Large Rolling Wheel (大翻車) — Eight Step Mantis

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 curriculum of Wei Xiaotang (衛笑堂) — 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.

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); 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) — contains the 大翻車 set

See also

八步螳螂 Eight Step Mantis — the branch and full curriculum

Wei Xiaotang (衛笑堂) — the Eight Step disseminator

力劈拳 Li Pi Quan — Eight Step's Force-Chop form

Mantis Forms — the script-and-video map of every form

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.