Van Damme

[cbraves85]

Anyone know what martial art he studies or studied.

[Greg-VT]

I'm pretty sure it was kick boxing. I could be wrong... it might have been karate.

[aikiMac]

Karate. But the particular style escapes me.

[Cain]

It's Shotokan

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[hao]

I though It was ballet :D

[joke mode off]

[sindo]

His films tend to promote kickboxing - so I guess that must be it.

[Cain]

It's Shotokan karate, his probably only training until he opened up a gym in brussels where he taught "kickboxing" ;)

I read it on several websites in his biography

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[shadow joe]

van damme is more ballet than boxing,

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,1828,00.html


i'd look up other sources but don't have time right now:


think of it this way: would a real martial arts be caught doing all those fake moves and that stupid open mouth "waaaaaaa!"


you know where he straight palms someone and they hold his "anger face" or something for like five minutes...



lame,
joe

[Chazz]

lol well i think he is good at what he does. And thats making movies. He is an actor that looks good doing MA in the movies thats about it. He does have a little MA background but he isnt the best ever.

[inacan]

Yeah he has enough charisma to carry off what he's doing and in hollywood that's all important. He's not going to ever win a Oscar, but I could see him taking a MTV Movie Award.

[Kof_Andy]

Haha Van Dam. I use to love his jump spin kick when I was little. Now watching his film again, I realize how much of a fool I was. lol Hack my gf even though keanu reeves was a martial artist.:eek:

[doctrdev]

Hehe I just remember the TV stations would say "Damme good action!" when playing one of his movies. I can't help but feel sorry for him for all the bad rap he gets...obviously he is a good martial artist in at least the athletic sense...good tone, good flexibility, and a decent competence in movements...he has little credibility as a fighter..entertaining enough to watch, at least in the 80's...

[ratman]

i think he is good at what he does

I must say at one stage he was a god to me. Then i started martial arts and learnt the splits. Then he looked foolish. By the way sho ko sogi( black eagle) had more skills than him, Probably could do the splits also. Come to think of it most of his movies were crap , And he never seemed to fight people with real skills. And the ones who did have skills kinda slacked.
Shocking things that I watched a documentary on him and he really was supposed to be a really good martial artist in his younger days.

[inacan]

He fought Bolo Yeung a bunch of times and Bolo is quite good. It seemed that after the 1980's his movies became more of the action fare rather than the martial arts fare.