Sunday 11 September 2022

Bamboo Forest Temple Mantis

 When I first started training martial arts aged 23   I joined a school named "Yellow Dragon Fist" the Sifu Simon Wong, was a Master of  "Bamboo Forest Temple Mantis"  (a Southern Mantis  hard style of Kung Fu)  and Yang style Tai Chi Chuan (an internal/soft style) , He was also a member of the True Buddha School a Buddhist sect that combined Tantric (Tibetan Buddhism) with elements of Taoism.

Mantis Kung Fu in general  mirrors the strong stance and powerful forearms of the preying mantis.  Bamboo Forrest Temple Mantis is the least well known and practised of the mantis styles.

It is commonly known  that the female preying Mantis is the more deadly of the species, being larger than the male and occasionally practising sexual canabalism after mating.

The Mantis is a bug eyed creature and in recent years has been likened on more than one occasion to common portrayls of those "alien" visitors to earth of the kind described in Whitley Steibers "Communion."

Preying Mantis











Bamboo Forest











Bamboo Forest Temple Mantis Masters  & Yellow Dragon Fist students 









Master Simon Wong and Grandmaster Kim Law 











Master Yang Ying














Red Eyebrow













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