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Zhai Yao Section 2 (摘要二段) — Eight Step Mantis
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摘要二段 (Zhāiyào Dì-èr Duàn, "Picked Essentials, Section 2") continues the Eight Step signature curriculum of Wei Xiaotang (衛笑堂) — 42 postures, opening with 白虎探爪 ("white tiger probes with claws") and running through the branch's richest store of named image-postures: 霸王拉弓, 青龍擺尾, 魁星點斗, 黑虎出洞, and closing on 白蛇攔路.
What it trains
The image-posture vocabulary — 白虎探爪, 霸王拉弓 ("the Tyrant draws the bow"), 青龍擺尾 ("green dragon swings its tail"), 魁星點斗
Double-hand methods — 雙捋手, 雙幫手, 沉肘支捶
Kicking — 閉門腳, 斧刃腳 ("axe-blade kick"), 撩陰腳, 蹬塌勢
黑虎出洞 — Wei's signature technique recurs here as posture 37
Full posture script — 42 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.
# | 中文 | Working gloss |
|---|---|---|
1 | 白虎探爪 | White tiger probes with claws |
2 | 採手劈砸 | Seizing hand, chopping smash |
3 | 挑冲捶 | Lifting charging punch |
4 | 摟手圈捶 | Scooping hand, circling punch |
5 | 雙捋手 | Double rollback hands |
6 | 雙幫 | Double bracing hands |
7 | 雙捋手 | Double rollback hands |
8 | 採手圈捶、沉肘支捶 | Seizing hand, circling punch; sinking elbow, propping punch |
9 | 白虎探爪 | White tiger probes with claws |
10 | 採手圈捶、沉肘支捶 | Seizing hand, circling punch; sinking elbow, propping punch |
11 | 雙捋手 | Double rollback hands |
12 | 扒三手 | Three raking hands |
13 | 摟手崩捶 | Scooping hand, avalanche punch |
14 | 閉門腳、拔步避擊手 | Closing-door kick; uprooting step, evading-strike hand |
15 | 縱步攔捶 | Leaping step, blocking punch |
16 | 閉門腳 | Closing-door kick |
17 | 轉身斧刃腳 | Turning the body, axe-blade kick |
18 | 墊步斧刃腳 | Skip-step, axe-blade kick |
19 | 順步蹬塌勢 | Straight step, stamping-sink posture |
20 | 摟手崩捶 | Scooping hand, avalanche punch |
21 | 閉門腳、拔步避擊手 | Closing-door kick; uprooting step, evading-strike hand |
22 | 雙捋手 | Double rollback hands |
23 | 白鶴展翅五行掌 | White crane spreads wings, five-element palm |
24 | 挑手搜檔腳 | Lifting hand, groin-seeking kick |
25 | 採手劈砸 | Seizing hand, chopping smash |
26 | 摟手崩捶 | Scooping hand, avalanche punch |
27 | 轉身跨虎 | Turning the body, crossing-tiger stance |
28 | 行步採手圈捶 | Walking step, seizing hand, circling punch |
29 | 轉身八仙過海 | Turning the body, Eight Immortals cross the sea |
30 | 摟手崩捶 | Scooping hand, avalanche punch |
31 | 霸王拉弓 | The Tyrant draws the bow |
32 | 青龍擺尾 | Green dragon swings its tail |
33 | 偷步盤肘 | Stealing step, coiling elbow |
34 | 霸王捆豬 | The Tyrant binds the pig |
35 | 回身撩陰掌 | Turning back, rising groin palm |
36 | 魁星點斗 | Kuixing points at the Dipper |
37 | 黑虎出洞 | Black tiger emerges from the cave |
38 | 轉身採手迎風掌 | Turning the body, seizing hand, facing-the-wind palm |
39 | 挑手撩陰腳 | Lifting hand, rising groin kick |
40 | 落腳劈砸 | Dropping the foot, chopping smash |
41 | 摟手崩捶閉門腳 | Scooping hand, avalanche punch, closing-door kick |
42 | 拔步白蛇攔路 | Uprooting step, white snake blocks the path |
Place in the curriculum
The second of the six 摘要 sections; Wei demonstrated 一段 and 二段 together on the surviving archival film.
Videos
衛笑堂示範：摘要一段、二段 — Wei Xiaotang himself, archival (covers both sections)
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_0.html.
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