When practising the Sabre, we employ movements such as spring up, shift, dodge and display. The sabre is entwined like a belt round the waist and then shoots out; when the steps change the body shifts; advance one step, withdraw one step; chop once, cut once. Hand and sabre in conjunction; coil and spin, rise and fall;
- Pi to chop/split from various angles
- Ci to stab/pierce
- Tan to search out, slashing upwards to the groin
- Tou to push up left hand supporting the blade
- Ti to lift an upward diversion
- Liao to stir diversion and slash in a continuous movement
- Chen to sink diverting an attack by pressing downwards
- Lu to divert an attack to the side
