Thursday, May 07, 2009

HOPAK - fighting dance and martial art of Europe

http://www.arthopak.com.ua/en/

Do you know what is "Boyovyy Hopak" ( or gopak )? No? Then you must watch this wideo about Ukrainian national Cossacks martial art! This is one of the most beautiful European martial arts!

IT'S NOT CAPOEIRA!
Traditional ukrainian fighting style!
This is real ukrainian tradition!
Punches, kicks and wrestling technics!



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Do you know maybe how old is this tradicional martial art?

Anonymous said...

you know how old are Cossacks?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taras_Bulba
Read this