Write Up

  1. Preparation
  2. Right Supplementary Fist with Tiger Riding Stance
  3. Mantis Catches Cicada
  4. Left Thrusting Palm with Attention Stance
  5. Right Supplementary Fist with Right Tiger Riding Stance
  6. Grappling Stance with Leg Bouncing Stance
  7. Right Elbow Strike with Circle Entering Stance
  8. Right Back Chopping Fist with Circle Entering Stance
  9. Pluck Treasure from Behind
  10. Grappling Hand with Horse Riding Stance
  11. Left Intercept Hand with Left Hill Climbing Stance
  12. Right Chopping Fist with Left Hill Climbing Stance
  13. Hook Grapple & Pluck with Left Hill Climbing Stance
  14. Little Scoop Wheel with Tiger Riding Stance
  15. Left Thrusting Palm with Hill Climbing Stance After Attention Stance
  16. Right Supplementary Fist with Right Hill Climbing Stance
  17.  Double Grappling Hands with Horse Riding Stance
  18. Right Waist Chopping Palm with Left hill Climbing Stance (After Attention Stance?)
  19. Left Back Chopping Stance (Filing Punch?) with Horse Riding Stance
  20. Downward Intercepted Hand with Leg Hanging Stance
  21. Upward Intercepted Hand with Leg Hanging Stance
  22.  Chopping Fist with Right Horse Riding Stance
  23. Right Upward Elbow with Leg Crossing Stance
  24. Right Thrusting Palm with Hill Climbing Stance
  25. Left Supplementary Stance with Horse Riding Stance
  26. Left 7 Star Leg Sprouting Kick
  27. Right 7 Star Leg Sprouting Kick
  28. Mantis Catches Cicada
  29. Right Eyes Plucking with Door Shattering Kick
  30.  Palm Shearing
  31. Right Mantis Spies the Cave with Right Hill Climbing
  32.  Right Round House Punch with Attention Stance
  33. Downward Block with Leg Hanging Stance
  34.  Upward Ward Off Fist with Leg Hanging Stance
  35.  Waist Chopping Hand with Grappling Hand
  36. Left Counter Intercept Hand with Horse Riding Stance
  37. Right Counter Intercept Hand with Horse Riding Stance
  38.  Upward Block and Navel Punch
  39.  Hand Fanning with Right Collapsing Stance
  40.  Hand Fanning with Left Collapsing Stance (turn back to left)
  41.  Hand Fanning with Right Collapsing Stance
  42. Waist Chopping with left 7 Star Stance
  43. Left Round House Punch with Left Hill CLimbing Stance
  44. Left Intercept Hand with Left 7 Star Stance
  45.  Right Supplementary Punch with Right 7 Star Punch
  46.  Mantis Catches Cicada

7 Star Praying Mantis Kung Fu, Foshan Wing Chun & Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan based in Plumstead, Cape Town, South Africa

leekamwing Grandmaster Lee Kam Wing (seventh generation) was born in Hong Kong, 1947. He was introduced to Master Chiu Chi Man by his maternal uncle while he was fifteen years old. He spent ten years learning the Seven-Star Praying Mantis Style from Master Chiu Chi Man.

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Sifu Derek ITSWA teachers For over four decades Sifu Derek Frearson has had a fascination for the Chinese Martial Arts and has sought out many fine Masters in the pursuit of knowledge.  Sifu Frearson is the president and Chief instructor of the International Taijiquan and Shaolin Wushu Association.

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After studying the Chinese Martial Arts in England for many years he went to America in 1978 to study Taijiquan and Northern Praying Mantis.  Sifu Frearson made his first visit to China in 1984 and has returned there every year since, he now organises Martual Arts and Health Tours to China.

An avid promoter of the Chinese Martial Arts he has written many articles for English Martial Arts magazines and has been featured in magazines and periodicals from Spain, Germany, Venezuela, China, South Africa, Hong Kong and Poland.  Sifu Frearson has also taught in South Africa, Spain, Tunisia, Italy, Ireland, France, Hungary and Jersey and to overseas students from Germany, France Hungary, Poland, Italy, South Africa, Jersey, Ireland, Spain and Poland visit England to be taught by him.  In 1987 with the help of his student Ferran Tarrago Tomas, he produced a book in Spanich on the Northern Mantis Style.

Sifu Frearson was an invited guest at the Grand Opening of the International Shaolin Wushu Training Centre, Deng Feng, China in 1989 and in 1992 was made a lifetime member of the Shaolin Boxers Association of Deng Feng China.

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leslie In 1986 Sifu Leslie Reed opened one of the first public schools of Chinese Martial arts in Cape Town.

During 1987 he traveled to and trained with Sifu Derek Frearson of the then British Taijiquan and Shaolin Wushu Association.It was under the guidance of Sifu Derek that Leslie Sifu learnt the Wah Lum Tan Tui, Yang Taijiquan as well as Wing Chun systems.

On his return to Cape Town he established the South African chapter of the BTSWA. Sifu Wayne began training with Sifu Leslie in February of 1989.

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During 1989 Leslie Sifu traveled with Derek Sifu to China in order to train at the Shaolin Temple as well as with Grandmaster Lee Kam Wing of the 7 Star Praying Mantis Style. Over the following ten years, Leslie Sifu joined Derek Sifu on a number of training tours to China.

Leslie Sifu always insisted on strict adherence to the technical detail as well as to the martial art code of conduct. In this he was uncompromising. Between the period of 1990 and 1998 Leslie Sifu built the South African chapter of the BTSWA, now known as the International Taijiquan and Shaolin Wushu Association, to a school consisting of 19 instructors spread around SA. During this time Derek Sifu appointed him as Director of the ITSWASA.

Because of his great passion for Chinese Martial Arts, students kept coming back to learn more from him. He had a presence which nobody could ignore when he entered the class. This was one of the reasons that everyone tried their best to do everything to perfection so as to ensure that he was pleased.

On 3 March 2003 Leslie passed away and he is still missed today.