Martial Arts Around the World
| January 9, 2019
Combat Hopak – Ukraine
If you take a bit of fist fighting, folk wrestling, and Cossack sabre fencing, and add war dances such as Hopak and Metelycia, you’ll get Combat Hopak. It was systematized by Volodymyr Pylat, a descendant of Cossacks, in 1985.
The reason the martial art was mixed with dances was to hide from the Soviet Union, which suppressed Cossack military traditions. Apart from kicks, strikes, and grappling, many techniques resemble the Cossack dance, with fighters quickly moving from crouches to high jumps.
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