The Ukrainian karateka Volodymyr Pylat (Володимир Пилат) wished that a domestic Ukrainian martial art existed, so modified the folk dance Hopak and got a modified folk dance, not a martial art. Some Russians also wished that they would have a domestic Russian martial art. So they invented the “traditional” Russian “martial art” Systema. It has many different styles and a common founding myth. It shall have been developed by the Biblical king David to enable his troops to defeat the Philistines. While the martial art was forgotten in its area of origin, it was by early Jewish immigrants brought to Russia, where it as Systema became part of the Russian cultural heritage. Yet the different styles of Systema have nothing in common with each other. Some resemble judo and wrestling. Others are obviously derived from boxing. In again other styles of Systema some successful brawlers teach how they rather intuitively and unsystematic won the one or other fight. Everything in Systema, as if designed to do so, reveals that it isn’t a tradition, but an invented “martial art”.