Cours de Kung-Fu

Français

Afin de proposer des cours sortant de l’ordinaire et pour favoriser le “team-building”, le Prof. Jon Pearce a demandé à son enseignant, Sifu Steven Macramalla de donner aux étudiants de la SU un cours privé de Kung-fu pour débutant “LVL n00b”.

Sifu Steven Macramalla est l’instructeur principal de l’école Chien Lung, Six Animals Kung-Fu, à Santa Cruz. Il enseigne le style Chien Lung depuis plus de 20 ans. Il détient aussi un doctorat en psychologie cognitive, et enseigne à présent à la San Jose State University.

Pendant deux heures, nous avons eu un bref aperçu des six animaux (trois félins et trois serpents) qui inspirent les formes de ce Kung-Fu. Nous avons expérimenté chaque style à travers des exercices spécifiques. Vous pouvez en apprendre plus en allant sur leur site.

English

When Dr. Jon Pearce first mentioned about our Kung-Fu class in front of Martin Luther King library, we were ecstatic and fearful at the same.  At the start of our Kung-Fu session, our Sifu Chien Lung spent 15 minutes to give us an overview of the history behind the Six Animal Kung-Fu.  It was quite interesting to observe when Sifu Chien Lung started live demonstration of Kung-Fu moves by tiger, panther, snow leopard, cobra, python, boa.  The characteristics and behaviors of each animal were unique and purposeful to itself.

If there is anything we have learned, watching Kung-Fu is a lot easier than actually performing it.  As you can see from the pictures, we all struggled quite a bit trying to kick, spin and focus.  It was quite amusing watching the students trying their best Kung-Fu abilities.  Instead of looking like fearless warriors, we were practically hopeless.  Overall, it was quite a pleasant experience and we really enjoyed it immensely.