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title: Flying Goose Palms (飛雁掌) — Seven Star Mantis
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**飛雁掌 (Fēi Yàn Zhǎng, "Flying Goose Palms")** is a **palm-method form** of [**Seven Star Praying Mantis**](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/seven-star-mantis) in the canon of [**Wong Hon Fan (黃漢勛)**](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/wong-hon-fan), Luo Guangyu line. It is the **sister form to **[**落鷹掌 Descending Eagle Palms**](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/descending-eagle-palms) — where the eagle *stoops*, the goose *flies* — and like its sibling it leads with the open palm (spreading, arcing, and deflecting palms) rather than the fist.

## A note on this form's script

Unlike the other Seven Star forms documented here, **Wong Hon Fan does not set Flying Goose Palms down as a fresh, self-contained list of numbered postures.** He writes it largely *by cross-reference* to forms the student already knows — its opening is "the same as in the first technique of **Plum Blossom Fists**," its travel "the same as in the beginning of the [**Charging Punches**](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/cha-chui-quan) set," and several of its postures are noted as identical to specific counts of its siblings. Because there is no standalone posture-name 拳譜 to reproduce, the wiki does **not** publish an invented sequence here; the authentic move-by-move text is best read in full from Brennan's translation below.

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  **Script and full text.** For the **complete move-by-move instructions** — Wong's explanation (說明) and the original photographs, including the cross-references to Plum Blossom Fists, Charging Punches, and Descending Eagle Palms — see Paul Brennan's open translation:
  - **Script:** Paul Brennan, [*Flying Goose Palms*](https://brennantranslation.wordpress.com/2022/01/26/flying-goose-palms/)
  - **Video:** none lineage-credible located yet (see the [Mantis Video index](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/mantis-video)).
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## See also

<PageRef space="notes" slug="descending-eagle-palms" text="Descending Eagle Palms (落鷹掌) — the sister palm-form, with full posture list" />

<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)**, *飛雁掌* (Seven Star Praying Mantis, Luo Guangyu line) — the source manual; the form is documented there by cross-reference to its sibling sets rather than as an independent posture list.

**[2]** Paul Brennan, [*Flying Goose Palms*](https://brennantranslation.wordpress.com/2022/01/26/flying-goose-palms/) — the open English translation of Wong's full text (in copyright; linked, not reproduced).