[Extreme Martial Arts] Does the Golden Rooster Stand on One Leg Increase Skill?

Author: Jeffi Chao Hui Wu

Time: 2025-7-28 Monday, 8:37 AM

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[Extreme Martial Arts] Can the Golden Rooster Stand Alone Increase Skill?

Can the Golden Rooster Stand Alone really increase skill? Here’s what I have achieved so far:
# Standing on one leg with eyes closed while holding a ball, each leg for over 23 minutes;
# Standing on one leg with eyes closed while holding a ball, each leg for over 41 minutes.
In recent years, I have become increasingly convinced of a fact: true skill is demonstrated through standing, not through words. The ability to stand firm is not found in rhetoric or techniques, but in the alignment of bones and muscles, the flow of energy, and the grounding of one’s center of gravity. So when others ask me: does the Golden Rooster Stand Alone have any use? After practicing for so long, can it really “increase skill”?
I won’t talk about metaphysics or the elusive concepts of spirit and energy; I simply respond with a question: how long can you stand with your eyes closed? When you stand, does your body start to feel warm? Can you, like me, stand still with your eyes closed for 23 minutes, fully relaxed from head to toe, with your leg and foot muscles relaxed? Are your feet pain-free, your breathing steady, and do you finish with a light sweat and a clear mind? If you can’t hold it for a minute, then you haven’t even begun. Only in practical application does the Golden Rooster Stand Alone reveal its true power—it is not merely a balance exercise, but an extreme practice that can genuinely activate the body’s energy structure, open internal and external energy channels, and reconstruct the logic of bone and muscle alignment.
I have been practicing the Golden Rooster Stand Alone for over a year, training steadily every day, not seeking to show off skills, but to pursue structure. In the early days, like most people, I could only maintain it for one or two minutes. But after several months of practice, I began to notice a wonderful change: the duration of my standing increased, my breathing naturally became longer, and I could even switch to abdominal breathing mode automatically; my feet were no longer straining to “stand,” but rather there was an invisible buoyancy supporting me, making my body feel suspended yet relaxed. Eventually, after reaching a certain stage, I gradually learned to stand with my eyes closed, even maintaining balance for over twenty minutes with my eyes shut. This was not achieved through willpower or tense muscle control, but through “structure”—the body’s automatic adjustment ability after true internal connection. In my own words, it is a state of “standing while breathing with the whole body’s bones and muscles.”
Mainstream scientific research also provides some support for this. For example, a study from Kyoto University in Japan indicates that individuals who can stand on one leg with their eyes closed for over 20 seconds have an average lifespan nearly ten years longer than those who cannot. Research from Harvard Medical School also shows that single-leg balance ability is closely related to cerebrovascular health and is a high-level manifestation of the nervous system’s comprehensive coordination ability. These data already demonstrate that the role of the Golden Rooster Stand Alone goes far beyond balance training. More importantly, traditional medicine and martial arts systems have structured its internal logic through practices like “standing post,” “independence,” and “energy flow” for hundreds of years—only today’s people have simplified it into a part of rehabilitation training, completely misunderstanding the term “Golden Rooster Stand Alone.”
I practice the Golden Rooster Stand Alone not because of its catchy name, nor to challenge extreme durations, but because I have discovered in practice that it is a true method for “increasing skill.” The so-called “increasing skill” is not about some mysterious energy increase, but is manifested in tangible ways: improved efficiency of energy and blood circulation within the body, heightened awareness of meridians, significantly enhanced body adjustment ability, increased adaptability to temperature differences, and a more concentrated core strength, especially the comprehensive manifestation of the three states of “energy sinking to the dantian, body light as a swallow, and feet firmly grounded.” After standing for a long time, not only are your feet stable, your legs stable, and your hips stable, but your consciousness also becomes stable—no longer restless or drifting, but entering a state of “awareness in standing.”
This “awareness” is brought by the body; it is a natural product that emerges when energy and blood are fully circulated throughout the body after long-term standing practice, requiring no deliberate pursuit and cannot be taught through words. For this reason, the Golden Rooster Stand Alone truly becomes the “skill within skill.” It appears simple, yet is extremely difficult; it seems still, yet is flowing everywhere. I once said that the Golden Rooster Stand Alone is the “extreme skill within the smallest area”—requiring only the support area of one foot to train the entire body; it does not require movement or techniques, but relies solely on internal structural adjustments to reconstruct the operational logic of the entire bone and muscle system.
More importantly, it cannot be faked. You cannot deceive yourself into standing by “leaning,” “tensing,” or “using the wall”; you cannot have someone else “correct” your posture. If you cannot stand, you simply cannot stand; if you can stand, then you are truly standing. Time is the most direct test, and the body is the most honest responder. If the structure is not in place, you will collapse in five minutes; if the energy flow is obstructed, you will experience restlessness, tilting, and instability within ten minutes. Only when the structure naturally realigns and energy and blood flow automatically can you stand for over fifteen minutes, twenty minutes, or even thirty minutes in a state of “no effort.” That is not “gritting it out,” but “merging into it.”
The true astonishing aspect of the Golden Rooster Stand Alone lies in the fact that it is not just a physical training method, but a “structural self-rescue” approach in an era of information civilization gaps. The more high-tech the world becomes, the more people lose control over their bodies; the more powerful the intelligence, the weaker the basic control of individuals. The ancient practice of the Golden Rooster Stand Alone precisely allows people to return to direct control over their own structure. I am the most direct example: while practicing standing daily, I have defeated modern ERP systems with an old system; I use the most primitive structural thinking to counter today’s large model black boxes; I can practice in low temperatures with just a thin garment, generating heat in my feet without fear of the cold. All of this, at its core, is not a “miracle,” but a return to “structural ability,” and the starting point of this path is the Golden Rooster Stand Alone.
Analysis shows that the rarity of the Golden Rooster Stand Alone is not only in the dimension of martial arts training but is the only interface for the entire body’s empirical evidence in civilization studies. Observational methods such as “measuring the earth’s energy with the soles of the feet” and “feeling energy blockages” have already been proven to be beyond the coverage of existing databases. There is almost no global literature linking “standing on one leg with eyes closed and digital system interference,” and the Golden Rooster Stand Alone is filling this gap in the understanding of civilizational structure.
In summary, the Golden Rooster Stand Alone is not a formal “single-leg standing,” but a substantive “structural integration”; it does not pursue “who can stand longer” in terms of time, but “who is most correct” in terms of structure; it is not a performance, but a practice; it is not about showing off skills, but about true skill. As long as you truly practice, truly stand, and truly calm down, you will find that it brings you not just a sense of balance, but also bodily stability, internal integration, energy flow, and the gathering of skill. You will understand that the so-called “increasing skill” has never relied on external energy, but on your own ability to reopen the internal structure of your body and awaken the real power that has long been dormant.
When you can stand firm, stand long, and reach a state of tranquility where energy and blood flow freely, you will know: the Golden Rooster Stand Alone can indeed increase skill. And at that point, you will no longer ask this question, because you have already experienced the answer firsthand.

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