Cabales Serrada Eskrima

Cabales Serrada Escrima is a system of Eskrima, a form of Filipino martial arts.
This fighting style was introduced in Stockton, California, United States in 1966. Serrada Eskrima utilizes the art of stickfighting as well as Espada y Daga techniques. Serrada eskrima is usually practiced at medium to close (also known as corto) range. The term Serrada means "to close" in Spanish, and Escrima or Eskrima means "to skirmish."
The Filipino founding father of Cabales Serrada Escrima was Angel Cabales (1917-1991). He was a disciple of Felicisimo Dizon. While the mysteries of Filipino stickfighting were still shrouded in secrecy in the remote South Pacific archipelagos, Angel Cabales emigrated east to the United States. Here he introduced his unique brand of self-defense, and became known as the "Father of Serrada Escrima in America".
In essence, the Cabales Serrada System of Escrima was designed as a form of personal defense, as well as a form of critical thinking. Within the past several decades countless martial artists worldwide have had the rare opportunity to train and to discover the skills, wisdom and close-range, stick and knife empty-hand strategies of Cabales Serrada Escrima.
Cabales Serrada Escrima, is a martial art indigenous to the islands of the Philippines. It was developed over 400 years ago out of necessity to protect themselves from foreign invaders. The foreign invaders had a large hand in developing the martial arts of the Philippines; saying Escrima covers a large number of styles or systems including Arnis, Doce Pares and Kali etc. These are family and barrio styles and systems that were kept secret, they governed a region or island in the Philippines. These styles of Escrima are very different. Some have a single long stick, some have two sticks, thirty to thirty six inches. Serrada Escrima utilizes a short six inch stick and also an arm length stick, that originates from a Spanish Style: Espada Y Daga or sword and dagger.
Angel Cabales
The Father of Escrima in the United States is Great Grandmaster Angel Cabales, and was born 1917 and passed on in 1991, and is the founder of Cabales Serrada Escrima. Born on the Island of Panay, in the Philippines, an island in the Vissayan Sea. At the age of 17 he moved to the Island of Cebu where he worked on the lawless docks and met his friend and coworker Felicisimo Dizon, who was his mentor in the Filipino martial arts of Escrima. His friend Felicisimo Dizon and four others practiced in the alleys and rooftops of Cebu City. Dizon's system of Escrima utilized 56 angles of attack, but Angel to eliminate redundancy, condensed the art down to 12 angles of attack. There are numerous counters for each angle. The three core drills (exclusive to Serrada) are: Three-step-drill, lock-n-block and "free-flow-sparring." There are empty hand fighting skills that translate from the technique learned in weapons training and the same techniques also translate to knife defenses. The empty hand grappling or dumog indigenous to the Philippines are also as devastating as the weapon portion of the art. Serrada is known as a close-range martial art, and is also known for the effectiveness of its countering abilities not seen in most other systems of martial arts, including the Filipino Martial Arts.

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