Praying Mantis on Film — Video Index

Video for Northern Praying Mantis (螳螂拳), by branch. Mantis circulates heavily as re-uploads of uncertain provenance, so archival items are flagged. The classical masters (羅光玉 Luo Guangyu, etc.) left no motion film — the earliest moving record is their students. ⭐ = archival / named master; [demo] = modern lineage demonstration.

⭐ Archival highlights

• ⭐ 王國典, age 89 — 梅花螳螂, Yantai, 1995 Austrian-TV film — outstanding Plum-Blossom master footage

• ⭐ 趙竹溪 Zhao Zhuxi — 摩雲掌, 1989, with the master's own commands (竹溪太極螳螂)

• ⭐ 衛笑堂 Wei Xiaotang — Eight-Step Mantis, the master himself (Taiwan)

• ⭐ 黃漢勛 Wong Hon Fan family archive @pemawong4871 — incl. 1979 super-8: 插捶 · 八肘 · 黑虎交叉

七星螳螂 Seven Star (羅光玉 → 黃漢勛 line)

• 崩步 Beng Bu — 1930s 黃漢勛-era photos — archival imagery

• 七星螳螂 崩步拳 — clean walkthrough (the universal "ABC" set)

• 螳螂崩步拳 — 中國武術名拳錄

• 螳螂拳 四路奔打 (Mantis School HK)

梅花 / 太極梅花螳螂 Plum-Blossom & Taiji Plum-Blossom (Hao family / 張炳鬥)

• (王國典 1995 ⭐ above)

• 霍明鋼 — 梅花螳螂 崩步 (霍耀池 lineage)

• 張炳鬥 Zhang Bingdou — 摘要一路 teaching — deep lineage resource

• 張振遠 — 太極梅花螳螂, 中華武術展現工程 series

• 危鳳池 Wei Fengchi — 技擊要訣 (郝家 line)

六合螳螂 Six-Harmony (張詳三 / 丁子成 line)

• 蔡永煌 — 六合螳螂拳 (張詳三傳承) — deep lineage resource

• 張道錦 Zhang Daojin — 六合螳螂拳 教學系列 (9 集)

八步螳螂 Eight Step (衛笑堂 line)

• (Wei Xiaotang ⭐ above) · 衛笑堂 摘要

竹溪太極螳螂 (趙竹溪 school)

• (趙竹溪 1989 ⭐ above) · 趙竹溪 基本八大馬步 · 崩步拳 CKTCPM

See also

Praying Mantis (螳螂拳) — the style overview & branch tree

Seven Star Mantis — branch deep-dive

Eight Step Mantis — branch deep-dive

Video Library — all styles