Sect, and clan, in my case, but there are martial arts schools too. My sect runs the sort of... polishing half-year for the juniors from all the different sects.

Mm, well, here...

( he ends up summoning his sword, in a flash of sparkling white and blue light, so he's holding his sheathed sword up. taking enough steps back that he can manage to show the sword from where it sets its sheathed tip on top of his foot, comes up to about his hip. )

You stand askew on it, blade under the arch or the balls of your feet, depending on how you're balancing.