The Jean-Claude Van Damme Truck Stunt Was One Hundred Percent Real (The Ultimate Chase Scene)

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5 жыл бұрын

We're so used to seeing CGI and camera trickery nowadays that it's often hard to know what's real. Well, we can tell you with certainty that Van Damme doing the splits between two reversing trucks... 100% real.
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Volvo Trucks - The Epic Split feat. Van Damme (Live Test)
• Volvo Trucks - The Epi...
Volvo Trucks - The Hamster Stunt (Live Test)
• Volvo Trucks - The Ham...
Volvo Trucks - The Technician (Live Test)
• Volvo Trucks - The Tec...
Volvo Trucks - The Ballerina Stunt (Live Test)
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Tap dancers, Jack Delano [Public domain]
Screenshot from Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
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Screenshot from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004)
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Screenshot from Jurassic World (2015)
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Screenshot from Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
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Screenshot from Vigilante 8 (1998)
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Promotional Art from Batman Forever (1995)
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Screenshot from Independence Day (1996)
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Пікірлер: 269

@wahty4635 5 жыл бұрын

Can we all just appreciate Brad’s photoshop skills at the end

@sindri1447 4 жыл бұрын

Fucking hell I want that as a desktop background mate

@TheCheifJason 3 жыл бұрын

@IamGrief887 3 жыл бұрын

Brad is a PS master. My skills are nothing in comparison.

@318DoubleE 5 жыл бұрын

Remember, when it comes to stunt doubles he’s not just good... he’s Damme Good I’ll let myself out.

@patrickm.2653 4 жыл бұрын

Damme right.

@mariosvferretti 3 жыл бұрын

Badum Tss

@geekdivaherself 3 жыл бұрын

I think you mean VaDamme Tss....

@bobbybarnard5589 5 жыл бұрын

just gonna leave a like for Brad's legendary editing

@detonadetonados 5 жыл бұрын

GIVE US A WALLPAPER FROM THIS PHOTOSHOP!!!!!! plz :3

@ForwardSynthesis 5 жыл бұрын

I want that on my wall. Framed.

@uberfuzzy 5 жыл бұрын

I've never wanted a Fracture print so bad until till now

@Verbose_Mode 5 жыл бұрын

OH I have a need

@102Chewy 5 жыл бұрын

After all of that talk of being chased by stuff, they didn't think of the Raiders of the Lost Ark boulder. I think Im getting old.

@darkamora5123 4 жыл бұрын

Darth Vader's TIE fighter, or some speeder bikes. Or really challenge Brad, make everything a view from inside one of the truck's cabs. POV shot looking in the wing mirror, see the other truck JCVD's shadow and all the stuff they did closing in from behind.

@samWiseMac 5 жыл бұрын

Is it just me that noticed the trucks were actually going backwards for the video, that's makes it even more impressive by both JCVD and the drivers.

@NekoMouser 4 жыл бұрын

They were going backward, he had a safety harness on that was painted out in post-production, and they were driving at a fixed speed of 16mph. So, not fast and no real risk of falling. He really did do the stunt and it's still impressive as hell, but it was also slow and backed up by a second layer of protection and safety equipment.

@levicreed1517 5 жыл бұрын

0:07 that damned face gets me every time... i have to rewind to see it cause its just so perfect

@DzoDelinger 5 жыл бұрын

any chance we can get that Brad's artwork

@finn215 5 жыл бұрын

Every time Karl said 'the chase' I envisioned the Beast from the show 'the chase' just running along at 1/5th the speed of light

@The_Doc10 5 жыл бұрын

By the power of greyskull that's brilliant

@wyattwilburn3962 3 жыл бұрын

I'm an American truck driver. I'm leaving this comment while driving. I watch your content all the time while doing so. Keep up with the great content. You've made many days driving much more bearable.

@jacobwansleeben3364 Жыл бұрын

But were you also doing the splits when you left this comment?

@hotcoldman9793 5 жыл бұрын

For the love of god can I get that epic chase scene as a wallpaper! Please!

@hogfry 4 жыл бұрын

It's true. I drove long haul... One time we had a guy at a truck stop get so high he stripped naked and climbed to the top of a gas station pump and passed out. He weighed 390ish pounds and was at best 5 and 1/2 feet tall. They needed to use a forklift with a pallet on it to get him back off.

