toward the end of the clip there is some sparring and alot of it seems to be trapping (both these links play the same clip):
http://www.tonglong.co.uk/mantis_assets/steelwire.wmv
http://media.putfile.com/steelwire
and here is a highlight of some oldschool kung fu masters:
http://media.putfile.com/Old-masters
Those are some weak-ass side kicks in that first movie. And the “Sparring” looked like a crazy slap-fest with weak kicks and the occasional chain-punch thrown in.
You see, not long ago, someone asked if anyone had a clip of southern mantis, and here is Strangler to save the day.
Why does anyone bother posting subpar shit like this…
Oh woe is kung fu these days. Finding non-sucky instruction is almost impossible if you live in the wrong areas. Excuse me while I shed some tears over a tub of ice cream while watching Darma and Greg. cries
http://www.xujinge.com/f4_1.shtml
Videos - http://www.xujinge.com/mantis/vids/mantisApp1.mpg
http://www.xujinge.com/mantis/vids/mantisApp2.mpg
http://www.xujinge.com/mantis/vids/mantisApp3.mpg
http://www.xujinge.com/mantis/vids/mantisApp4.mpg
This seems to be the only praying mantis kung fu in singapore… not alive, as you can see… but the locks seem interesting, when combined with something a little more effective possibly.
By the way, might want to download from site and play in media player… quicktime sticks for me…
Are there ANY impressive praying mantis clips out there? there has to be some… also, what are all your opinions on the mantisApp4 clip, or the shoulder grab defense? viable?
That was a suckass demonstration of Seven Star…
Not to mention from Singapore which is the worst place someone could’ve picked to grab a demo of 7*…
That App contained in the second video is normally practiced in a two person drill with heavy resistance.
The only quality 7star mantis boxing I know directly is the Aussies headed up by a Brendan Tunks
www.mantisboxing.com
and the Polish Mantis Boxing Society.
Both of them train hardcore in that they’ll train alive, and train to use the principals of mantis boxing in a “live” setting.
That said, if you get the leg busting traditional training of 7* mantis, you’ll have a good base to go into almost any art since they focus more on specific combat principals and applying them to a resisting partner 
Oh yea, and they’re heavy heavy heavy on conditioning & cardio…
Just my two cents
Check out the southern mantis guys saving us from the scary spaceman at the end of video #1!!
Steelwire was a hybrid style created by Tony Leung in the UK.
Have heard many stories about them years ago.
Tony used to write this monthly column in Combat back in the day.
Tong Long (Southern Mantis) is not 7 star mantis (a version of Northern praying mantis).
What took them so long to ban Strangler this tine?
I would have been impressed if the guy in the motorcycle helmet fought back…at all.
Never said it was
Just said that either way it was a suck ass demo…
S’right.
Then he changed his name to Shi DeLon and got involved with the bull shit Shaolin UK franchise teaching this crap Its not all ‘Tony’ but you can see him in several clips.
I have heard many stories about him to, my favorite is back in the day of steel wire, Tony was big into saying who was and who was not a valid Kung Fu teacher with a good lineage. So after a period of slaging off some variouse teachers, a guy called Tony Felix (who I only know in passing) turned up at Leung’s class with a crowd, blocked the doors, challanged and beat him up.
I remember Leung writing about it in his cobmat columb, but his story was differant to the story I heard and involved both guys ‘circling each other unable to get a hit in’. He added that Felix turned up on a beginners night, and it would have been differant had his black belts been there!
Then he went to china, created a back story, changed his name, ditched his art and started peddling bullshit!
Here’s one of the best mantis videos I have found. It’s pretty old and I think it’s been posted on Bullshido a few times now, but here you go: http://media.putfile.com/mantisfight
Kengou thats a pretty cool clip. But what is that INFERNAL noise going on in the background of it? Sounds like giant washing machines or something.
Nice, shows off some basic waist principles and Gou Rou Cai, but it’s still pretty much compliant, with a little more pressure thrown in. Wish Brendan would put up clips of his team fighting sanshou. It’s not pretty but you you get to see it work in a live setting
No gloves and no head shots. I still don’t understand how people can “spar” without actually hitting each other. Beating on the Teen Ranger at the end doesn’t count, because he didn’t hit back, at least not to the head.
So… “drilling”? Yes. “Sparring”? No.
looks neat, but it sure aint sparring.
it just looks like a game that i used to play in junior high called “slap boxing”
instead of using real punches u just slap the shit out of the other guy.
it sometimes resulted in real fighting.