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title: First-Hand Rush (善手奔) — Six-Harmony Mantis
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**善手奔 (Xiānshǒu Bēn, "First-Hand Rush"** — written 善 / 先 / 仙 interchangeably) is the **second core sequence** of [**Six-Harmony Praying Mantis**](https://wulin.openmindspace.org/six-harmony-mantis) (張詳三 line). The name is the idea: *seize the initiative and rush in.* It opens with the cupping-joining hands (捧合手) and the thunderbolt hand (霹靂手), then drills repeated cycles of linked chopping → snapping kick → inner/outer dragging hook (連環劈 → 彈腿 → 裏外拖鈎).

## What it trains

- **先手 (seizing the initiative)** — rushing in to strike first
- **霹靂手 (thunderbolt hand)** — the sudden, percussive issuing
- **The 連環劈 → 彈腿 → 拖鈎 cycle** — the form's repeating engine
- **Inner and outer dragging hooks (裏外拖鈎)** — trapping-and-pulling the limb

## Full posture script — 37 postures

The posture-name list (善手奔 / 先手奔 / 仙手奔) from the **張詳三 (Zhang Xiangsan) → 陳威伸** Taiwan Six-Harmony lineage, as published on the lineage site **6h-mantis.org**, reproduced under fair-use citation; the English are the wiki's own working glosses. Six-Harmony movement names are descriptive and run longer than the tight four-character Seven-Star style.

| # | 中文 | Working gloss |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 捧合手 | Cupping-and-joining hands |
| 2 | 霹靂手 | Thunderbolt hand |
| 3 | 綑封 | Bind-and-seal |
| 4 | 双推 | Double, pushing |
| 5 | 採手掛腿 | Seize-hand, hang the leg |
| 6 | 叫掌 | Calling palm |
| 7 | 破骨 | Bone-breaking |
| 8 | 抺眉手 | Wipe-the-eyebrow hand |
| 9 | 左展拍 | Left, spreading slap |
| 10 | 右展拍 | Right, spreading slap |
| 11 | 勾摟捶 | Hook-and-scoop punch |
| 12 | 回身連環劈 | Turning back, linked chopping |
| 13 | 彈腿 | Snapping kick |
| 14 | 裏拖鈎 | Inner dragging hook |
| 15 | 外拖鈎 | Outer dragging hook |
| 16 | 連環劈掌 | Linked chopping, palm |
| 17 | 彈腿 | Snapping kick |
| 18 | 裏拖鈎 | Inner dragging hook |
| 19 | 外拖鈎 | Outer dragging hook |
| 20 | 回身連環劈 | Turning back, linked chopping |
| 21 | 彈腿 | Snapping kick |
| 22 | 裏拖鈎 | Inner dragging hook |
| 23 | 外拖鈎 | Outer dragging hook |
| 24 | 連環劈掌 | Linked chopping, palm |
| 25 | 彈腿 | Snapping kick |
| 26 | 裏拖鈎 | Inner dragging hook |
| 27 | 挫步外拖鈎 | Grinding, step, outer dragging hook |
| 28 | 轉身圈捶 | Turning the body, circling punch |
| 29 | 右展拍 | Right, spreading slap |
| 30 | 勾摟捶 | Hook-and-scoop punch |
| 31 | 回身撩陰連環劈 | Turning back, rising-groin linked chop |
| 32 | 劈封 | Chop-and-seal |
| 33 | 綑封 | Bind-and-seal |
| 34 | 劈封 | Chop-and-seal |
| 35 | 進步跺腳 | Advancing, stamping foot |
| 36 | 破膝 | Break the knee |
| 37 | 掛耳圈 | Hook-the-ear circle |

## Place in the curriculum

The 張詳三 Taiwan line teaches its empty-hand art as **six core sequences (六趟)** — 鐵齒 · 善手奔 · 鏡裡藏花 · 截手圈 · 葉底藏花 · 雙封 — alongside **六合短捶** and **六合拳**. This is the second of the six. All six core sequences share the same closing run: **進步跺腳 → 破膝 → 掛耳圈**.

## Videos

- [Six-Harmony Mantis demonstration (善手奔)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqfXuFqfUpk) — from the 張詳三-line lineage archive (6h-mantis.org / YouTube)

## See also

<PageRef space="notes" slug="six-harmony-mantis" text="六合螳螂 Six-Harmony Mantis — the branch, lineage, and character" />

<PageRef space="notes" slug="praying-mantis" text="Praying Mantis (螳螂拳) — the parent system and branch tree" />

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

## Sources

**[1]** The **張詳三 (Zhang Xiangsan) → 陳威伸** Taiwan Six-Harmony Mantis lineage, via the lineage site **6h-mantis.org** — the published posture list (善手奔 / 先手奔 / 仙手奔), reproduced as a bare name-list under fair-use citation with the wiki's own glosses. Lineage: 魏德林 → 林世春 → 丁子成 → 張詳三.

**[2]** *六合螳螂拳*, Chinese Wikipedia, and 徐紀 (Adam Hsu), *六合螳螂拳法述略* — for the branch's form inventory and "hidden-hard" (暗剛) character.