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title: Nine-Section Ground Whip (九節地躺鞭) — Seven Star Mantis
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**九節地躺鞭 (Jiǔjié Dìtǎng Biān, "Nine-Section Ground-Rolling Whip")** is the **soft-weapon ground-fighting form** of the Seven Star Praying Mantis weapons curriculum, in the canon of [**Wong Hon Fan (黃漢勛)**](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/wong-hon-fan). It joins two demanding specialties: the **九節鞭 (nine-section whip)** — a chain of nine linked metal rods, the hardest class of flexible weapon to control — and **地躺 / 滾膛 (ground-rolling)**, the tumbling, dropping, and floor-fighting method. It is the whip-wielding cousin of the branch's [Drunken Groundwork Saber](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/drunken-groundwork-saber).

## What it trains

- **Flexible-weapon control** — the nine-section whip has no rigid line; it is driven by circles, figure-eights, and body-wraps (金龍盤柱, "golden dragon coils the pillar"), and re-aimed by the whole body rather than the wrist
- **Ground-rolling (地躺 / 滾膛)** — the form deliberately drops, sprawls, and rolls (地膛輾腿, 滾膛鞭法), striking and sweeping from the floor — a rare skill set that turns a fall into an attack
- **Whip-to-leg coordination** — the whip's wraps are paired with crushing and grinding leg techniques (橫鞭軋腿, 地膛輾腿)
- **Recovery and re-launch** — tiger images (白虎跳澗 "white tiger leaps the ravine," 猛虎翻身 "fierce tiger turns its body") mark the explosive returns from ground to standing

## Full posture script — 34 postures

The bare posture-name list from Wong Hon Fan's *九節地躺鞭*, reproduced under fair-use citation; English are the wiki's own working glosses. The long runs of one name (金龍盤柱 ×6, 肘底藏花 ×6) are the repeated circling and wrapping counts characteristic of a flexible weapon.

| # | 中文 | Working gloss |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 橫鞭勒馬 | Horizontal whip, reining the horse |
| 2 | 白虎跳澗 | White tiger leaps the ravine |
| 3 | 隨風逐浪 | Following the wind, chasing the waves |
| 4 | 金龍盤柱 | Golden dragon coils the pillar |
| 5 | 金龍盤柱 | Golden dragon coils the pillar |
| 6 | 金龍盤柱 | Golden dragon coils the pillar |
| 7 | 金龍盤柱 | Golden dragon coils the pillar |
| 8 | 金龍盤柱 | Golden dragon coils the pillar |
| 9 | 金龍盤柱 | Golden dragon coils the pillar |
| 10 | 肘底藏花 | Hiding flowers beneath the elbow |
| 11 | 肘底藏花 | Hiding flowers beneath the elbow |
| 12 | 肘底藏花 | Hiding flowers beneath the elbow |
| 13 | 肘底藏花 | Hiding flowers beneath the elbow |
| 14 | 肘底藏花 | Hiding flowers beneath the elbow |
| 15 | 肘底藏花 | Hiding flowers beneath the elbow |
| 16 | 猛虎囬頭 | Fierce tiger turns its head |
| 17 | 雪花吐艷 | Snowflakes spitting splendour |
| 18 | 雪花吐艷 | Snowflakes spitting splendour |
| 19 | 雪花吐艷 | Snowflakes spitting splendour |
| 20 | 餓虎攔路 | Hungry tiger blocks the path |
| 21 | 隨風逐浪 | Following the wind, chasing the waves |
| 22 | 橫鞭軋腿 | Horizontal whip, crushing leg |
| 23 | 地膛輾腿 | Ground-sprawl, grinding leg-sweep |
| 24 | 猛虎翻身 | Fierce tiger turns its body |
| 25 | 猛虎翻身 | Fierce tiger turns its body |
| 26 | 隨風逐浪 | Following the wind, chasing the waves |
| 27 | 滾膛鞭法 | Rolling-on-the-ground whip method |
| 28 | 滾膛鞭法 | Rolling-on-the-ground whip method |
| 29 | 滾膛鞭法 | Rolling-on-the-ground whip method |
| 30 | 白虎跳澗 | White tiger leaps the ravine |
| 31 | 隨風逐浪 | Following the wind, chasing the waves |
| 32 | 白虎跳澗 | White tiger leaps the ravine |
| 33 | 一字開鞭 | Straight-line opening of the whip |
| 34 | 返樸𡚖真 | Returning to the plain, reverting to the true (closing) |

## Place in the curriculum

An advanced, late-curriculum specialty — the flexible weapon is taught only once the body method and rigid weapons are secure, and the ground-rolling demands the conditioning the empty-hand sets build. It pairs thematically with the **醉酒地躺單刀 (Drunken Groundwork Saber)** as the branch's two **地躺 (ground-fighting)** forms.

## Open English translation

- **Paul Brennan, "Nine-Section Whip" (2024)** — full bilingual translation with the original photographs: [brennantranslation.wordpress.com](https://brennantranslation.wordpress.com/2024/01/26/nine-section-whip/).

## See also

<PageRef space="notes" slug="seven-star-mantis" text="七星螳螂 Seven Star Mantis — branch context" />

<PageRef space="notes" slug="mantis-forms" text="Mantis Forms — the script-and-video map of every form" />

<PageRef space="notes" slug="drunken-groundwork-saber" text="醉酒地躺單刀 Drunken Groundwork Saber — the branch's other ground-fighting form" />

<PageRef space="notes" slug="mantis-canon-english-translations" text="Mantis Canon — full Brennan index including all the weapons forms" />

## Sources

**[1]** Wong Hon Fan, *九節地躺鞭* — the published manual; the posture script above is the bare form-name list reproduced under fair-use citation, with the wiki's own glosses.

**[2]** Paul Brennan (tr.), *"Nine-Section Whip" / 九節地躺鞭* (2024) — open-access English: [brennantranslation.wordpress.com](https://brennantranslation.wordpress.com/2024/01/26/nine-section-whip/). The 34-posture sequence follows Brennan's edition.