ULTIMATE VAN DAMME FRIDAY DANCE

I have no idea how I missed this in my many Van Damme Friday posts, but somehow it magically fell through the cracks. Thankfully it was brought to my attention, courtesy of a post on Guyism about the Struttin Leo Dance. Enjoy folks, I imagine you will play this on loop.

VAN DAMME FRIDAY, BROUGHT TO YOU BY MENTOS

It's the Friday before a long weekend, so we all know that you aren't being productive at work. They might as well give everyone this day off too, but unfortunately for most of you they don't. I however took a day off to head to Ann Arbor early. It's that time of year again when I get to go play college under the pretense of going back for football games. While this is awesome for me, it sucks for you. Obviously I won't be posting anything throughout the day to keep your mind occupied until you finally decide to slip out(not to be confused with in) the back door at 1pm.  Thanks to the people at NASA and a few Russian billionaires though, I have devised a scheme in which my pet monkey will log on to The Skinny tomorrow morning and post this for me. If you are reading these words, you already know. It worked. Enjoy your celebrations of labor this weekend; try to make some stories happen.

VAN DAMME FRIDAY MEGAMIX

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I figure it's been long snought out of the spotlight that it's time to ressurect Van Damme Friday. What better way to get it started than to have a huge content dump from past posts? There are a few others that weren't included, but this pretty much sums up the highlights. Look forward to a new post every Friday from now on. He's got a lot of DVD covers that need to make their way onto The Skinny. Let's start off with a few quick facts.

• Known as The muscles from Brussels.
• His fight scenes are so intense that he won't film them in the U.S. for fear of being sued.
• Van Damme moved to the USA in 1981, didn't speak English, didn't know anyone,and only had 2,000 dollars to his name, which he lived on for almost 5 yrs.
• In 1989, he was sued for willfully gouging the eye of an extra in a swordfight while filming CYBORG.
• He won a court case filed against him by martial arts legend Frank Dux, who claimed he collaborated with Van Damme on his 1996 directorial debut THE QUEST, only for Van Damme to deny him any share of the profits. His evidence was lost in an earthquake. Coincidentally, Van Damme played Dux in his debut BLOODSPORT (1988).
• He was once said he learned to speak English by watching the cartoon THE FLINTSTONES.
• He studied classical ballet for five years
• Is giving his fans the chance to look just like him - by launching his own clothes line.
• Wants the world to know he is back for good.
• HARD TARGET (1993) originally was to end with a boat chase, but was changed to a horseback chase due to his insistence.
• In TIMECOP (1994), while riding in the sled which will transport him into the future, Jean-Claude Van Damme takes out a stick of chewing gum called Black Black, a brand of Japanese gum. During 1994, Van Damme appeared in television commercials for Black Black chewing gum in Japan.
• Jean-Claude's father's mother was Jewish.
• He can play the piano.

Van Damme summons his fairy spirit

Bloodsport would have been totally different if Hightower was there to ref.

Ed Hightower takes over for JCVD