Praying Mantis

The Praying mantis boxing is said to have been created by Wang Lang in Shandong Province at the turn of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Legend has it that Wang was fond of martial arts and went to study martial art at the Shao-Lin Temple in Henan Province. Having his enlightenment from fighting of mantis with a cicada, he found that the mantis had a good rhythm in attack and defence and controlled its catch and release well. In terms of this, he summarized skills of attack, defence and issuing energy - 8 strong ways and 12 soft ways, and created Praying Mantis Boxing incorporating footwork of monkey.
With good fame in actual combating, The mantis boxing features force, power, dexterity, speed, a combination of hardness and suppleness, of substantial and insubstantial tricks end blows and of attack and defence. It necessitates a good command of catch and release and a variation of action. The most important part is the fact it seeks the weakness of your opponents and beats them instantly with unpredictable changes of tricks and combinations of hardness and suppleness.