Translating the video title using Google says the style is Secret Door Praying Mantis
C.J.W. wrote:This particular style (a.k.a. closed door praying mantis) was brought over to southern Taiwan by Master Zhang Dekui from Shandong. As the name suggest, it's a secretive style taught behind closed doors with techniques specifically designed to counter those found in other mantis systems. Very interesting and quite different from your typical mantis in terms of frame and power generation.
Bao wrote:Looks fun. Counter strategies are fun to practice as it makes you think more about what you do and why. Quite a few southern styles have "secret" counter-the own-style-forms and methods. Wing Chun has one form that use a lot of horizontal slicing kind of movements that was supposedly to be kept by the instructors to have an advantage over the students. Don't remember the name of it though.
C.J.W. wrote:This was shot during a mantis boxing conference back in 2013. The master who demonstrates applications on his student from 4:40 to 7:00, Shi Zhengzhong, is a secret-door mantis practitioner. There are some interesting close-range trapping/locking/throwing moves that you don't typically see in other styles of northern mantis, such as the techniques shown at 6:04 and 6:37.
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