I just watched an old Green Hornet episode (being reshown on one of the movie channels) called "The Preying Mantis" featuring Mako as a Tong member who practices Preying Mantis. There's a short segment where Mako's character explains some principles of the art and its 500 year tradition. It's so generic ("elbows in") that it's hard for me to tell if it has any real connection to preying mantis or if they just thought it sounded good.
(As an aside, "praying mantis" is correct in English, but the title was as above.)
(As an aside, "praying mantis" is correct in English, but the title was as above.)