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Filipino eskrima master, founder of Cabales Serrada Eskrima and of the first Eskrima school in the United States, in Stockton, California; known as the Father of Eskrima in the United States.

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Graciela Casillas

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Frederico Muñoz

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“Casillas trained under Grandmaster Angel Cabales and became the first woman instructor for Cabales Serrada Eskrima.”

— Graciela Casillas - Wikipedia (English). Wikipedia (English)link history info

Sources

“Through his Stockton-based school—the first Eskrima school in the U.S.—he preserved Filipino martial arts traditions”

— (2026-06). PCG San Francisco Honors Filipino Grandmaster Angel Cabaleslink history info

Cabales Serrada Eskrima - FMA Pulselink history info

Krishna Godhania. (2012). Eskrima: Filipino Martial Artinfo

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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Angel Cabales. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M5FJCW4HWXDDF4MJ0EEM0FDV - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.

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