First-Hand Rush (善手奔) — Six-Harmony Mantis

善手奔 (Xiānshǒu Bēn, "First-Hand Rush" — written 善 / 先 / 仙 interchangeably) is the second core sequence of Six-Harmony Praying Mantis (張詳三 line). The name is the idea: seize the initiative and rush in. It opens with the cupping-joining hands (捧合手) and the thunderbolt hand (霹靂手), then drills repeated cycles of linked chopping → snapping kick → inner/outer dragging hook (連環劈 → 彈腿 → 裏外拖鈎).

What it trains

• 先手 (seizing the initiative) — rushing in to strike first

• 霹靂手 (thunderbolt hand) — the sudden, percussive issuing

• The 連環劈 → 彈腿 → 拖鈎 cycle — the form's repeating engine

• Inner and outer dragging hooks (裏外拖鈎) — trapping-and-pulling the limb

Full posture script — 37 postures

The posture-name list (善手奔 / 先手奔 / 仙手奔) from the 張詳三 (Zhang Xiangsan) → 陳威伸 Taiwan Six-Harmony lineage, as published on the lineage site 6h-mantis.org, reproduced under fair-use citation; the English are the wiki's own working glosses. Six-Harmony movement names are descriptive and run longer than the tight four-character Seven-Star style.

Place in the curriculum

The 張詳三 Taiwan line teaches its empty-hand art as six core sequences (六趟) — 鐵齒 · 善手奔 · 鏡裡藏花 · 截手圈 · 葉底藏花 · 雙封 — alongside 六合短捶 and 六合拳. This is the second of the six. All six core sequences share the same closing run: 進步跺腳 → 破膝 → 掛耳圈.

Videos

• Six-Harmony Mantis demonstration (善手奔) — from the 張詳三-line lineage archive (6h-mantis.org / YouTube)

See also

六合螳螂 Six-Harmony Mantis — the branch, lineage, and character

Praying Mantis (螳螂拳) — the parent system and branch tree

Mantis Forms — the script-and-video map of every form

Sources

[1] The 張詳三 (Zhang Xiangsan) → 陳威伸 Taiwan Six-Harmony Mantis lineage, via the lineage site 6h-mantis.org — the published posture list (善手奔 / 先手奔 / 仙手奔), reproduced as a bare name-list under fair-use citation with the wiki's own glosses. Lineage: 魏德林 → 林世春 → 丁子成 → 張詳三.

[2] 六合螳螂拳, Chinese Wikipedia, and 徐紀 (Adam Hsu), 六合螳螂拳法述略 — for the branch's form inventory and "hidden-hard" (暗剛) character.