Just Because: Jean Claude Van Damme 'Breakin' It Down

Posted at 1:30 PM Nov 21, 2008

By Kenny Herzog

A couple weeks, NCDSUV began broadcasting a new feature known as "Just Because", highlighting something inane, obscurely amazing or just plain jaw-dropping from the outlines of pop culture and viral content.

These differ from, say, insanely retarded local ads, or eccentric YouTube karaoke performers, which can be grouped into their own self-referencing regular spotlights. Nor do they need to be burdened by standards of timeliness or having been as-yet-unearthed.

They are the standalone wonders of the cybersphere that made us all get a computer in the first place, and occasionally need to be inserted into a day of normal online programming. Just because.

So while "Just Because" debuted with a an expletive-exclusive mash-up of N.W.A's Straight Outta Compton, and followed up with a Bill Cosby horsey ride (don't ask, just watch), this week we revisit an individual who was on our minds after recently sexually harassing a barely legal Newsweek reporter.

Before JCVD's titular star, Jean Claude Van Damme, was breaking bones or codes of interpersonal conduct, he was busting a move (sort of) on the beaches of Cali to the fresh grooves of hip-hop, losing himself amidst the Technicolor glow of fellow dancers' outrageous street-culture ensembles.

So, enjoy the above, quarter-century-old clip of the muscles from Brussels in the classic cult flick Breakin', because while it's a fun entrant in the ongoing pop-culture game of, "Who would have thought that guy would become the most famous person in this archival scene from a forgotten film?" it's also a reminder than men can look tough in black unitards. A word that apparently could also be ascribed to Van Damme as a human being. And enjoy it, well, just because.

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