@Odience101 5 жыл бұрын

You talking about how dancers being rip af and able to kick ass unpredictably, kinda adds some consideration to Lingybeige's theory that dancing was formed as an expression of physical strength... or w/e it was.

@fan9775 5 жыл бұрын

Like that episode of Jane and the Dragon?

@shinobisauren 4 жыл бұрын

@@kevinmoore2474 Iirc Capoeira is more (or started as) fighting hidden in dance as it started among slaves who were forbidden from openly training martial arts.

@joer8854 4 жыл бұрын

@DualityJack My ex did point for years and spent so much time on her toes they look really strange. Almost all of her toes form a perfectly straight line.

@dj.ghostface 5 жыл бұрын

JCVD had protective gear to keep him from falling and getting hurt,, but he claims he didnt need it, and that he could have done it without the gear, which was removed in after effects

@Flustershy 3 жыл бұрын

I also remember one of those Volvo commercials having the CEO or something standing on top of a cargo container being held above the Sea from a crane and the only thing holding that entire container was like a Volvo trucks locking pin or something like that. Then there was something about the trucks brakes being shown in another add. Overall good stuff.

@spthibault 4 жыл бұрын

To quote my brother, "need to stay awake? That's why they put the straw hole in the disposable coffee cup lids, for truckers ... 'cause cuttin ma self was makin me woozy'" -Cody my hilarious brother. Lol

@AxelKuno 4 жыл бұрын

I love how volvo prides themselves with safety, I mean, that is their brand, and then proceeds to endanger people for their adds :D

@JoshFromGA 5 жыл бұрын

This is even more amusing with the CC on. It can't cope with the accents.

@jacob_ian_decoursey_the_author 5 жыл бұрын

For what it's worth, Enya does make any situation relaxing. Prove me wrong. Try.

@dear-future-ai 4 жыл бұрын

Jacob DeCoursey itd be pretty bad in a horror movie during a suspenseful unseen threat looksie montage... like trying to find a haunted doll, or possessed child, in a large manor

@oldpro8783 5 жыл бұрын

I grew up on bloodsport.. god damn van damme is a treasure.

@waynusq 4 жыл бұрын

I stopped at 7:06 to type this. As a martial artist, my friends and I would spar fairly heavily. We also raved pretty heavy in college. We always wondered if we could teach someone who could shuffle how to fight because they would be unstoppable 😶

@mikestone6078 4 жыл бұрын

Can we just stop for a second and appreciate the one thing that's been omitted in this video? Those trucks were going backwards. So, no chase scene, unless everthing is in front of the trucks and following. Also, JC didn't see where he was going. It was to show off the precision sterring and whatnot capabilities and how smooth the trucks are driving computer assisted or so. Makes it even more epic, admittedly. Side note: I can confirm the knowing smirk regarding GFs being able to do the split. Ballet dancers ... Dancers in general. Aspire to become worthy of them and you'll eventually understand why that's the pinacle of what a man can achieve.

@Jah_Coby 4 жыл бұрын

8:33 ... Read

@windwulfboi 5 жыл бұрын

I just absolutely love this sheer insanity on this channel. You guys have so much fun.

@TheDontmatter01 4 жыл бұрын

Im a truck driver from Texas and I binge watch your videos while driving

@thesquishedelf1301 5 жыл бұрын

That photoshop at the end is truly amazing. I want that as a print, just put it as one of your designs on your merch store.

@Corosar 5 жыл бұрын

That is what that game is called! I remember specifically the bee van guy from back when i was younger. I remember renting it and never knowing what the game was called ever again so it became lost again. Now that you brought it up and where it came from. AHHH memories!

@commonsense9173 5 жыл бұрын

You should really put a download link for that epic image so I can use it for my desktop. Pretty please?

@MrFlashpoint1978 4 жыл бұрын

Your victory sip from the intro stinger made me decide to never unsubscribe.

@aimieelemieux9932 3 жыл бұрын

This is probably one of the only shows that can audibly make me laugh and keep me laughing -Aimiee Lemieux

@mariareed5238 4 жыл бұрын

OMG the picture in the end, I couldn't stop laughing, was the funniest thing I have seen in a long time.

@WardOfSouls 5 жыл бұрын

Somehow, I just knew Independence Day would be the final addition to the image. ... Probably because he left the top empty until the very end. Well played, you sold the joke the whole segment.

