The Ngok Gar Dotting Hands are not difficult to learn forms. In fact, they are fairly easy to learn.

So why not teach students right away? Why waste their time with other forms?

One reason is that if the forms are taught to students easily they would not appreciate them. However, if you make them jump through hoops to be given the privilege to learn students would appreciate the learning opportunity so much more, and hence train seriously.

You begin the learning of the Dotting Hands by learning the 7-Points Dotting Hand sequence. As its name implies there are but 7 movements in the sequence.

These 7 movements can be learned under 5 minutes. Thereafter, its just a matter of practicing the sequence over and over until you are familiar with it.

From this point on you will find that you can actually go through the 7 movements super fast. But being fast is only one of the many learning objectives.

The next objective is to learn what each movement means. At this point it would be advantageous to rope in a partner to help you train. The role of the partner is to feed you the attacks to train your reaction, your timing, your awareness, and so on.

At this point your training of the sequence is not done. You next want to keep at it until you find the natural body movement that follows the movements of the technique.

The body movement will add power and range to your blocking and striking. The body movement also has the role of teaching you how to adjust your body to assist in attack and defence.

If you can find the body movements then the next part will come easily. This is where you can add in the use of stances. Once you get the hang of using the stances you can begin to learn how to step.

So far so good as far as learning how to use one single hand. Don’t forget to work the other hand also.

The next part of the learning is to add in the other hand. The hand doing the 7 movements can be considered the dominant hand and the other hand the supporting hand. This is the basic training for learning the two handed Dotting Hands forms.

There’s still more that can be learned from the single hand sequence but I think this should be sufficient to occupy a beginner for a while.