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title: Charging the Four Directions (四路奔打拳) — Seven Star Mantis
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**四路奔打拳 (Sìlù Bēndǎ Quán, "Charging the Four Directions")** is one of the longest Seven Star core forms — **59 postures** in the canon of [**Wong Hon Fan (黃漢勛)**](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/wong-hon-fan), Luo Guangyu line. The name is the strategy: 四路 ("four roads / four directions") + 奔打 ("charging-and-striking") — the form drives outward along the four compass lines, wheeling and turning at each corner (旋轉, 轉身, 翻身) to charge afresh into a new direction with the branch's chopping, governing, and crushing methods.

## 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 | 四平雙蓄勢 | Level Double-Storing Stance |
| 2 | 跨虎開門式 | Riding-the-Tiger Opening Gate Posture |
| 3 | 跟步左上刁 | Heel Step Left Upper Hooking |
| 4 | 右影左踢腿 | Right Shadow Left Snapping Kick |
| 5 | 登山左疊肘 | Mountain-Climbing Left Stacked Elbow |
| 6 | 引針右腰斬 | Threading-the-Needle Right Waist-Cut |
| 7 | 登山右封手 | Mountain-Climbing Right Sealing Hands |
| 8 | 連環雙飛腿 | Linked Ring Double Flying Leg |
| 9 | 馬式偷心勢 | Horse-Stance Heart-Stealing Stance |
| 10 | 封式右統捶 | Sealing Posture Right Governing Punch |
| 11 | 左影右踢腳 | Left Shadow Right Snapping Kick |
| 12 | 掛掌右撐腿 | Hanging Palm Right Bracing Kick |
| 13 | 馬式右劈軋 | Horse-Stance Right Chop-and-Crush |
| 14 | 提腿雙刁手 | Raised-Leg Double Hooking Hand |
| 15 | 雙封手插掌 | Double Sealing Hands Inserting Palm |
| 16 | 左影右踢腳 | Left Shadow Right Snapping Kick |
| 17 | 右影左踢腿 | Right Shadow Left Snapping Kick |
| 18 | 縱跳小旋風 | Leaping Small Spinning Wind |
| 19 | 馬式右劈軋 | Horse-Stance Right Chop-and-Crush |
| 20 | 底抽左偷心 | Under Drawing Left Heart-Stealing |
| 21 | 馬式右劈軋 | Horse-Stance Right Chop-and-Crush |
| 22 | 左影右踢腿 | Left Shadow Right Snapping Kick |
| 23 | 開門左軋腿 | Opening Gate Left Crushing Leg |
| 24 | 旋轉左上刁 | Spinning Turning Left Upper Hooking |
| 25 | 登山右上劈 | Mountain-Climbing Right Upper Chop |
| 26 | 撲腿打虎捶 | Pouncing Leg Striking Tiger Punch |
| 27 | 雙封手插掌 | Double Sealing Hands Inserting Palm |
| 28 | 底抽沖天炮 | Under Drawing Charging Sky Cannon |
| 29 | 扭步反抽捶 | Twisting-Step Reverse Drawing Punch |
| 30 | 旋轉右低劈 | Spinning Turning Right Low Chop |
| 31 | 轉身右擺蓮 | Turning Body Right Swinging Lotus |
| 32 | 登山掛統捶 | Mountain-Climbing Hanging Governing Punch |
| 33 | 登山封統捶 | Mountain-Climbing Sealing Governing Punch |
| 34 | 統捶軋腿式 | Governing Punch Crushing Leg Posture |
| 35 | 十字掛撐腿 | Cross Hanging Bracing Kick |
| 36 | 馬式右劈軋 | Horse-Stance Right Chop-and-Crush |
| 37 | 登山右劈捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Chop Punch |
| 38 | 登山右腰斬 | Mountain-Climbing Right Waist-Cut |
| 39 | 掌刁跨虎勢 | Palm Hooking Riding-the-Tiger Stance |
| 40 | 踢腿大轉身 | Snapping Kick Large Turning Body |
| 41 | 登山右屯掌 | Mountain-Climbing Right Massing Palm |
| 42 | 掌刁跨虎式 | Palm Hooking Riding-the-Tiger Posture |
| 43 | 跨虎左抽捶 | Riding-the-Tiger Left Drawing Punch |
| 44 | 左掛右統捶 | Left Hanging Right Governing Punch |
| 45 | 旋圈右劈式 | Spinning Circling Right Chop Posture |
| 46 | 底抽左偷心 | Under Drawing Left Heart-Stealing |
| 47 | 封手右撐腿 | Sealing Hands Right Bracing Kick |
| 48 | 翻身右撐腿 | Wheeling Body Right Bracing Kick |
| 49 | 登山右劈捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Chop Punch |
| 50 | 登山左劈捶 | Mountain-Climbing Left Chop Punch |
| 51 | 馬式右劈捶 | Horse-Stance Right Chop Punch |
| 52 | 刁手連環腿 | Hooking Hand Linked Ring Leg |
| 53 | 馬式左偷心 | Horse-Stance Left Heart-Stealing |
| 54 | 封手右軋腿 | Sealing Hands Right Crushing Leg |
| 55 | 馬式右劈軋 | Horse-Stance Right Chop-and-Crush |
| 56 | 縱跳掛撐腿 | Leaping Hanging Bracing Kick |
| 57 | 馬式右劈軋 | Horse-Stance Right Chop-and-Crush |
| 58 | 登山封統捶 | Mountain-Climbing Sealing Governing Punch |
| 59 | 跨虎挑統捶 | Riding-the-Tiger Lifting Governing Punch |

<Callout type="info">
  **Script and full text.** The posture-name list above is the form's skeleton, from Wong Hon Fan's manual. For the **complete move-by-move text** — Wong's explanation (說明) and application (功用) for every posture, with the original photographs — see Paul Brennan's open translation, which the wiki links rather than reproduces:
  - **Script:** Paul Brennan, [*Charging to the Four Directions*](https://brennantranslation.wordpress.com/2025/01/26/charging-to-the-four-directions/)
  - **Video:** [Seven Star 四路奔打拳 demonstration](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fRM-bhcq2U)
</Callout>

## See also

<PageRef space="notes" slug="seven-star-mantis" text="Seven Star Mantis (七星螳螂) — the branch this form belongs to" />

<PageRef space="notes" slug="mantis-forms" text="Mantis Forms — the script-and-video map of every form" />

<PageRef space="notes" slug="bung-bu-quan" text="Bung Bu (崩步拳) — the foundation form" />

## Sources

**[1]** **Wong Hon Fan (黃漢勛)**, *四路奔打拳* (Seven Star Praying Mantis, Luo Guangyu line) — the source manual for the posture sequence and its numbering.

**[2]** Paul Brennan, [*Charging to the Four Directions*](https://brennantranslation.wordpress.com/2025/01/26/charging-to-the-four-directions/) — 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.