頓肘，腆肘，提肘，盤肘，揰肘，胳肘，插肘，臂肘，樹門肘，挑抱肘，滾龍肘，雙腆連環肘。 Stopping Elbow, Protruding Elbow, Rising Elbow, Coiling Elbow, Thrusting Elbow, Armpit Elbow, Inserting Elbow, Arm Elbow, Plant the Door … Continue reading 螳螂拳分身十二盤肘/Tanglangquan Fen Shen Shi’er Pan Zhou – Tanglangquan Divided Body Twelve Coiling Elbows

第一鴛鴦腳，即右手外展，右側尖腳踶襠。 Number 1 Mandarin Duck Leg, that is the right hand extends to the outside, then right Side Pointing Leg … Continue reading 螳螂拳中門四絕腳/Tanglangquan Zhong Men Si Jue Jiao – Tanglangquan Center Gate Four Severing Legs

螳螂拳譜/Tanglang Quanpu – Tanglang Boxing Manual 崔寿山/Cuì Shoushan 序/Preface 叙言/Introductory Remarks 拳術十戒/The Boxing Art’s Ten Commandments 螳螂綱領/Tanglang’s Guiding Principles 螳螂之體/Tanglang’s … Continue reading 崔寿山之螳螂拳譜/Cui Shoushan’s Tanglang Quanpu: Selections from the Table of Contents

梅花太極手，寒雞步，猴勢太極手，千變萬化。寒雞步變化無窮矣。螳螂此手如蜻蜓點水，勢如蝴蝶穿花，四面旋繞，上下環轉，疊如捶山，叫人入手無路而觸處受傷。此所謂渾然一太極也。 Plum Blossom Taiji Hands, Cold Chicken Steps, Monkey Pattern Taiji Hands, have a thousand variations & ten thousand changes. … Continue reading 螳螂之體/Tanglang Zhi Ti – Tanglang’s Form

•I know I’ve posted portions of this material before, but I think it’s worth putting the longer version out there. … Continue reading 螳螂綱領/Tanglang Gangling – Tanglang’s Guiding Principles

螳螂代打，螳螂叫打，螳螂提打，螳螂捆打，螳螂拈打，螳螂拿打，螳螂截打，螳螂就打，螳螂封打，螳螂空打，螳螂閃打，螳螂閉打，螳螂緒打。 Tanglang Replacing Strike, Tanglang Calling Strike, Tanglang Raising Strike, Tanglang Bundling Strike, Tanglang Twisting Strike, Tanglang Controlling Strike, Tanglang … Continue reading 螳螂之打十三門/Tanglang Zhi Da Shi San Men – Tanglang’s Striking Thirteen Gates

螳螂七長八短–(七長為雙手，八短為雙臂，輔以步法) Tanglang’s Seven Long & Eight Short — (Seven Long use both hands, Eight Short use both arms, assisted by … Continue reading 螳螂七長八短/Tanglang Qi Chang Ba Duan – Tanglang’s Seven Long & Eight Short

泰山壓頂勢非輕，單雙臿花步須正。 Tai Shan Crushes the Top Pattern isn’t light, Single & Double Thrusting Flower must have proper steps. 番車轆轤雙合用，打上掃下不留傳。 Fanche … Continue reading 番車轆轤訣/Fanche Lulu Jue – Song of Fanche Lulu