[Extreme Martial Arts] The Strongest Stance Training

Author: Jeffi Chao Hui Wu

Time: 2025-8-30 Saturday, 10:11 AM

[Extreme Martial Arts] The Strongest Zhuang Gong
After years of training in Zhuang Gong and practical testing, I have formed a structured and empirically validated understanding: among all Zhuang Gong training, the eyes-closed Golden Rooster Stands on One Leg is currently the "strongest skill" for me, without exception. This judgment is not based on preference or subjective speculation, but rather the result of long-term sensory data and physiological responses accumulated over time.
Over the years, I have progressed from the most basic horse stance to the Three Body Stance, Wuji Stance, Living Stance, and Lingzi Step, culminating in my ability to stand in the Golden Rooster Stands on One Leg with my eyes closed for over 56 minutes today. Throughout this journey, all training has been clearly recorded and compared. For example, in the article "Extreme Martial Arts | Daily Eyes-Closed Golden Rooster Stands on One Leg," I detailed my experience of practicing for 40 minutes at dawn by the seaside: 348 breaths, a maximum heart rate of 147, yet my breathing remained steady, with no sense of fatigue, only a stable state of deep integration between body and consciousness.
The power of Zhuang Gong lies in its physiological activation effects. The eyes-closed Golden Rooster Stands on One Leg is not merely a test of balance; it achieves a balanced state of "skeletal load-bearing" and "full-body relaxation," precisely concentrating the body's load on the single-leg skeletal joints, forcing the nervous system to gradually transition from a high-intensity tension state to a high-density focus mode. In this state, muscle fibers and neural responses are deeply activated, blood circulation and energy flow are completely synchronized, forming an efficient closed loop that promotes the stable and continuous flow of deep internal energy.
This structured training is not a theoretical deduction but a real daily accumulation. For many years, I have arrived at the seaside in Sydney around 5:00 AM, regardless of whether the temperature is 6°C in winter or 30°C in summer, without interruption. The training sequence is fixed: first, I practice four rounds of low stance Tai Chi, then proceed to Zhuang Gong practice, and finally conclude with Xingyi Quan or sword techniques. Articles like "Extreme Martial Arts | Lingzi Step Three Hours Without Fatigue" and "Extreme Martial Arts | Sunrise Moon Tides" document my path from practice to the integration of combat.
This long-term high-intensity training has led to significant measurable changes in my body. In the past, at the seaside with temperatures below 16°C, I had to wear thermal pants and a down jacket to endure; now, I only need quick-dry long pants and a T-shirt, and I can remain as steady as a rock even in the cold wind at 6°C, with my surface temperature consistently maintained between 35.2°C and 36.8°C. This change is fully documented in "Extreme Martial Arts | Evolution from Cold Sensitivity to Cold Resistance."
The horse stance and Three Body Stance are the foundations of all Zhuang Gong and are important parts of my daily training. However, from the perspective of stimulating the body's deep potential, the intensity and effect of the eyes-closed Golden Rooster Stands on One Leg are unmatched. The horse stance taught me endurance and stability, the Three Body Stance helped me master the basics of full-body coordination, while the eyes-closed Golden Rooster Stands on One Leg pushes the entire nervous system to its limits, forcing the body and mind to find relaxation and balance amidst extreme tension. In this state, my brain enters a channel similar to "super-dimensional information flow," where breathing and consciousness completely merge.
In several articles, I have detailed the training effects and practical uses of different Zhuang Gong, but the eyes-closed Golden Rooster Stands on One Leg has allowed me to truly understand the ultimate realm of "movement within stillness, stillness within movement." Especially after long periods of eyes-closed training, I can distinctly feel that deep areas of my brain seem to be completely cleared, and my thoughts begin to process information at an extremely low latency speed. In this state, writing articles, conceptualizing systems, and even designing entire multi-dimensional logistics architectures become incredibly natural and efficient.
After training, there is a noticeable peak in my overall state. The feeling of fullness and expansion in my legs, accompanied by slight soreness in the muscle fibers, allows me to clearly perceive the acceleration of blood circulation and the reorganization of nerves. This state is not "fatigue," but rather a kind of "stillness after the flow of energy is completed." If I were to use the analogy described in "Extreme Time | Multi-Dimensional Daily Work," it is like a natural sedimentation after a high-speed flow of information, requiring no recovery period at all.
This path of Zhuang Gong training has led me to propose a clear conclusion in "Extreme Martial Arts | A New System of Martial Arts": Zhuang Gong is not static standing but a dynamic process of information exchange, an efficient interaction among the body, nerves, and consciousness. The eyes-closed Golden Rooster Stands on One Leg pushes this interaction to its extreme.
In the logic of my systematic training, Zhuang Gong is not only the foundation of martial arts but also a reflection of an information processing model. Whether in martial arts combat, extreme logistics system design, or the construction of a multi-dimensional publishing system, this state of coexistence of stability and flow runs through all my practices and creations.

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