{"id":7996,"date":"2013-11-27T06:05:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T20:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7996"},"modified":"2024-07-16T07:02:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T21:02:13","slug":"damme-this-guy-is-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7996","title":{"rendered":"Damme this guy is good!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belgian-born martial artist and Hollywood star of several 1990s action films, including &#8216;Universal Soldier&#8217; and &#8216;Timecop&#8217;, Jean-Claude Van Damme, as he himself says here, has most definitely &#8220;led a life of ups and downs&#8221; but at 53, he shows that he&#8217;s still got it, with this jaw-dropping stunt.<br \/>\nHe performs his famous Chinese split, while standing on the side mirrors of two Volvo FM trucks running in reverse, demonstrating the precision and directional stability of Volvo Dynamic Steering.<\/p>\n<p>This amazing feat was filmed in one take in Spain, on a closed-off landing strip at sunrise, by Swedish film director, Andreas Nilsson with music by Irish singer-songwriter, Enya.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2013\/11\/16\/245607276\/howd-they-do-that-jean-claude-van-dammes-epic-split\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2013\/11\/16\/245607276\/howd-they-do-that-jean-claude-van-dammes-epic-split<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgian-born martial artist and Hollywood star of several 1990s action films, including &#8216;Universal Soldier&#8217; and &#8216;Timecop&#8217;, Jean-Claude Van Damme, as he himself says here, has most definitely &#8220;led a life of ups and downs&#8221; but at 53, he shows that he&#8217;s still got it, with this jaw-dropping stunt. He performs his famous Chinese split, while &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7996\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Damme this guy is good!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration","category-pr-and-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56447,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996\/revisions\/56447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}