Stand with your feet apart parallel to the shoulder with both toes pointing forward.   The knees should be straight, the waist and the body facing forward.  Hands are on waist level and the hands should hold the sticks on both sides.  The ready stance is commonly used when standing at ease during training or tournaments.

Almost all martial arts has strikes and striking techniques, there are many strike and combination of strikes in martial arts that utilizes parts of the body ranging from punches, kicks, back fist, knife hand, elbow, and knee among others. It can start as a single strike then develops to two, three and four combination strikes until it becomes multiple strikes.

For Filipino Martial Arts, weapon strikes are also included aside from empty hands strike. Reason being the Filipino Martial Arts heavily uses weapons for training.  Even though the most common training weapon used is the rattan stick the term "weapon" can also refer to short weapon (knife, karambit, dulo dulo, balisong, etc) , long weapon (swords, bolo, parang, kukri, etc), empty hand (fist, knife hand, elbow, knee, kick, etc), improvised weapon (umbrella, bags, pens, handkerchief, etc) and other form of martial arts weapon.