Twist Heavenly Sack
扭腕擎天橐
Ok this is a difficult one, I cant find the name but it is descriptive.
Our questions should be is it talking about twisting your opponents wrists or your own?
What is the heavenly sack?
I cannot find a reference to it, but my conjecture is this; That the heaven sack is a name for the bag of winds that the chinese wind god holds. It is a bag that opens at both ends and you must hold both ends closed to contain the wind. The Japanese god Fujin uses the same imagery.
So it is saying to twist the wind sack and lift it up just like the god.
To me this has several possibilities, but it seems clearer if you look at the sequence of events. The opponent has just attcked your groin and is in pubu. Becasue of the angle this is very hard to block and is best avoided by pulling hips up and back so leaning your body forwards and bending over double.
So in this situation the opponent is in pubu beneath you and you are above them bent over, his head is by your chest. What do you do?
Well I imagine grasp his head. So the wording fo the technique then presents 3 possibilites
1. Grasp both ears and twist in opposite directions, this is a monkey style technique and can be done crossways, one hand behind his head the other accross his face, then grab the ears and twist his head.
2. Grab the clothes of his collar and strangle him by twisting your wrists.
3. choke him by grasping his throat in a headlock, twist your wrists and raist up to choke harder.
So this is conjecture. The other possibility is it is simply a wrist lock as Bawang asserts above.
SCATTER FLOWERS OVERHEAD
使個蓋頂撒花 Gai ding sa hua
So the next techique is to scatter flowers over the head
Here is a similar move in Shaolin, it says to arrange flowers over the head, I am confident it is the same technique. 插花蓋頂回身蛑 Cha Hua Gai Ding, just a different word order and uses arrange instead of scatter.
Basically it is another name for the technique Suang Yun Ding (double cloud over the peak) HEre we can retunr to Dahongquan and see the tehcnique;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6jlEqnZUxw
It is the flourishing the hands above the head displayed at 19s and 35s and 1.00 and 1.04-1.05. It is a general purpose technique it can be used for blocking, twisting the opponetns arm and generally releasing yourself from the combat.
It hink in this situation the girl is freeing herself and they are separating from each other.
This makes sense if my conjecture on the previous technique was correct. The girl used pubu to attack his groin, he grabs her head, she uses the scatter flowers to release herslef and pull away.
WRAP AROUND THE WAIST
遶腰貫索 Rao yao guan suo
Ok so I dont know on this one. MY initial conjecture was that this was an armlock technique however seeing the wording I am not sure, I am not sure of the english translation.
MY intuition based on the idea that the girl has just escaped with a flourish over the head, is that this techniqe pushes her away then leaves the hand in a gurad and does a circling step prowling around as the fighters have now separated. A bit like a bagua circular step
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9qJKLi-Aj0
43s -- 51s like this, That is my intuition, but I dont know.
So I think the two separate and circle each other for a moment.
This is emphasized in the next line
兩個似迎風貼扇兒,無移時急雨催花落。
Both face each other like an iron fan against the wind, a moment of rest from the urgent rain.
OR something to that effect, SO what is happening is they have fought a round then they separate and look at each other, so this line I think is not describing techniques but rather the way they face each other.
IRON FAN AGAINST THE WIND
迎風貼扇
HOWEVER 迎風貼扇 Ying feng tie shan zi, iron fan agaisnt the wind as it happens is a common technique in its own right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9_ySM04oRw
See it here art 20s and again at 1.04, hands crossed projected out, typically as a harsh interception of the opponents hands rather than a regular strike or block.
So of the Shui Hu Zhuan techniques we are pretty sure of a lot of them! The red are moves I have a high degree of confidence are the same moves today.
拽開大四平,踢起雙飛腳。
仙人指路,老子騎鶴。
拗鸞肘出近前心,當頭砲勢侵額角。
翹跟淬地龍,扭腕擎天橐。
這邊女子,使個蓋頂撒花;
這裏男兒,耍個遶腰貫索。
兩個似迎風貼扇兒,無移時急雨催花落
So there are only 3 techniques we are not sure about, riding a crane, twisting heavens sack, rope around the waist.