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title: Praying Mantis on Film — Video Index
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Video for **Northern Praying Mantis (螳螂拳)**, by branch. Mantis circulates heavily as re-uploads of uncertain provenance, so archival items are flagged. The classical masters (羅光玉 Luo Guangyu, etc.) left **no motion film** — the earliest moving record is their students. ⭐ = archival / named master; [demo] = modern lineage demonstration.

## ⭐ Archival highlights

- ⭐ [王國典, age 89 — 梅花螳螂, Yantai, 1995 Austrian-TV film](https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Rb41147Tc/) — outstanding Plum-Blossom master footage
- ⭐ [趙竹溪 Zhao Zhuxi — 摩雲掌, 1989, with the master's own commands](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBjmS9ix4hQ) (竹溪太極螳螂)
- ⭐ [衛笑堂 Wei Xiaotang — Eight-Step Mantis, the master himself (Taiwan)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbaVazjedbo)
- ⭐ [黃漢勛 Wong Hon Fan family archive @pemawong4871](https://www.youtube.com/@pemawong4871) — incl. 1979 super-8: [插捶](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x87na-QzQsc) · [八肘](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FY31EQNGLk) · [黑虎交叉](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMz52akrnY0)

## 七星螳螂 Seven Star (羅光玉 → 黃漢勛 line)

- [崩步 Beng Bu — 1930s 黃漢勛-era photos](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6Bu_jOELtk) — archival imagery
- [七星螳螂 崩步拳 — clean walkthrough](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d_sXvf05QY) (the universal "ABC" set)
- [螳螂崩步拳 — 中國武術名拳錄](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXD0pNmmtx4)
- [螳螂拳 四路奔打 (Mantis School HK)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN4q7jadee0)

## 梅花 / 太極梅花螳螂 Plum-Blossom & Taiji Plum-Blossom (Hao family / 張炳鬥)

- (王國典 1995 ⭐ above)
- [霍明鋼 — 梅花螳螂 崩步](https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV13p4y1C72P/) (霍耀池 lineage)
- [張炳鬥 Zhang Bingdou — 摘要一路 teaching](https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV15x411y7Dn) — deep lineage resource
- [張振遠 — 太極梅花螳螂, 中華武術展現工程 series](https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1rx411k7tK)
- [危鳳池 Wei Fengchi — 技擊要訣](https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV19t411R7sh) (郝家 line)

## 六合螳螂 Six-Harmony (張詳三 / 丁子成 line)

- [蔡永煌 — 六合螳螂拳 (張詳三傳承)](https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1qS421P7NB) — deep lineage resource
- [張道錦 Zhang Daojin — 六合螳螂拳 教學系列 (9 集)](https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV14s411Y7SW)

## 八步螳螂 Eight Step (衛笑堂 line)

- (Wei Xiaotang ⭐ above) · [衛笑堂 摘要](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyZ2VhBrjXo)

## 竹溪太極螳螂 (趙竹溪 school)

- (趙竹溪 1989 ⭐ above) · [趙竹溪 基本八大馬步](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kdd2qomYUY) · [崩步拳 CKTCPM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ry8rD7pbVQ)

## See also

<PageRef space="notes" slug="praying-mantis" text="Praying Mantis (螳螂拳) — the style overview &amp; branch tree" />

<PageRef space="notes" slug="seven-star-mantis" text="Seven Star Mantis — branch deep-dive" />

<PageRef space="notes" slug="eight-step-mantis" text="Eight Step Mantis — branch deep-dive" />

<PageRef space="notes" slug="videos" text="Video Library — all styles" />