Combat Hopak

| famous_pract = Kateryna Tarnovska (founder of Asgarda)

| famous_pract = Kateryna Tarnovska (founder of Asgarda)

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'''Combat Hopak''' (also Boyovyy Hopak, Boyovyi Hopak from {{langx|uk|Бойовий гопак}}) is a [[Cossack]] [[martial art]] from [[Ukraine]]. It was systematised and codified in 1985 by Volodymyr Pylat (a descendant of a Cossack family from western Ukraine). 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]] [[Historical fencing|fencing]], and Cossack [[war dance]]s like the [[hopak]] and the Povzunets (Cossack dance centered around crawling and squat position movements) and the ''[[metelytsia]]''.{{Cite web|url=http://hopak.org.ua/node/8|title=ІСТОРIЯ РОЗВИТКУ ШКОЛИ БОЙОВОГО ГОПАКА Центральна Школа Бойового Гопака|website=hopak.org.ua|access-date=2016-06-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160620090915/http://hopak.org.ua/node/8|archive-date=2016-06-20|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=https://theworld.org/stories/2013/08/15/combat-hopak-ukraines-martial-art-based-traditional-dance|title=Combat Hopak: Ukraine's Martial Art Based on a Traditional Dance|website=Public Radio International|date=15 August 2013 |language=en-US|access-date=2016-06-10}}{{cite news|title=Ukrainians Restore National Culture Through Ancient Cossack Dance Hopak|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2UsRIWbgOE|agency=Worldwide News Ukraine}}{{Cite news|title=Ukrainian Hopak: From Dance for Entertainment to Martial Art|author=Yuliya Pivtorak|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/congress-on-research-in-dance/article/ukrainian-hopak-from-dance-for-entertainment-to-martial-art/11FE9632C947D1663532123655CFEBBA|agency=Cambridge University Press}} Combat Hopak practitioners wear traditional Ukrainian embroidered shirts, wide long cloth belt and [[Sharavary]]. Combat Hopak fighters also wear shoes like practitioners of [[Savate]] and perform kicks while wearing them.

'''Combat Hopak''' (also Boyovyy Hopak, Boyovyi Hopak from {{langx|uk|Бойовий гопак}}) is a [[Cossack]] [[martial art]] from [[Ukraine]]. It was systematised and codified in 1985 by {{ill|Volodymyr Pylat|uk|Пилат Володимир Степанович}} (a descendant of a Cossack family from western Ukraine). 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]] [[Historical fencing|fencing]], and Cossack [[war dance]]s like the [[hopak]] and the Povzunets (Cossack dance centered around crawling and squat position movements) and the ''[[metelytsia]]''.{{Cite web|url=http://hopak.org.ua/node/8|title=ІСТОРIЯ РОЗВИТКУ ШКОЛИ БОЙОВОГО ГОПАКА Центральна Школа Бойового Гопака|website=hopak.org.ua|access-date=2016-06-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160620090915/http://hopak.org.ua/node/8|archive-date=2016-06-20|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=https://theworld.org/stories/2013/08/15/combat-hopak-ukraines-martial-art-based-traditional-dance|title=Combat Hopak: Ukraine's Martial Art Based on a Traditional Dance|website=Public Radio International|date=15 August 2013 |language=en-US|access-date=2016-06-10}}{{cite news|title=Ukrainians Restore National Culture Through Ancient Cossack Dance Hopak|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2UsRIWbgOE|agency=Worldwide News Ukraine}}{{Cite news|title=Ukrainian Hopak: From Dance for Entertainment to Martial Art|author=Yuliya Pivtorak|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/congress-on-research-in-dance/article/ukrainian-hopak-from-dance-for-entertainment-to-martial-art/11FE9632C947D1663532123655CFEBBA|agency=Cambridge University Press}} Combat Hopak practitioners wear traditional Ukrainian embroidered shirts, wide long cloth belt and [[Sharavary]]. Combat Hopak fighters also wear shoes like practitioners of [[Savate]] and perform kicks while wearing them.

==Ukraine==

==Ukraine==