Anyone heard of this before
The Cossack martial art of Hopak. There is a dance form with kind of dancing katas and conditioning and a martial form.
Don't know why you are so against Russian/Slavic martial arts.Same useless show-off as Systema and Kadochnikov styles, just with Ukrainian origins, not Russian.
Don't know why you are so against Russian/Slavic martial arts.
Hopak is far from useless for conditioning and flexibility strength that has direct martial arts applications.
Alot of martial techniques were preserved in dance as a kata.
I'm against shitty arts, especially when they claim their lineage from Kievan Rus <Lmaoo>. For conditioning, flexibility and strength I'd better do some gymnastics.
The caveat of that is that the world famous killers were also mostly famous for their cavalry and not their infantry.Gymnastics you get the association with some flexible dancing girl with a pom pom, Hopak is part of a tradition of world famous killers it's a stronger base.
Remembering that 18th and 19th century cavalry was about 5x harder than modern day infantry.The caveat of that is that the world famous killers were also mostly famous for their cavalry and not their infantry.
Remembering that 18th and 19th century cavalry was about 5x harder than modern day infantry.
For real, bruh, why are you searching those bullshit-do systems? Speaking about ex-Soviet countries, the most developed are all kinds of Olympic combat sports (boxing, wrestling, judo) and sambo. Everything, where you can see see words like "ancient", "tactical", "spetznaz", "traditional slavic" etc., just sucks.
The first drill they are doing is actually a good sensitivity exercise similar to what you see in bagua or tai chi.I honestly don't even know what Systema is.
It is a Russian systemI honestly don't even know what Systema is.
Russian Martial arts suck ask @DexterIt is a Russian system
Remembering that 18th and 19th century cavalry was about 5x harder than modern day infantry.
Yes I am aware Hopak is a dance.Hopak is literally dance that was performed after battle as victory dance around camp fire while drinking.
Theres literally zero combat or martial art function in it.
Some old school ex-soviet military guys might know a little bit and might teach it for the hell of it like i was taught but otherwise its just a ukrainian national dance these days performed at shows.
Yes it develops coordination and flexibility but so does breakdancing, ballet or hip hop
Yes I am aware Hopak is a dance.
But the point is there is Combat Hopak as well, considered to be based upon martial movements in the dance and also most likely other techniques.
Time-stamped. You can see them doing drils and some form of sparring.
It was founded by this guy, Volodymyr Pylat who is a Ukrainian Cossack.
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https://hopak.km.ua/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_Hopak
"It can be trained in light, semi and full contact formulae. Combat Hopak includes techniques of traditional Ukrainian folk fist fighting, folk wrestling, Cossack sabre fencing, and Cossack war dances like the Hopak and the Metelystia".
So even if it's basically some kind of modern form mixed with some Ukrainian folk wrestling and Hopak dance it's still legit and pretty cool I think.