@danwood4443 5 жыл бұрын

Love it guys, keep up the good work x

@sirdot24 5 жыл бұрын

I was waiting for them to add Buzz and Woodie on the RC Car to the end picture.

@jordant2153 3 жыл бұрын

that cocky smile at the beginning cracks me up xD

@DarkKnightofThrones 5 жыл бұрын

As soon as he said "fill the whole background", I immediately thought of the ship from Independence Day. And what does Karl say....? Nice, man.

@XcapeArtist1111 4 жыл бұрын

That image was excellent

@tripalong 4 жыл бұрын

Wow thanks for that info about distracted truckers. I now have a new phobia.

@BainesMkII 5 жыл бұрын

For the final chase image, I really wanted to see the sky replaced with the mouth of the planet form of Unicron.

@jojotheswede8444 4 жыл бұрын

That hamster is a champ

@__bic__ 3 жыл бұрын

that smug face at the beginnig is the best

@Riku0990 5 жыл бұрын

OH COME ON! you didn't even mention the fact the trucks were REVERSING, that's some serious tech right there to make a truck reverse with such steering stability!

@iamblaine 5 жыл бұрын

There is literally a box at the bottom at 8:29 that says this

@BickSnarf 5 жыл бұрын

I love brads photoshop jobs. 10/10 brad every time

@jorgeshaft1483 5 жыл бұрын

Strong photoshop there at the end. Well done Brad!

@BrowncoatInABox 4 жыл бұрын

As a trucker in the US I love this

@malinkiireed6287 5 жыл бұрын

Oh man vigilante I forgot about that game. Great skills brad

@Dannerrrr 4 жыл бұрын

"Ball-shatteringly knackered" is brilliant.

@jaquessiemasz8650 4 жыл бұрын

“Ball shatteringly knackering” gonna have to use that sometime 😆

@d0pomein 5 жыл бұрын

I'm a trucker in America, and I LISTEN, not watch, LISTEN to things like your show while driving. You can get your phone to do most things with voice commands. It's illegal in the US to anything on a phone that takes more than 1 button press but you can use bluetooth headsets to do most things handsfree

@brianswindle316 5 жыл бұрын

I'm a truck driver. I call bullshit. Very few truck drivers are on drugs. We get drug tested very regularly. Some live on coffee. The other things you brought up rarely happen.

@caderidley2309 4 жыл бұрын

Jean-Claude Van Damme doesn't do the splits between two reversing Volvo trucks very often but that doesn't stop it from happening

@MoonTrekerAF 5 жыл бұрын

I love Vigilante 8. I still occasionally play it. I mostly play the Jefferson and the Palomino XIII.

@Krisfit138 5 жыл бұрын

I would've also added Anthony Kiedis in his running scene from The Chase

@LunchBoxNM 3 жыл бұрын

Drove one of those trucks, they live up to the hype.

@ihatetobethatguy1481 5 жыл бұрын

You guys are great.

@Nicksoilfield 4 жыл бұрын

Those trucks are driving backwards. It was to show some kind of steering stability system or something like that. They also released a video about the production of the commercial.

@JessycaLunawoona 5 жыл бұрын

We need that wallpaper, it's simply too epic.

@vanishingact8822 5 жыл бұрын

The fact that you talked about dancing and fighting and didn't mention Capoeira lol

@JakeH9678 5 жыл бұрын

His tatoo and shirt is the background great editing

@2ndsnake899 5 жыл бұрын

The ending image was just so funny.

@lucascarter8008 5 жыл бұрын

The vigilante 8... that's a deep cut. Hahaha

@samwms2116 4 жыл бұрын

Ha Ha ha ha You guy's are Crazy! Thanks for that!

@HighlyPotent34 5 жыл бұрын

never wanted a photo-shopped picture more than what I just witnessed at the end.

@raynesorrells1245 5 жыл бұрын

Good job

@stevieb7169 5 жыл бұрын

I was thinking you could also add the London City Tank from Mortal Engines lol

@jordanwhitecar1982 3 жыл бұрын

i work retail, used to work restaurants, and also was a truck driver (a real jack of all trades) and yes, most truckers drive "distracted" but truck drivers also have the best driving records per mile driven of any driver. and i will take a highway full of "distracted" truckers over a highway full of suburban soccer moms any day of the week.

