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Large Wheeling (大翻車) — Seven Star Mantis
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大翻車 (Dà Fānchē, "Large Wheeling" — also written 大番車, and nicknamed the "Big Water Wheel") is a 51-posture core empty-hand form of Seven Star Praying Mantis, from the canon of Wong Hon Fan (黃漢勛), Luo Guangyu line. The name is the image: the body wheels like a great water-wheel (翻車) — the form revolves the big rolling, chopping, and "windlass" actions around the centre, repeating its core engine (登山大番車 → 雙封手統捶 → 登山右劈捶 → 馬式偷心捶) through changing facings. It is the larger half of a pair with the rare 小翻車 ("Small Water Wheel").
The form — move-by-move (拳譜)
The posture sequence as numbered in Wong Hon Fan's manual (第一式 … ), each Chinese name with a plain English gloss:
# | 式 (中文) | English |
|---|---|---|
1 | 中平雙提肘 | Mid Level Double Raised Elbow |
2 | 中平雙墜捶 | Mid Level Double Dropping Punch |
3 | 撇捶右單鞭 | Flinging Punch Right Single Whip |
4 | 登山大番車 | Mountain-Climbing Large Wheeling |
5 | 登山大番車 | Mountain-Climbing Large Wheeling |
6 | 登山大番車 | Mountain-Climbing Large Wheeling |
7 | 三撤轆轆捶 | Three Withdrawing Windlass Punch |
8 | 雙封手統捶 | Double Sealing Hands Governing Punch |
9 | 登山右劈捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Chop Punch |
10 | 登山左劈捶 | Mountain-Climbing Left Chop Punch |
11 | 登山右直統 | Mountain-Climbing Right Straight Governing Punch |
12 | 馬式偷心捶 | Horse-Stance Heart-Stealing Punch |
13 | 登山左劈捶 | Mountain-Climbing Left Chop Punch |
14 | 登山右劈捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Chop Punch |
15 | 登山左直統 | Mountain-Climbing Left Straight Governing Punch |
16 | 馬式偷心捶 | Horse-Stance Heart-Stealing Punch |
17 | 登山右劈捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Chop Punch |
18 | 登山左直統 | Mountain-Climbing Left Straight Governing Punch |
19 | 馬式偷心捶 | Horse-Stance Heart-Stealing Punch |
20 | 三撤轆轆捶 | Three Withdrawing Windlass Punch |
21 | 轉身反抽捶 | Turning Body Reverse Drawing Punch |
22 | 右抽左衝捶 | Right Drawing Left Charging Punch |
23 | 登山右單鞭 | Mountain-Climbing Right Single Whip |
24 | 登山大番車 | Mountain-Climbing Large Wheeling |
25 | 雙封手統捶 | Double Sealing Hands Governing Punch |
26 | 登山右劈捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Chop Punch |
27 | 登山左直統 | Mountain-Climbing Left Straight Governing Punch |
28 | 馬式偷心捶 | Horse-Stance Heart-Stealing Punch |
29 | 撇捶右單鞭 | Flinging Punch Right Single Whip |
30 | 登山大番車 | Mountain-Climbing Large Wheeling |
31 | 雙封手統捶 | Double Sealing Hands Governing Punch |
32 | 登山右劈捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Chop Punch |
33 | 登山左直統 | Mountain-Climbing Left Straight Governing Punch |
34 | 馬式偷心捶 | Horse-Stance Heart-Stealing Punch |
35 | 轉身反抽捶 | Turning Body Reverse Drawing Punch |
36 | 撲腿低捕蟬 | Pouncing Leg Low Catching Cicada |
37 | 竄跳囘身式 | Darting Leaping Returning Body Posture |
38 | 登山右劈捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Chop Punch |
39 | 登山左直統 | Mountain-Climbing Left Straight Governing Punch |
40 | 馬式偷心捶 | Horse-Stance Heart-Stealing Punch |
41 | 登山右崩捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Avalanche Punch |
42 | 右閉門腿法 | Right Closing-the-Door Kick |
43 | 跨虎雙輾捶 | Riding-the-Tiger Double Grinding Punch |
44 | 提腿左圈捶 | Raised-Leg Left Circling Punch |
45 | 封手右直統 | Sealing Hands Right Straight Governing Punch |
46 | 統捶十字腿 | Governing Punch Cross Leg |
47 | 馬式右劈軋 | Horse-Stance Right Chop-and-Crush |
48 | 十字左統捶 | Cross Left Governing Punch |
49 | 跨虎左單鞭 | Riding-the-Tiger Left Single Whip |
50 | 中平雙提肘 | Mid Level Double Raised Elbow |
51 | 中平雙墜捶 | Mid Level Double Dropping Punch |
See also
Seven Star Mantis (七星螳螂) — the branch this form 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), 大翻車 (Seven Star Praying Mantis, Luo Guangyu line) — the source manual for the posture sequence and its numbering.
[2] Paul Brennan, Large Wheeling — the open English translation of Wong's full text (in copyright; linked, not reproduced). The posture-name list here is given under fair-use citation with the wiki's own glosses.
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