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title: Descending Eagle Palms (落鷹掌) — Seven Star Mantis
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**落鷹掌 (Luò Yīng Zhǎng, "Descending Eagle Palms")** is a **41-posture** palm-method form of [**Seven Star Praying Mantis**](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/seven-star-mantis), from the canon of [**Wong Hon Fan (黃漢勛)**](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/wong-hon-fan), Luo Guangyu line. Built on the image of the **stooping eagle**, it leads with the *palm* rather than the fist — covering, pushing, reverse, massing, rolling, and "leaking" palms — and is the natural companion to its sibling palm-form, **飛雁掌 (Flying Goose Palms)**.
## 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 | 反覆雙蓋掌 | Repeated Double Covering Palm |
| 3 | 跨虎左挑掌 | Riding-the-Tiger Left Lifting Palm |
| 4 | 入環雙推掌 | Entering-the-Ring Double Pushing Palm |
| 5 | 入環雙推掌 | Entering-the-Ring Double Pushing Palm |
| 6 | 左撇掌揪腿 | Left Flinging Palm Seizing-Leg Sweep |
| 7 | 右撇掌揪腿 | Right Flinging Palm Seizing-Leg Sweep |
| 8 | 入環右滾膀 | Entering-the-Ring Right Rolling Forearm |
| 9 | 提腿迎面掌 | Raised-Leg Face Palm |
| 10 | 登山右反掌 | Mountain-Climbing Right Reverse Palm |
| 11 | 跨步左撇掌 | Straddle-Step Left Flinging Palm |
| 12 | 跨步右撇掌 | Straddle-Step Right Flinging Palm |
| 13 | 坐盤右屯掌 | Seated-Cross Right Massing Palm |
| 14 | 馬式左屯掌 | Horse-Stance Left Massing Palm |
| 15 | 分掌右揪腿 | Parting Palm Right Seizing-Leg Sweep |
| 16 | 入環右滾膀 | Entering-the-Ring Right Rolling Forearm |
| 17 | 左獻挑踢腿 | Left Offering-Lift Snapping Kick |
| 18 | 入環左滾膀 | Entering-the-Ring Left Rolling Forearm |
| 19 | 右入環滾掌 | Right Entering-the-Ring Rolling Palm |
| 20 | 右入環漏掌 | Right Entering-the-Ring Leaking Palm |
| 21 | 雙壓掌滾膀 | Double Pressing Palm Rolling Forearm |
| 22 | 雙壓掌滾膀 | Double Pressing Palm Rolling Forearm |
| 23 | 掠翅右踢腿 | Wing-Brushing Right Snapping Kick |
| 24 | 跨虎右挑掌 | Riding-the-Tiger Right Lifting Palm |
| 25 | 外掛手三掌 | Outer Hanging Hand Three Palm |
| 26 | 外掛手三掌 | Outer Hanging Hand Three Palm |
| 27 | 穿掌右蹬𨁏 | Threading Palm Right Stamping Kick |
| 28 | 扭步雙刁手 | Twisting-Step Double Hooking Hand |
| 29 | 入環雙屯掌 | Entering-the-Ring Double Massing Palm |
| 30 | 右崩捶撐腿 | Right Avalanche Punch Bracing Kick |
| 31 | 登山上措掌 | Mountain-Climbing Upper Grinding Palm |
| 32 | 登山下措掌 | Mountain-Climbing Lower Grinding Palm |
| 33 | 登山番車式 | Mountain-Climbing Wheeling Posture |
| 34 | 扭步左屯掌 | Twisting-Step Left Massing Palm |
| 35 | 馬式右屯掌 | Horse-Stance Right Massing Palm |
| 36 | 登山左屯掌 | Mountain-Climbing Left Massing Palm |
| 37 | 走跳右仰膀 | Leap-Step Right Upturned Forearm |
| 38 | 小番天印式 | Small Wheeling Heaven-Seal Posture |
| 39 | 登山左偷手 | Mountain-Climbing Left Stealing-Hand |
| 40 | 登山右偷手 | Mountain-Climbing Right Stealing-Hand |
| 41 | 跨虎左挑掌 | Riding-the-Tiger Left Lifting Palm |
**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, [*Descending Eagle Palms*](https://brennantranslation.wordpress.com/2022/11/11/descending-eagle-palms/)
- **Video:** none lineage-credible located yet (see the [Mantis Video index](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/mantis-video)).
## See also
## Sources
**[1]** **Wong Hon Fan (黃漢勛)**, *落鷹掌* (Seven Star Praying Mantis, Luo Guangyu line) — the source manual for the posture sequence and its numbering.
**[2]** Paul Brennan, [*Descending Eagle Palms*](https://brennantranslation.wordpress.com/2022/11/11/descending-eagle-palms/) — 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.