mantis boxing

[arnisador]

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.)

 

[7starmantis]

Yes, many kung fu schools tend to use the preying mantis spelling more often.

7sm

 

[arnisador]

Originally posted by arnisador
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.

According to John Little's Bruce Lee Library Vol. I: Words of the Dragon: Interviews 1958-1973, Dan Inosanto was the stunt double for Mako during the fight scenes.