Volodymyr Pylat
Volodymyr Pylat comes from a Cossack family in western Ukraine and in 1985 systematized Combat Hopak, a martial art based on the Cossack dance.
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Ukraine
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Biography
Volodymyr Pylat is the founder of the Ukrainian martial art Combat Hopak (Boiovyi Hopak). He comes from a Cossack family in western Ukraine.
In 1985 he systematized and codified Combat Hopak, which draws on elements of the Zaporizhian Cossack dance and folk techniques.
We have not been able to verify his date of birth, his teachers, or further details of his life in the sources.