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Mantis Tantui (螳螂彈腿) — Seven Star Mantis
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螳螂彈腿 (Tángláng Tántuǐ, "Mantis Spring-Leg") is the foundational leg-and-line drill of Seven Star Praying Mantis in the canon of Wong Hon Fan (黃漢勛), Luo Guangyu line. Tantui ("spring-leg / snapping leg") is a foundation set shared across much of Northern boxing; the Mantis version recasts it in the branch's own vocabulary. It is organised not as one long routine but as 14 short "roads" (路) — each a there-and-back line repeated over a fixed number of sections (節) — that install the kicks, hooking hands, and stepping the empty-hand forms later recombine.
The form — the fourteen roads (拳譜)
The road sequence as set down in Wong Hon Fan's manual (第一路 … ), each Chinese name with a plain English gloss and its section-count:
# | 路 (中文) | 節 | English |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | 軋腳 | 四節 | Crushing Kick |
2 | 掛腿 | 三節 | Hanging Leg |
3 | 掛劈 | 四節 | Hanging Chop |
4 | 抅摟採手 | 四節 | Hook-Scoop-Pluck Hands |
5 | 黑虎偷心 | 四節 | Black Tiger Steals the Heart |
6 | 圈腿 | 二節 | Circling Leg |
7 | 偷手 | 四節 | Stealing Hand |
8 | 四面番車 | 四節 | Wheeling to the Four Directions |
9 | 棍手 | 兩節 | Pole Hands |
10 | 左右圈捶 | 四節 | Circling Punches, Left and Right |
11 | 金鷄鎖喉 | 四節 | Golden Rooster Locks the Throat |
12 | 採手取眼 | 四節 | Plucking Hand Seizes the Eyes |
13 | 左右低牽 | 四節 | Low Pull, Left and Right |
14 | 磨盤三手 | 四節 | Three Millstone Hands |
See also
Seven Star Mantis (七星螳螂) — the branch this drill belongs to
Mantis Forms — the script-and-video map of every form
Bung Bu (崩步拳) — the foundation form
Sources
[1] Wong Hon Fan (黃漢勛), 螳螂彈腿 (Seven Star Praying Mantis, Luo Guangyu line) — the source manual for the road sequence and its numbering.
[2] Paul Brennan, Mantis Tantui — the open English translation of Wong's full text (in copyright; linked, not reproduced). The road-name list here is given under fair-use citation with the wiki's own glosses.
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- 2026-06-08
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