GOLDEN DRAGON KUNG FU ACADEMY is a traditional martial art training academy, founded in 2015 by Master Srinivasan. Our academy teaches traditional chinese martial art kung-fu to students from all over India. We have several years of experience in teaching kung-fu for martial artists, beginners and everyone in between.
Mission: Our goal is to promote the kung fu and its many benefits for the people all over the world.
The term "Kung Fu", sometimes spelled "Gung Fu", originally referred to excellence in any field of study. It first appeared in the west in the nineteenth century, as multitudes of Chinese began immigrating outside their homeland.
The various styles of Kung fu are often categorized as "internal" or "external", or sometimes as "soft" or "hard". The soft, internal styles emphasis inner balance,focus,meditation and subtle uses of leverage. The hard, external styles put more emphasis on physical strength,damaging blocks and devastating attacks. Regardless of how styles are labeled, they all generally encompass in both aspects.
The most famous kung fu styles have been based on the movements of animals. The Chinese of old admired the beauty, power, grace and fluidity of various animals and sought to emulate them. They copied their movements and their fighting tactics and created some of the most beautiful and deadly martial arts the world had seen.
In Chinese, Gōngfu (功夫) is a compound of two words, combining 功 (gōng) meaning "work", "achievement", or "merit", and 夫 (fū) which is alternately treated as being a word for "man" or as a particle or nominal suffix with diverse meanings (the same character is used to write both). A literal rendering of the first interpretation would be "achievement of man", while the second is often described as "work and time/effort". Its connotation is that of an accomplishment arrived at by great effort of time and energy. In Mandarin, when two "first tone" words such as gōng and fū are combined, the second word often takes a neutral tone, in this case forming gōngfu. The word is also sometimes written as 工夫, this version often being used for more general, non-martial arts usages of the term.
In the colloquial, one can say that a person's kung fu is good in cooking, or that someone has kung fu in calligraphy; saying that a person possesses kung fu in an area implies skill in that area, which they have worked hard to develop. Someone with "bad kung fu" simply has not put enough time and effort into training, or seems to lack the motivation to do so. Kung fu is also a name used for the elaborate Fujian tea ceremony (kung fu cha).