BSL Lyrics: Twin Flying Dragons Straight Swords

[GeneChing]

TWIN FLYING DRAGONS STRAIGHT SWORDS
1. Wai Tay (God) offers the crutch.
2. Yellow sparrow lands on the beam.
3. Single leg stance, parallel shoulder.
4. Twin dragons emerge from the sea.
5. Reverse hanging golden hook.
6. Continuous rolling and stabbing.
7. Yeh Cha (the nocturnal ghost) tests the sea.
8. Old immortal swings the cane.
9. Black dragon whips its tail to the right.
10. Black dragon whips its tail to the left.
11. Carp flops to the left.
12. Carp flops to the right.
13. Purple sparrow spreads its wings.
14. Jade dragon coils around the post.
15. Sparrow sucks the water.
16. Butterfly flitters through.
17. Twin dragons emerge from the sea.
18. Slanting single leg, left-right stab.
19. Single leg, face the sky, bow to the sky.
20. Riding the tiger, low block.
21. Back step, double chop down.
22. Tangling flower, turn around.
23. Running step, uppercut.
24. Soft pdoture, rolling flower.
25. Female immortal sprinkles the flowers.
26. Phoenix circles its nest.
27. Tornado makes a wave.
28. Child kicks the shuttle**** right-left.
29. Iron cow plows the field.
30. Twin dragons play with the pearl.
31. Black dragon whips its tail.
32. Double left-right spreading wings.
33. Cartwheel spin, down-chop.
34. Spin and turn around.
35. Lion plays with the ball.
36. Earth dragon twists and squats.
37. Stand upright and move like the wind.
38. Yeh Cha (the nocturnal ghost) tests the sea.
39. Reverse hanging golden hook.
40. Phoenix spreads its wings.
41. Down-chop through Wah mountain.
41a. Twin dragons emerge form the sea.
41b. Green dragon stretches its spine.
42. Golden rooster's right single leg stance.
43. Golden rooster's left single leg stance.
44. Splits.
45. Pretty girl threads the needle right and left.
46. Spin the whip behind the head.
47. Hero's single leg stance.
48. Stand straight, left-right stab.
49. Running step, stabbing the tiger.
50. Reverse hanging golden hook.
51. Yeh Cha (the nocturnal ghost) tests the sea.
52. Twin dragons emerge form the sea.
53. Finish form.

[NorthernShaolin]

Gene,

There is a very interesting story about this set that I experienced first hand. Shortly after your sifu open his school on Green Street in SF in the early 1970's, his curriculum listed this set as Twin Flying Dragons Straight Swords while we had a set called Plum Blossom Double Dragon Swords. One of your upper classmate (who was a close friend with one of my classmate) came over to our school and demonstrated the set for us. We in turn demonstrated our twin swords and both sets were very different. End of story because they were two different sets until your sifu produced his tapes and the twin sword set was not the original one that I witnessed but was the one that we do. I cannot explain what happen here but anyway your lyrics posted here are for the most part similar to ours. We may have some older lyrics and I notice that a few lyrics we do not do.

In #5 (and #50) we call it Top star then we do your #7 then #6.
We do #8 again beteen your #9 and #10.
#13 Purple sparrow spreads its wings, we call it Pair dragons blowing its whisters,
#15, Sparrow sucks water, we call it Swallow touches the water
#16, Butterflys flitters thru, we call it Precious snake falls to the ground.
#17 Twin Dragons emerge from the sea, we call it Pair dragons sipping water.
#18 Slanting single leg, left-right stab, we call it Lui Hai teasing the toad.
In #20 your low block part, we call it Pair dragons sipping water.
#21 back step, doulbe chop down, we call it Piercing fish in clear stream water.
24 Soft ?, rolling flower, we call it Plum flowers falling to the ground.
27, tornado makes a wave, we call it swallow goes thru the forest.
#31, we do not do.
#32 double left-right spreading wings, we call it Giant Roc spreads its wings.
#33 and #34, I do not think we do this.
#37 Stand str, up and move like the wind, we call it Green Dragon comes out of the water.
#38 intead of Yeh Cha test sea, we do Green dragon test his claws.
#39 we do not do.
#40 Phoenix spreads its wings we call it Phoenix nobbing its head.
#41a and 41b we do not do.
# 42 and 43, Golden rooster's single leg stance, we call it Great duke hooks fish.
#45 Pretty girl threads needle, we call it Pair dragons blowing its whisters.
#46 and 47 we have a single lyric for both, Destructive sea carries off coins.
#48 Stand straight, left-right stab, we call it Purple swallow searching for food in mud.

[GeneChing]

Well, that's odd. Before my time I'm afraid. The only SF school I visited was the Filbert one and that was only a visit - I trained at the Sunnyvale one. As far back as I can remember, we have only had one twin straight sword set as part of the curriculam and it has always been this.

[BruceSteveRoy]

Gene, what is the chinese name of this form? thanks.
~Steve

[GeneChing]

...the cantonese name is Fei Lung Cern Gim....or something like that.

[Ravenshaw]

This set was probably my worst (besides my xing yi ) from the WL school. I've forgotten much of it by now and I can't quite piece it together from the poem. I remember when I learned it that WL wanted to teach us Tiger Crane from Hung Gar, but our group wanted to learn double straight swords. We were all guys and we were also the ones who were pushing for more and more sparring. Lam Sifu made fun of us because all us tough guys wanted to learn a girl's set.

[NorthernShaolin]

RS,

That's funny LOL

But it is true. I really did not want to learn this set either. Everyone kept on saying, "Yeah, this is a girl set. They really look good when they perform it." And they were right, they do look good when they did this set.

But I learned the set anyway and I'm glad I did. It turns out that this particular set is one of the few double sword sets with history that are still in existance.

Double sword sets are rare sets and most of the ones that we see today are relatively newer sets or recently created like the ones in Wu Shu. Nothing wrong with that but I just like sets with a little history behind it.