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From what you described so far; they are associating you with food.

Everything in this thread makes me think you are dealing with feed-bucket aggression. Sometimes, even hens will do it. If that is the case, then then corrective measure I would follow is more time in chicken area where feed is not applied. That will break association birds have between you and...

The crouching gets you down at his level. If you crouch like I do, then it makes your body posture closer to what a chicken has. My son is currently messing with a graded (mostly) Aseel cock that is from a stock with reputation for being man-fighters. They hit fast and hard so my now...

When I do it, their pecking is more focused on feed. With open hands and excited bird, pecks can hit hand causing me to drop feed. Birds like that so try to make it happen wit more aggressive pecks.

It does not take abuse to get them to be mean. It can be as simple as a miss match in behaviors between chicken and human.

It's a combination of genetics and husbandry. I stated before and will again. I can make just about any rooster a man-fighter. Genetics can impact how much effort I must invest.

I have, and will say that in my setting it is not worth the effort because I have "depth" in available roosters. My focus is on preventing it from even starting which is pretty easy to do.

Here is yet another article to consider. https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/aggressive-behavior-by-the-male-chicken-directed-at-humans-man-fighting.75750/

Can you post a video of interactions?

And then there is hypothesis that how the rooster was parented that is backed up with lots of flowery writing although very little scientific support. There are genetics that effects odds of rooster being an issue with respect to aggression. And then there is where I can take any rooster...

I have kept lots of roosters, lots. Generally, it has not been a training approach as much as me not providing rewards for bad behavior. In most situations I have seen on this site, the training was taking the rooster in the wrong direction. And the rooster-keeper did not realize that and would...