Praying Mantis Fist Stances

Mantis Fist stances are as follows:

Mantis Fist sets are many, there is a shepherd boy pointing out the way, the white ape steals peaches, avalanche step, intercept, plum blossom sugar storage cart, hook method, mantis pounces on cicadas, praying mantis, praying mantis spreads its wings, praying mantis line, eight elbows, summary of the one to seven sets of instruments have praying mantis knife. Guns, swords, sticks, etc., and their techniques are palm, hook, claw, fist, finger five. Manipulation is summarized in twelve words, that is, take the closed, sticky sticky help stick, to call the smooth send, flexible and changeable movements, very alert, in and out of the free, God has a shape.

The Mantis Fist has the most explosive force and inch strength. Various kinds of strength method is complete, leg method and foot method have bomb stirrup sweep hanging, copy kick swing kick. As well as anti-tip foot, axe blade foot and teasing foot, pestle foot. Buckle heart foot and so on. Especially prominent elbow, set of four sets of eight elbow, its elbow method has sticky elbow, stacked elbow, pier elbow, elbow. Top elbow, turn the elbow, elbow, towards the sky elbow, set off the elbow and so on.

Introduction of Mantis Fist

Mantis Fist in the hundreds of years, through successive generations of martial artists to summarize the refinement, innovation and development, and gradually formed a short and long, rigid and flexible, courageous and fast, practical and strong characteristics of the style, the main Taiji Mantis, Plum Blossom Mantis, the seven star Mantis, six Mantis, small frame Mantis and other styles. Among them, Taiji Praying Mantis, Plum Blossom Praying Mantis and Small Frame Praying Mantis are more popular in Qixia.

Late Ming and early Qing Dynasty, Wang Lang (Shandong Qixia Yu Qi) failed in martial arts, a chance to see the mantis catching cicadas dexterous and fierce situation, compiled some boxing attack and defense combinations to practice, and in the process of visiting friends and practicing martial arts and constantly summarize the experience, learn from the heart, learn from the strengths of the shortcomings of the enrichment and improvement of the results already achieved, so as to create the early stage of the Mantis Boxing; the middle of the nineteenth century, Qixia's In the middle of the 19th century, Qixia's Mantis Boxing entered into a prosperous period, and a group of Mantis Boxing masters appeared.