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Pai An (拍按 / 燕青破手) — Eight Step Mantis
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拍按 (Pāi'àn, "Crashing Press") — nicknamed 燕青破手 ("Yan Qing's counter-hand") — is the two-person application set of the Eight Step Praying Mantis curriculum of Wei Xiaotang (衛笑堂). It is the curriculum's capstone: where the solo forms (七手, 力劈, 翻車, 摘要) bank the vocabulary, 拍按 pressure-tests it against a partner. Two players — 甲 (A) and 乙 (B) — trade a fixed sequence of attack-and-counter; the set then loops back ("接第三勢反覆練習" — repeat from posture 3), and a separate kicking branch (加腿法) extends it into kicking range. The name is the defensive shape it drills: 拍 (a crashing slap-down) and 按 (a press).
The paired set — 甲 (A) initiates, 乙 (B) responds
The two-person 拳譜 from the 松傳 / 左顯富 lineage (direct Wei disciples), reproduced under fair-use citation; English are the wiki's own working glosses. After posture 11 the set returns to posture 3 and repeats.
# | 甲 (A) | A — gloss | 乙 (B) | B — gloss |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 預備勢，避擊手 | Ready posture; evading-strike hand | 預備勢，避擊手 | Ready posture; evading-strike hand |
2 | 帶步挫捶 | Carrying step, grinding punch | 翻手招架 | Turning the hand, parrying |
3 | 漏手反背掌 | Leaking hand, back-of-hand palm | 左推掌 | Left, pushing palm |
4 | 掛手捅掌 | Hanging hand, thrusting palm | 擊面摟手 | Strike the face, scoop hand |
5 | 摟手插捶 | Scooping hand, inserting punch | 摟手插捶 | Scooping hand, inserting punch |
6 | 掛手反背掌 | Hanging hand, back-of-hand palm | 摟手圈捶 | Scooping hand, circling punch |
7 | 轆轤插捶 | Windlass, inserting punch | 推手挫捶 | Pushing hand, grinding punch |
8 | 推肘圈捶 | Pushing elbow, circling punch | 摟手頂肘；掛手反背掌 | Scooping hand, butting elbow; hanging hand, back-of-hand palm |
9 | 勾手摟扣挫捶 | Hooking hand, scoop-and-lock, grinding punch | 架手退步 | Blocking hand, retreating step |
10 | 扣手挫捶 | Hooking-locking hand, grinding punch | 架手 | Blocking hand |
11 | 上步掛手反背掌 | Advancing step, hanging hand, back-of-hand palm | 退步圈捶 | Retreating step, circling punch |
The kicking branch (加腿法)
From posture 9, the set can divert into a kicking exchange before looping back to posture 3:
# | 甲 (A) | A — gloss | 乙 (B) | B — gloss |
|---|---|---|---|---|
9-1 | 勾手挫捶撩陰腳 | Hooking hand, grinding punch, rising groin kick | 撤步拍腳 | Withdrawing step, slapping kick |
10-1 | 墊步前掃蹚 | Skip-step, forward sweeping leg | 提腳旋風腳 | Raising the foot, whirlwind kick |
11-1 | 起身擺蓮腳 | Rising up, lotus-swinging kick | 彎腰伏低 | Bend the waist, crouch low |
12-1 | 起身圈捶 | Rising up, circling punch | 掛手反背掌 | Hanging hand, back-of-hand palm |
What it trains
Live timing and distance — the techniques of the solo forms applied against a resisting, countering partner
拍 and 按 — the crashing slap-down and the press, the defensive shapes the set is named for
燕青破手 counters — the "Yan Qing's counter-hand" answers to common attacks (招架 parry, 摟手 scoop, 架手 block, 退步 retreat)
Kicking range (加腿法) — the optional branch into 撩陰腳, 旋風腳, 擺蓮腳, and the low sweeping leg
Place in the curriculum
The two-person capstone, trained after the solo sets — per Wei's senior disciple 左顯富, the order is 七手 → 力劈 → 小翻車 → 大翻車 → 摘要 (六段) → 拍按對打.
Videos
八步螳螂拳 拍按對打 (鄭榮貴 / 八步功夫學苑) — full two-person demonstration
See also
八步螳螂 Eight Step Mantis — the branch and full curriculum
摘要一段 Zhai Yao Section 1 — the signature solo form
Wei Xiaotang (衛笑堂) — the Eight Step disseminator
Mantis Forms — the script-and-video map of every form
Sources
[1] 衛笑堂 Wei Xiaotang, 實用螳螂拳 series (Yiwen 逸文 reprints) — the in-copyright primary published source; cited, not reproduced.
[2] 松傳古藝武術學苑 (suntrans88.blogspot.com) — the 拍按對 拳譜 posted by the 林松賢 / 左顯富 line (direct Wei disciples), reproduced under fair-use citation with the wiki's own glosses. Source post: http://suntrans88.blogspot.com/2016/11/blog-post_13.html. The 燕青破手 alternate name is confirmed by the 鄭榮貴 video title.
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