Tai chi, Xing Yi and Bagua all have methods based on the fighting techniques of chickens and roosters. In fact the posture called Golden Rooster stands on one leg is found in all three arts. What is the reason for the emphasis on this posture?
The golden rooster posture in Tai Chi, and the methods that go along with it originated from the Xing Yi Chicken Shape, from the 12 shapes or 12 animal styles, even before this it was in Xin Yi. This is a very old posture.
Chicken Shape (雞形): Ability to flap wings and fight bravely. 雞形:有抖翅和威勇戰鬥的能耐 martial postures that has an qi gong function as well, namely nourishing the kindney.
The chicken form in Xing Yi has many methods found in Tai Chi, such as:
- Avoiding Double Weighting
- Separation Force Method
- Chicken Stepping for Knees and Kicking
- Elbow Attacks
- Sensitive Point Attacks
- Rotational dragging Force
One idea of the golden rooster stance is to keep the peng or ward off power in the hand while simultaneously and independently to moving a leg to deliver a knee or kick. You put your hands in a simple autopilot defense posture when you’re practicing your tai chi kicks. The peng jin or in the hand can be used to hold, block, defend or pull. You can do this with one or hands, golden rooster stands on one leg trains the basic idea. Look at the cigar in my hand, this is where you put the peng jin, keep it there and forget about it while attacking with the legs.
Golden Rooster Stance Applications
The applications for golden rooster stance are various knees, and elbow methods, and combinations of grabbing and seizing and then kicking the trapped joints.
Qigong uses of the Golden Rooster Stance
Golden rooster is also an important qigong posture that can be used to regulate and activate kidney chi. The resting posture at the end of the video is how you learn the full posture, it feels like you’re pulling you knee into your kua. This is also how you train the qigong aspect of the golden rooster. If you assume that posture and have someone place one hand on your ming men (top of sacrum) point and the the other on your knee and push them both together that is the feel. You can get a lot of control from moving this way.
The other thing is that you are constantly feeding your weight into the rear leg.
The kick in the end clip is an example of usage, if you where pulling someone in with your hands they would brace the rear leg then when it’s extended fully you can kneecap it. Alternatively you can hook their front leg from behind with the kicking foot first.
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