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Angel Cabales

Filipino eskrimador (1917–1991), creator of the Serrada Escrima system, who in 1966 opened the first public eskrima school in the United States, in Stockton.

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Date of Birth1917
Date of Death1991
Country of OriginUnited StatesUnited States

Biography

Angel Cabales was an eskrimador, creator of the Serrada Escrima system (Cabales Serrada Escrima). He was born in 1917 in the Philippines and died in 1991. In 1939 he moved to the United States.

He was taught the martial art at the port of Manila by Felisimo Dizon; the training covered stick fighting, knife fighting and empty-hand combat.

In 1966 he founded the first public eskrima school in the United States, in Stockton, California. Serrada Escrima is a close-range (corto) style built on a 60/40 stance; according to the source, it is meant to produce a competent eskrimador in 6 to 12 months and a master in 3 years. His students included Mike Inay.

The source calls him the "father of eskrima in the United States."

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Filipino eskrima of Angel Cabales for close-range fighting with a short stick. His 1966 school in Stockton was, according to Wiley, the first public one in the USA.