Southern Mantis

Hakka Kung Fu Documentary

Short bridges, narrow stance, rounded back and concave chest, short steps, elbows close to the body – characteristic features of many Hakka Kung Fu styles like “White Eyebrow” (Baak Mei), “Dragon Style” (Lung Ying) or various branches of “Southern Mantis” (Naam Paai Tong Long). Hakka (in Cantonese Haak Ga 客家), literaly “Guest Families”, refers to […]

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Old Southern Praying Mantis Video

Juk Lam Southern Praying Mantis from a movie “How Wong Feihung Pitted a Lion Against the Unicorn” (1956)

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