Carl van der Linde stumbled across the Saber-Tooth School of Combat Hopak by chance.
discovered the Saber-Tooth School of Combat Hopak whilst doing a little online research. It's a centre teaching the Cossack martial art that marries traditional Ukrainian fist fighting, folk wrestling and Cossack sabre fencing with Cossack war dances like the Hopak and the Metelytsia. Initially looking for a place to continue his boxing, the school's distinctive appearance evoked something more in him.
Previously in Zanzibar, working on a story about street culture , Carl travelled next to Istanbul before arriving in Lviv in Western Ukraine."A lot of people associate that part of the world with the Soviet grip, and I could see it – Ukraine obviously suffered in the Soviet era. They had been very rich in culture, but it was all stripped away by the Soviets, so, originally, I wanted to do a piece on the Ukrainian cultural revival.
Disappointed but not totally disheartened, he remembered a YouTube video he'd found back before he'd arrived at the school, of students running around in the Carpathian Mountains."It's visually stunning, a bunch of people who you can't place in terms of which martial art it is or where they are.
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