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At the age of 12, [20] Van Damme joined the Centre National de Karaté (National Center of Karate) under the guidance of Claude Goetz in Belgium. Van Damme trained for four years and he earned a spot on the Belgian Karate Team; he later trained in full-contact karate and kickboxing with Dominique Valera. [21]
In 1982, he emigrated to Hollywood together with childhood friend Jean-Claude Van Damme in search of becoming an action star. Bloodsport (1988) was their first major film. [ 5 ] The two previously collaborated on Breakin' (1984), and went on to appear in Kickboxer (1989), in which Qissi portrayed the Thai villain Tong Po, Lionheart (1990), and ...
Abdel Qissi (born 20 January 1960) is a Moroccan-Belgian actor and former boxer with eight recorded fights in the early 1980s. As an actor, he is best known for his collaborations with Jean-Claude Van Damme, having starred in Lionheart (1990), The Quest (1996), and The Order (2001).
Jean-Claude Van Damme’s career began with a whimper.. The Belgian actor and martial artist arrived in Hollywood in 1982 determined to become a movie star. But over the next five years, the best ...
Hard Target is a 1993 American action film directed by Hong Kong film director John Woo in his American film directorial debut. The film stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Chance Boudreaux, an out-of-work homeless Cajun merchant seaman and former United States Force Recon Marine who saves a young woman named Natasha Binder (Yancy Butler) from a gang of thugs in New Orleans.
The name "Rob Van Dam" was given to him in 1992 by Ron Slinker, a promoter in Florida, possibly because of his martial arts experience and his resemblance to actor Jean-Claude Van Damme. [272] During the early years of his career, he used a "Moonsault Split" as finisher, until he adopted the Frog Splash (named Five Star Frog Splash) as finisher ...
But since then, everybody’s gotten into the act, from elder action icons like Jackie Chan and Jean-Claude Van Damme to Jeff Bridges (on TV’s The Old Man) and Bob Odenkirk (in 2021’s Nobody).
Jean-Claude Van Damme shares memories from the making of the film "Double Impact," in which he played twin brothers, as it turns 30.