1. Single whip
2. Fist under elbow
3. Repulse the monkey
   1. Turn the forward hand palm-up, following the fingertips
   2. Step back and circle the wrist to accommodate your opponent’s arm
   3. Make space with the chest to give the other arm a path upward, leading with the fingertips and finishing with the palm up and fingers pointing away from you.
   4. Let the top hand fall, bounce and pull you onto your front foot as the back hand travels forward in the direction of its laogong.
4. Strum the lute
5. White crane cools its wings

3. Repulse the Monkey

While in Yang, Chen and Wu styles this posture is performed stepping backward and facing in one direction, in Sun style we turn 180 degrees. A better name for it is “Step back and chase the monkey” as seen in this video of Sun Lutang’s daughter and student, Master Sun Jianyun, from 1959.

In application, this turn more or less does away with the notion of repulsing entirely and instead lets the opponent’s momentum carry them through the technique. More like “Step around the monkey and fling it in the direction it is already moving.”