BIOGRAPHY OF SI GUNG GEBOL
Brief history of Si Gung Gebol, (origin, past and present)
MASTER: SI GUNG GEBOL
Nationality: Peruvian
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Benjamin Gebol Gómez (Chachapoyas, Peru, September 27), known as Si Gung
Gebol[1] or
Shīfu Gebol[2],
is a master of Chinese martial arts (Sixth Thuan Degree), a Lawyer, and a Graduate in International Relations.
Shīfu Gebol is an international figure of the martial arts, known for
being an outstanding example of kung fu and taijiquan that allowed him to be a
national and international champion.
In his career as a sportsman of senior category, he has participated in more than a dozen of international championships of wushu and tai chi chuan representing his country, and starred in countless exhibitions of martial arts worldwide that were acclaimed by critics who highlighted his mastery of the discipline, which helped him to win several international awards and two of them in the Republic of Peru granted by the Peruvian Sports Institute(IPD) through the Peruvian Federation of Wushu Kung Fu, the official body of the Peruvian State (Salon of the Americas, National stadium. Lima, September 21, 2006).
In his career as a sportsman of senior category, he has participated in more than a dozen of international championships of wushu and tai chi chuan representing his country, and starred in countless exhibitions of martial arts worldwide that were acclaimed by critics who highlighted his mastery of the discipline, which helped him to win several international awards and two of them in the Republic of Peru granted by the Peruvian Sports Institute(IPD) through the Peruvian Federation of Wushu Kung Fu, the official body of the Peruvian State (Salon of the Americas, National stadium. Lima, September 21, 2006).
BIOGRAPHY
Gebol Benjamin Gomez was born in a family linked closely to Amazonian traditional customs. His family is
from Chontapampa,
town of the Province of Chachapoyas, which is known for being the birthplace of
traditional fighters. (Chontapampa[3] is an area full of customs and traditions
that have lasted since mid-1800).
He attended the local school in Lima and Chachapoyas. At a very young
age, when he was at school Gebol discovered his qualities for martial arts,
receiving suggestions from relatives and instructors that were useful to be
involved in martial arts. After that, he learned art, philosophy and kung fu at the
Shagou Institute Zheng, and got the rank of Sifu in 1994; then in 2004, the
Peruvian Federation of Wushu Kung Fu awarded him the Degree of Si Gung, a respectable
category in the Shaolin culture. Later, he studied two careers for nine years. Then, he got his professional degree of Lawyer (July, 2015) at the Faculty of Law of the University of Palermo and he is Graduate in International Relations at
the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Palermo University (February, 2016).
Internationally
renowned personality
It was his first participation as a professional competitor in Peru
which gave him national and international notoriety in the National Wushu
Championship of 1990, official event of the Peruvian Federation of Kung fu where
Sifu Gebol won the gold medal in all the
styles of Nan Quan, Chang Quan and Tai
Chi Chuan, and he also won an international championship in 1991.
In the last fifteen years, he has made significant progress in spreading
the benefits of Shaolin Kung fu and managing to establish permanent contacts
with followers and experts of martial arts around the world.
He made retirements of Compassion and awakened in the Mahayana Buddhism having visited several monastic centers in East Asia,
receiving the teachings of the Dharma by His Holiness the Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche .
Today, Sifu Gebol mantain close ties
with the Mahayana; great path of Buddhism and
the venerable P. Khenpo Tenzin
is his root Lama.
Sifu Gebol teaches in the "School Tzu Chang Quan Shaolin"
Since 1996 in Buenos Aires Argentina. In
the period 2005-6, he was a Professor of wushu and taijiquan in the Academy of
the Peruvian Federation of Wushu Kung Fu, and he is currently Director of the InternationalTiantan Association.
From his position in the ITA, he is commited to sports development and continues working for the progress of martial arts. He claimed that it
is neccesary to build a fair society where the essential values of the people
be practiced in the historical process ,
and praises the work of the Chinese Wushu Association, the International WushuFederation, including the United Nations.
E-mail: tzugebol.com@gmail.com
Lima, 29 de febrero de 2016.
[1]
Wayne Belonoha. (2009).The Wing Chun Compendium;
Vol. 2. United States of America: North Atlantic Books., p. 25.
[2]
The term Si Gung from the traditional cantonese, "master teacher" and
Sifu from the Simplified Chinese , " teacher". Recovered
from the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sifu
[3]
Chontapampa, a charming and unique town,
full of a lifestyle that people previously thought it would never be lost regardless of its destiny, The village
was deeply affected with the advent of the modernity in the year 2003 ... so that Its lifestyle was
tremendously modified and old traditions were forgotten. (The
tzugebol.com foundation plans to study them to provide help to rescue the oral culture and the
traditional heritage).
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