Flying Goose Palms (飛雁掌) — Seven Star Mantis

飛雁掌 (Fēi Yàn Zhǎng, "Flying Goose Palms") is a palm-method form of Seven Star Praying Mantis in the canon of Wong Hon Fan (黃漢勛), Luo Guangyu line. It is the **sister form to **落鷹掌 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 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.

See also

Descending Eagle Palms (落鷹掌) — the sister palm-form, with full posture list

Seven Star Mantis (七星螳螂) — the branch this form belongs to

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

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 — the open English translation of Wong's full text (in copyright; linked, not reproduced).