Cossack martial arts?

[Don Roley]

I recently watched the Go Warrior program (www.go-warrior.com) and was interested in what I saw on the later half about the Cossack fighting system. There was very little real information and nothing of course about how to contact them. A search here produced the name "S. M. Knyazev's Cossack Style" as well as a bit of spam for someone selling their own tapes. :shrug:

A web search of the above name revealed a web page- in Russian. :idunno:

Is there anything anyone can tell me IN ENGLISH about this/ these groups/s? My better half seems willing to let me explore the world a bit to experience other martial arts and I think I hear the call of mother Russia.

 

[Furtry]

Do a search on Rudolf Laben (sp?), he documented the Cossacks extensively.
Even has a step by step choreographed sword dance they used for teaching sword fighting. That's all remember rite now. I studied this stuff indirectly while in University and, unfortunately, don't have my textbooks or notes handy at this time.

 

[Don Roley]

Tried searching under that name and "Cossack" and came back empty.

The name may be off. Anyone got a possible better idea of how it may be spelled?

 

[Furtry]

GIS under Rudolf Laban sword dance, about 98 pages.

 

[Paul Genge]

When we were in Moscow last year the Go warrior staff were doing the research for the program. They spent time with Michael who put them onto the Cossack people. I am not sure of what the link is, but there was one cossack on the course who was a Systema instructor from a Siberian border unit.He had flown from the far end of Russia just to spend a few days with Michael.