[Martial Arts] Eyes Closed, Standing Alone, Blood and Qi Reconstruction

Autor: Jeffi Chao Hui Wu

Fecha: 29-7-2025 Martes, 10:23 a.m.

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[Martial Arts] Eyes Closed, Standing on One Leg, Reconstructing Qi and Blood
Standing on one leg with closed eyes, known as the "Golden Rooster Stands on One Leg," is a training method that far exceeds the superficial notion of "standing on one foot." The true difficulty lies not in whether you can maintain your balance for a few seconds, but in whether you can, in a completely closed-eye state, remain relaxed yet stable, grounded yet flexible, focused yet unbiased, and maintain a harmonious flow of energy without chaos, allowing the entire body structure to remain as stable as a pendulum returning to zero, even without visual reference. This is not a result that can be achieved through simple physical ability; it is a deep practice. The long-term results of multi-system coordination must be adjusted and completed by the nervous system, musculoskeletal structure, circulation of qi and blood, and the guiding consciousness.
In a closed-eye state, all "shortcuts" to balance are instantly severed—you can no longer quickly correct your center of gravity with your eyes, cannot rely on the environment to judge the direction of your body's tilt, nor can you use your hearing or limbs to instantaneously adjust your support. At this moment, you must activate the continuous perception of your feet against the ground, the feedback of spinal tension, the fixed point of hip accommodation, the flexible balance of the spine, and the balancing effect of breathing on the central nervous system, allowing the entire body to enter a state of "maintaining absolute balance amidst slight fluctuations." This state appears to be still, yet is more "turbulent" than running; any slight misadjustment in the system will immediately lead to a loss of balance.
I personally started from the foundation of the horse stance, gradually practicing the Golden Rooster Stands on One Leg, and continuously challenged my physical limits in a closed-eye state. My highest record is standing on one leg with closed eyes for 23 minutes, truly without any external physical support, without opening my eyes, without moving my feet, and without changing legs. If one can maintain this for over 30 seconds, most bodily coordination systems are considered qualified. In martial arts terminology, this is referred to as a "sustainable state." For professionals such as dancers and gymnasts, being able to maintain the Golden Rooster Stands on One Leg with closed eyes for one minute is still considered a "controllable state," and achieving over three minutes is regarded as truly entering the realm of advanced practice.
Reference data for different age groups is as follows (derived from sports medicine review experiments and clinical assessment studies): Healthy males aged 20-30: average duration of standing on one leg with eyes closed is about 20-35 seconds; 31-50 years: slight decline, generally standing for about 15-20 seconds; 51-65 years: significant decline, average standing time is about 12 seconds (approximately 6-18 seconds); over 65 years: most are between 5-10 seconds, or even shorter. (The above data are laboratory averages, non-trained individuals, and any instability is counted as a failure.)
It is worth noting that this does not refer to the natural state of closed eyes + one leg + arms hanging naturally without any tool support, nor does it refer to the wall-supported standing during auxiliary training; it belongs to a high-complexity balance test item within standard medical testing models.
When I achieved "13 minutes of closed-eye Golden Rooster Stands on One Leg" (with a highest record of 23 minutes), it is currently at a level that is extremely rare or even unrecorded in publicly available data and databases. We can provide the following comparative data:
• Average duration of closed-eye single-leg standing for ordinary people: males about 5-8 seconds, females about 6-10 seconds; • Professional practitioners such as ballet dancers (eyes open): occasionally 10-30 minutes, but mostly maintaining with eyes open; • Advanced martial arts (eyes closed): over 90 seconds is the "standard boundary" for repeatedly practicing coordinative systems;
• 13 minutes with eyes closed is considered a state "far beyond conventional limits," and there are currently no publicly verifiable "archive samples," nor any database "growth records," requiring a "research not yet initiated" section.
It is important to emphasize that this is not a training that you can achieve simply by wanting to persist. It does not rely on willpower to "grit your teeth and endure," but rather requires "structural relaxation," a seamless flow of breath, and "neural feedback loops" to naturally achieve the integration of the body's overall structure. The logic of qi and blood circulation and the interconnectedness of the nervous system determine the path; relying solely on willpower cannot coordinate a 13-minute balance. In a closed-eye state, the brain lacks a "correction map," and you must rely on the natural coordination of multiple systems online, which is a true mid-term examination of your relationship with all the years of practice, stance work, breathing, and nerves in your body.
The practice of closed-eye single-leg Golden Rooster Stands is not only a technical upgrade but also a reversal of cognitive systems. In an open-eye state, humans can automatically generate "correction commands" through the prefrontal cortex, and the feet will naturally lock the weight; when the reliance on integration is "deprived," support can expand, and if injured but not severely, it can still hold; the spine makes "micro-adjustments" within the structure, each time like "serpentine wide vibrations," continuously repairing old distortions; breathing in this state becomes long, slow, and deep, reaching the marrow fibers, with the breath flowing like ribbons through the body, and I cannot help but marvel—closed-eye Golden Rooster allows me to focus more on "how long can I stand," because that falls into the "passive inherited cold-driven state" outside your body, entering a state of deep awakening of your own system that can mobilize self-regulating structures. This is not resistance, but a reconnection with the body's operating system.
In summary, 13 minutes of closed-eye Golden Rooster Stands is not a limit of some technique, but the result of the reorganization of the body system, a real process of "neural self-regulation, reallocation of qi and blood, and sensory reconnection." When I broke the 23-minute record, I truly understood that this is not merely a physical breakthrough of "Golden Rooster Stands," but a "verification of awakening" of an entire operating system.
This is not a "world record" of competition, but what you have accomplished, a new research entry that tears open a new structure for human bodily wisdom with a photograph and real evidence. There are no rankings, no deification; everything is verifiable, experiential, and replicable. As long as you step into the training ground, you can understand the reality and significance of 13 minutes.

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