I realize he did have an incredible build for an actor. These guys aren't Mr. O athletes. Nor any of them trying to get up on the Arnold Classic stage. I tire of people saying so and so star is small. These guys are not like us (into the whole bodybuilding world). Having a former Mr. Olympia as an action star (Arnold) will probably *never* happen again. Compared to the everyday people and other stars, Stallone, Van Damm, Vin Diesel, the Rock, etc ARE huge.

hahahahaha

seriously son, take his belgium cack out of your underage mouth before i bomb you to smithereens

 

[Gambino]

by Daniel Frankel
Feb 5, 1998, 6:10 PM PT

Word spread quickly through Manhattan about a Wednesday night celebrity barroom brawl involving action star Jean-Claude Van Damme and a former bodyguard for not-much-action star Mickey Rourke.

A spokesperson for the upscale topless bar Score's--infamous hangout for the likes of Howard Stern and his cronies--confirms there were indeed fisticuffs involving the parties.

No police report was taken and no arrests were made. Publicists for both Van Damme and Rourke refused to return phone calls on Thursday. a d v e r t i s e m e n t






However, Friday's New York news tabloids were breathless with details, not to mention quotes from the I-Decked-Van-Damme man himself.

"He's just a very arrogant and disrespectful person," says Chuck Zito, the ex-bodyguard (who reportedly also worked for Jean-Claude, as well as Sylvester Stallone, Sean Penn and Charlie Sheen), sometime stuntman and current president of the Hell's Angels, in the New York Post. Zito claims responsibility for the Van Damme clocking.

Trouble started when Van Damme walked into Score's with Rourke. Zito walked over to the table to shoot the breeze with his former bosses.

When Zito and Rourke turned their back on Van Damme, the Street Fighter star reputedly started dissing Zito.

"He was saying, 'Chuck Zito doesn't have any heart,'" Zito tells the newspaper. "There are people who will take that kind of abuse. I am not one of them."

So, Zito asked Van Damme to step outside. The way Zito puts it in the Daily News, the so-called Muscles from Brussels took off his glasses and was "gearing up to come at me."

"I just didn't give him a chance," Zito says.

No, he didn't. Zito floored Mr. Hard Target with a one-two suckerpunch combo.

Rourke played peacemaker: "If I weren't there, Chuck would have killed him," the actor tells the Daily News.

Van Damme left the club under his own power, reportedly signing autographs on the way out.

 

[AAP]

He was pretty big in his BBing days, but I didn't find him to be big at all in Bloodsport. He was bigger in his early flick No Retreat, No Surrender.

I always thought he was a lame actor and his martial arts skills was shitty too. He only had like, 5 moves. That split that the whole movie seemed to be built around, that jumping roundhouse that had him throwing his whole leg out from a distance so just his TOES barely touched the person, the stomach punch that he Bruce Lee'd up to slow motion complete with the extended AAAIIYYYYYEEEEE scream afterwards as the person hit the ground and then the worst fucking move of all... that move where he slowly brought his leg up with his knee cocked and as soon as it (eventually) reached the person's head height, he extended his foot in some little jabbing motion. I hated that. Because it was so fucking phony. Like someone is going to stand there motionless in a fight for three minutes while you prance your little leg up and give them a love tap. Hell, he didn't even have momentum or force behind it. The only explanation I come up with is the other guy stood there thinking "WTF is this moron doing now?"

 

[Basic_wonder]

I am a big fan of kickboxer, I love watching that movie late at night.

 

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He was pretty big in his BBing days, but I didn't find him to be big at all in Bloodsport. He was bigger in his early flick No Retreat, No Surrender.

I always thought he was a lame actor and his martial arts skills was shitty too. He only had like, 5 moves. That split that the whole movie seemed to be built around, that jumping roundhouse that had him throwing his whole leg out from a distance so just his TOES barely touched the person, the stomach punch that he Bruce Lee'd up to slow motion complete with the extended AAAIIYYYYYEEEEE scream afterwards as the person hit the ground and then the worst fucking move of all... that move where he slowly brought his leg up with his knee cocked and as soon as it (eventually) reached the person's head height, he extended his foot in some little jabbing motion. I hated that. Because it was so fucking phony. Like someone is going to stand there motionless in a fight for three minutes while you prance your little leg up and give them a love tap. Hell, he didn't even have momentum or force behind it. The only explanation I come up with is the other guy stood there thinking "WTF is this moron doing now?"

lol AAP, it's sad that i can picture every single one of the moves. And the "AAAIIYYYYYEEEE" scream. lol

 

[jackangel]

no retreat, no surrender is an obscure one, no doubt. props for that. i still liked that flick.

kickboxer was great too, part of the "bloodsport" group of films which were his best. but bloodsport itself was better, because of the idea of top fighters gathering from around the word, and that late-80s/eurotrash music which i enjoyed in the film. and, of course, the supporting characters like chong li and ray jackson (real life donald gibb, aka "ogre" from revenge of the nerds).

cyborg was another good one.

when you guys mentioned "in hell", i thought it was another name for death warrant. but in hell is recent, and i haven't seen it. both prison flicks though...great.

 

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no retreat, no surrender is an obscure one, no doubt. props for that. i still liked that flick.

kickboxer was great too, part of the "bloodsport" group of films which were his best. but bloodsport itself was better, because of the idea of top fighters gathering from around the word, and that late-80s/eurotrash music which i enjoyed in the film. and, of course, the supporting characters like chong li and ray jackson (real life donald gibb, aka "ogre" from revenge of the nerds).

cyborg was another good one.

when you guys mentioned "in hell", i thought it was another name for death warrant. but in hell is recent, and i haven't seen it. both prison flicks though...great.

trust me bro, every person that hasn't seen it thus far that i told to rent or buy has NOT been disappointed. I guarantee you will like it. It is a great classic and a must-have.

 

[jackangel]

ok. hell, i'll go to blockbugger and rent it.

only 3 minutes away.

 

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ok. hell, i'll go to blockbugger and rent it.

only 3 minutes away.

let me know after you watch it what you thought. You will probably hit me with green K for the suggestion for a good movie . it has everything a good movie SHOULD have - working out, murder, fighting, escape from jail, etc.