@jmcd21182 4 жыл бұрын

Vigilant 8 🤣 I used to play the RV and the dumpster truck

@steampunkzorua4182 5 жыл бұрын

Personally, I would never want to mess with a slightly crazy, pretty creative paranoid person, because I am one such person and I am almost always thinking of items around me that can be quickly weaponized, especially when I'm uncomfortable / worried about my safety. I am also planning on learning how to fight with my bamboo staff so I can be constantly armed with a legal "weapon".

@dehro 4 жыл бұрын

the ship from independence day was exactly what I was thinking of when they started talking about something in the background :D

@larelare1 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome ender.

@yaboifrost4447 3 жыл бұрын

its may 23rd 2021 and that my ex used to do the splits alone made the vid have my like!

@IamGrief887 3 жыл бұрын

Enya was one of the primary vocalists for Clannad back in the eighties and early nineties.

@jcav124th 5 жыл бұрын

Have you seen the Chuck Norris response to this commercial? It’s epic.

@pickinburgers333 5 жыл бұрын

Brad, I want that Photoshopped image of all the stuff you had to photoshop. It needs to be the background on my laptop lol

@mortifidpenguin 5 жыл бұрын

We need brad to just set up a portfolio site of all of his best photoshops

@erichart8560 4 жыл бұрын

Lol dead ass watch your videos while I drive

@MagicH8balls 5 жыл бұрын

Karl, the outcry is clear, give us the photoshop at the end in wallpaper form!

@Zeuseus6609 2 жыл бұрын

Brad: it needs to fill the entire background Me: Alien Mothership from Independence Day? Karl: do the ship from Independence Day Me: Nailed it!

@CrocTV42 2 жыл бұрын

that look after he said amazing he knows he's cultured

@SirKolaris 4 жыл бұрын

For that picture at the end you should have thrown in a couple of tornadoes for good measure XD

@yeetbeam2273 4 жыл бұрын

"Doing the splits between to screaming juggernauts." All I have in my is the add but two of the juggernaut screaming instead of trucks.

@FIAWOLpi 4 жыл бұрын

I want that epic chase as a poster on my wall

@majinstrings 5 жыл бұрын

7:01 Anyone else hear the Super Mario Bros death sound?

@punisherpr 5 жыл бұрын

We kinda want that wallpaper now, please

@RoximRox 5 жыл бұрын

Can confirm that it played VERY well for the audience.

@westcoastcaper 3 жыл бұрын

The ID4 ship was awesome but I was really hoping for the boulder from Raiders of the Lost Ark lol

@stevedaniw1333 5 жыл бұрын

You didn’t talk about the dolph lundgren Volvo commercial

@ktpys 4 жыл бұрын

Should have done the ship from Prometheus with Charlize Theron running right below Van Damme :)

@clarencemcduffie8598 3 жыл бұрын

Yes the photoshopped skills were super strong here well done...... A truly artistic piece of epic imagery

@intrepidhero 5 жыл бұрын

Nuts. I really wanted them to add the mechanized city of London from "Mortal Engines" to the chase scene at the end.

@fuzzhauze8534 Жыл бұрын

Honestly if I had to do some crazy stunt like that I'd have something like Suicide Silence or Cannibal corpse in my head, the harder the metal the more relaxing it is to me

@alexbarker975 2 жыл бұрын

Capoeira exists. You will be broken by someone who appears to be boneless busting an ungodly move.

@Geeko170 5 жыл бұрын

Also those trucks were going in reverse. That add was showing how well they could reverse the trucks.

@josephfreeman9687 4 жыл бұрын

I drove truck in the US for 20 years and America has some of the most restrictive laws for truckers. Log books that are so complicated that if you make a mistake of driving 5 minutes too early, they can fine you up to $150.00 per for every 15 minutes of illegal drive time. You're allowed 10 hrs of drive time for every day and you cannot exceed 70 hours drive time per week. For every 10 hrs of drive time you must have 6hrs of sleep time and 2hrs of off time. Drug tests can be administered at any time by the Department of transportation and you have 1hr from the time your notified of a drug test to get to the nearest medical facility and provide a drug exam.

@oliverhees4076 5 жыл бұрын

You should get your (potential) kids to do capoeira. It's a martial art that's basically both dance and fighting (using backflips, cartwheels, and generally really fucking agile maneuvers).