Vladimir Pilat founded a combat version of the traditional Ukrainian dance, Gopak. He married one of his students and turned his lover into an Amazon, but couldn't hold on to her. After encouraging his wife to adapt the new martial art for women, she went much further and set up her own rival training school.
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