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title: Continuous Boxing (連拳) — Seven Star Mantis
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**連拳 (Lián Quán, "Continuous Boxing")** is a **31-posture** empty-hand form of [**Seven Star Praying Mantis**](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/seven-star-mantis), published by [**Wong Hon Fan (黃漢勛)**](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/wong-hon-fan) in **1972**, Luo Guangyu line. As its name says, the set drills **unbroken linking (連)** — chaining the branch's hooking, ramming, and filling-punch combinations into a single continuous flow with no pause to reset.

## 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 | 中平雙蓄勢 | Mid-Level Double-Storing Stance |
| 2 | 登山左挫捶 | Mountain-Climbing Left Grinding Punch |
| 3 | 吞塌低捕蟬 | Swallowing Press Low Catching Cicada |
| 4 | 入環左鎖喉 | Entering-the-Ring Left Throat-Lock |
| 5 | 入環左滾膀 | Entering-the-Ring Left Rolling Forearm |
| 6 | 登山右挫捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Grinding Punch |
| 7 | 吞塌低捕蟬 | Swallowing Press Low Catching Cicada |
| 8 | 入環右鎖喉 | Entering-the-Ring Right Throat-Lock |
| 9 | 入環右滾膀 | Entering-the-Ring Right Rolling Forearm |
| 10 | 右劈左軋腳 | Right Chop Left Crushing Kick |
| 11 | 登山左統捶 | Mountain-Climbing Left Governing Punch |
| 12 | 吞塌右補捶 | Swallowing Press Right Filling Punch |
| 13 | 轉身右撇掌 | Turning Body Right Flinging Palm |
| 14 | 轉身右撇掌 | Turning Body Right Flinging Palm |
| 15 | 轉身右撇掌 | Turning Body Right Flinging Palm |
| 16 | 扭步前後爪 | Twisting-Step Front-and-Back Claw |
| 17 | 入環雙屯掌 | Entering-the-Ring Double Massing Palm |
| 18 | 登山左揷掌 | Mountain-Climbing Left Inserting Palm |
| 19 | 登山右補捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Filling Punch |
| 20 | 登山右挫捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Grinding Punch |
| 21 | 入環窩肚捶 | Entering-the-Ring Belly Punch |
| 22 | 登山掛統捶 | Mountain-Climbing Hanging Governing Punch |
| 23 | 登山右劈軋 | Mountain-Climbing Right Chop-and-Crush |
| 24 | 登山右挫捶 | Mountain-Climbing Right Grinding Punch |
| 25 | 吞塌低捕蟬 | Swallowing Press Low Catching Cicada |
| 26 | 入環右鎖喉 | Entering-the-Ring Right Throat-Lock |
| 27 | 入環右滾膀 | Entering-the-Ring Right Rolling Forearm |
| 28 | 右劈左軋腳 | Right Chop Left Crushing Kick |
| 29 | 登山左統捶 | Mountain-Climbing Left Governing Punch |
| 30 | 馬式右補捶 | Horse-Stance Right Filling Punch |
| 31 | 跨虎左崩捶 | Riding-the-Tiger Left Avalanche 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, [*Continuous Boxing*](https://brennantranslation.wordpress.com/2024/05/25/continuous-boxing/)
  - **Video:** none lineage-credible located yet (see the [Mantis Video index](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/mantis-video)).
</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)**, *連拳* (Seven Star Praying Mantis, Luo Guangyu line; 1972) — the source manual for the posture sequence and its numbering.

**[2]** Paul Brennan, [*Continuous Boxing*](https://brennantranslation.wordpress.com/2024/05/25/continuous-boxing/) — 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.