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title: Large Rolling Wheel (大翻車) — Eight Step Mantis
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**大翻車 (Dà Fānchē, "Large Rolling Wheel")** is the larger of the two **翻車 ("rolling-wheel")** sets in the [**Eight Step Praying Mantis**](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/eight-step-mantis) curriculum of [**Wei Xiaotang (衛笑堂)**](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/wei-xiaotang) — **32 postures** of bigger, more extended wheeling actions, threaded with the branch's named postures: 八仙過海 ("Eight Immortals cross the sea"), 脫衣摸袖 ("shed the coat, touch the sleeve"), 繡女引針 ("the embroidering maiden threads the needle"), and Wei's signature **黑虎出洞 ("black tiger emerges from the cave")**.
## What it trains
- **Large-frame 翻車 wheeling** — extended versions of the rolling chop
- **Named-posture vocabulary** — the poetic image-postures that recur through 摘要
- **黑虎出洞** — Wei's signature technique appears here (posture 28) as well as in 摘要一段
- **Closing** — 偷手三捶, 回身撩陰掌, 摟手窩肚捶, 雙封手
## Full posture script — 32 postures
The posture-name list as set down in the **松傳古藝武術學苑** 拳譜 (the 林松賢 / 左顯富 line, direct Wei Xiaotang disciples), reproduced under fair-use citation; the English are the wiki's own working glosses. Eight Step movement names are longer and more *descriptive* than the tight four-character Seven Star style.
| # | 中文 | Working gloss |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 捕蟬勢 | Catching-the-cicada posture |
| 2 | 採手進步雙捶 | Seizing hand, advancing, double punch |
| 3 | 採手劈砸 | Seizing hand, chopping smash |
| 4 | 雙起仆腿 | Double-rising pouncing leg |
| 5 | 大翻車 | Large rolling wheel |
| 6 | 翻天劈地撩陰掌 | Overturn heaven, split the earth, rising groin palm |
| 7 | 白鶴展翅五行掌 | White crane spreads wings, five-element palm |
| 8 | 挑手搜襠腳 | Lifting hand, groin-seeking kick |
| 9 | 落腳採手劈砸 | Dropping the foot, seizing hand, chopping smash |
| 10 | 摟手崩捶 | Scooping hand, avalanche punch |
| 11 | 轉身崩捶 | Turning the body, avalanche punch |
| 12 | 上步劈砸 | Advancing step, chopping smash |
| 13 | 一帶二起 | First-and-second rising kick |
| 14 | 雙龍入海 | Twin dragons enter the sea |
| 15 | 摟手圈捶 | Scooping hand, circling punch |
| 16 | 雙捋手 | Double rollback hands |
| 17 | 進步雙幫 | Advancing, double bracing hands |
| 18 | 採手圈捶崩捶劈砸 | Seizing hand, circling punch, avalanche punch, chopping smash |
| 19 | 墊步雙挫捶 | Skip-step, double grinding punch |
| 20 | 轉身摟手八仙過海 | Turn body, scoop hand, Eight Immortals cross the sea |
| 21 | 摟手崩捶 | Scooping hand, avalanche punch |
| 22 | 墊步吹燈 | Skip-step, "blow out the lamp" palm |
| 23 | 採手圈捶崩捶 | Seizing hand, circling punch, avalanche punch |
| 24 | 轉身脫衣摸袖 | Turning the body, shed the coat, touch the sleeve |
| 25 | 繡女引針 | Embroidering maiden threads the needle |
| 26 | 採手劈砸 | Seizing hand, chopping smash |
| 27 | 進步轆轤 | Advancing, windlass |
| 28 | 黑虎出洞 | Black tiger emerges from the cave |
| 29 | 偷手三捶 | Stealing hand, three punches |
| 30 | 回身撩陰掌 | Turning back, rising groin palm |
| 31 | 摟手窩肚捶 | Scooping hand, belly punch |
| 32 | 雙封手 | Double sealing hand |
## Place in the curriculum
The companion to 小翻車, trained after it. **Note:** distinct from the **Seven Star** 大翻車 / 大番車 — Wong Hon Fan's 51-posture "Big Water Wheel" ([separate page](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/large-wheeling)); the two share a name but are different forms in different lineages.
## Videos
- [[八步螳螂拳] 大翻車、摘要一段 (Alex Tsuo)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naYx1TlLpAA) — contains the 大翻車 set
## See also
## Sources
**[1]** 衛笑堂 Wei Xiaotang, *實用螳螂拳* series (1968 / 續集 1972 / 秘笈 1977; Yiwen 逸文 reprints) — the in-copyright primary published source for the Eight Step curriculum; cited, not reproduced.
**[2]** **松傳古藝武術學苑** (suntrans88.blogspot.com) — the 拳譜 posted by the **林松賢 / 左顯富** line (direct Wei Xiaotang disciples). The bare posture-name list is reproduced under fair-use citation; the English are the wiki's own working glosses. Source post: [http://suntrans88.blogspot.com/2016/11/blog-post\_88.html](http://suntrans88.blogspot.com/2016/11/blog-post_88.html).