does anyone have a breakdown for this technique? I've been told that there is more to it than what's in long 4...?

I can't speak for others but I'm not sure there is an actual breakdown on this technique. I was told that it was a filler technique that was taken out of long 4. Personally our class has not played with it in self defense context. Looking at this tech. in the context of the form maybe you want to add a right outward claw after the finger dart. Get the attacker's head to turn place your right foot down execute a right thrusting sweep, maybe follow it up with the reverse roundhouse sweep. This is just a thought. Maybe another thought is to finish the technique with the extension to Prance of the Tiger it looks like the same basic position to me.
Salute,
Jason Farnsworth

Darting leaves is an old technique that was taken out of the system. It remains in Long 4, but the version in Long 4 is probably incomplete. Some people at the studio I train at are curious as to what the whole thing looks like.

To the best of my knowledge this technique is not "set" in stone as part of the curriculum. I was told that the movement was in form 4 as well as reversing circles, and circling windmills. Someone gave these movements a technique sequence and there they were. The other two had made it in the curriculum Darting Leaves did not. Maybe I was told incorrectly, I don't really know. But all I can tell you is what I've learned in my short amount of time in kenpo. Hopefully this helps. Or maybe someone that has more info. will post on this subject.
Jason Farnsworth

Being that this is a "older" kenpo technique. Is there a chance that The Tracy's teach it in its entirety? I have it in L4, but I had to do some detecting to even find out what it was called!

Salute in Christ,
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Hi all,

We have it listed as a tech, the Tracy name for it is "Preying Mantis." I don't work off an official Tracy curriculum, we teach it pretty much as seen in the form. Instead of the simultaneous eyepoke and groin/knee kick, we teach to parry, trap, kick, then use the handstrike. We teach the different sequence because it allows marriage of gravity if you want to use more of an impact handweapon. In the form it is done simultaneously.

Maybe Ricardo (or Dan Farmer) can answer this one better regarding the Tracy tech.

Lamont

Hi Guys, For what it's worth, my instructor told me when I asked long ago that it was the alternate beginning to protective fans. I.E. From poke kick combo check his arm down and step in with elbow ect.