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Characteristics of knife routine

Martial artists often use "a knife like a tiger" to describe their bravery and strength. The broadsword is a long weapon. As the saying goes, "a broadsword depends on its blade", that is, when using the blade, you can do some kung fu such as chopping, rubbing, lifting, chopping, stabbing, pressing, hanging and stopping. Single knife and double knife are short weapons, which means "single knife looks at the hand, double knife looks at the walk". Therefore, the single knife emphasizes cutting, chopping, stabbing, pulling, rubbing, blocking and cutting, while the double knife emphasizes uniform force with both hands, clear knife method, flexible pace and coordination from top to bottom to show the gesture of "flowers hidden in leaves and butterflies flying". Popular giant knives, three-pointed double-edged knives, double-ring knives, long knives (two-handed knives) and so on. The knife method is mainly chopping, "the advantage of knife is chopping", and there are other knife methods such as pulling, stabbing, cutting, blocking, collapsing, chopping, rubbing, tying and wrapping.