CHUCK Norris couldn’t resist attempting Jean-Claude Van Damme’s epic split, but the action star appears to have gone one better.
Starring in a festive video, Norris has recreated Van Damme’s feat doing the splits between two jets while balancing a human Christmas tree of 11 tactical airborne comrades on his shoulders.
Van Damme did it first, did it better, did it backwards, and (most importantly) actually did it.
Weak sauce, Chuck.
Said everything I was going to say.
Although the flares for the lights on the tree was cute, I’ll admit.
Jean-Claude Van Damme’s so tough that he’s slated to replace the Hulk in the next Avengers movie
Ooh, Van Damage Facts!
Jean-Claude Van Damme is so sexy that his films are only available as a prescription fertility treatment in Malaysia, Indonesia, seven US states, and the District of Columbia.
That’s a CGI Chuck… it’s a parody done by some Hungarian studio as a Merry Christmas joke.
So wait … you’re saying that he wasn’t actually doing the splits between two jets while balancing a human Christmas tree of 11 tactical airborne comrades on his shoulders.
Color me shocked!
Cute! Charmingly ridiculous in a way that is fun and underlines how freakin’ incredible Van Damme’s real feat was.
No, he’s saying that Chuck wasn’t even involved at all. A reasonable response to the folks who thought it was a weak attempt on Chuck Norris’ part.
Bingo!
I thought it was Chuck preparing for the thousand years of darkness that he said would start last year.
Being able to do splits is impressive enough, doing what Jean-Claude Van Damme did is amazing. Even though the platforms his feet were resting on and the wires he was attached were CGIed out.
The point of the Volvo ad, BTW, was to demonstrate how precise and safe Volvo’s automated steering technology is. Volvo has put much work into the SARTRE project, a version of self-driving in which vehicles are all virtually linked, driving very closely together to conserve fuel and decrease road congestion, with only the lead vehicle being actively controlled by a human. The key bit of the technology is the vehicle to vehicle control that allows them to act precisely relative to each other, much more than humans ever could do. They are hoping to usher in an era in which trucks can function in tightly packed conveys with fewer drivers having to be active participants; passenger vehicles too. Doubtful that Van Damme would have done the trick with human drivers.
The fact that few of those who know of the ad could state what the ad was about, just how amazing it is that Van Damme did it, makes one think that perhaps this wasn’t such an effective ad after all.
Check out Channing Tatum’s epic splits
You’re assuming a lot here. I noticed and remembered what the ad was about. I don’t see any reason to believe that most people missed that.
This is a meme I could completely get behind. Van Damme has never seemed to take himself all that seriously, and other action hero types buying into it would be hilarious.
First, CGI Chuck has a beard that he bought from Hobby Lobby. Second, those planes were flying forward. Where is the challenge in that. Third, the real Chuck would do that with helicopters.
Space Shuttles. 
Chuck Norris would do the splits to the wingtips of just one plane.
Chuck Norris would do the splits on the hood of a Lamborghini allowing it to take off and fly
Correct. It wasn’t Chuck Norris actually doing the splits between two jets while balancing a human Christmas tree of 11 tactical airborne comrades on his shoulders, it was Justin Bieber and, by the use of computer tricks, they made it look like Chuck Norris did it.