Cabales Serrada Escrima, GMAA

G**o Tony Rivers funeral is arranged for 11:30 on Tuesday the 23rd at the chapel, bethania road in Acrefair.

It's with great sadness to announce, G**o Tony Rivers passed away this morning after a long battle with Parkinson's. I'm absolutely gutted 😞

Happy New Year to all my family, friends and students

Merry Christmas, hope my family, friends and students have a wonderful time

Welcome to the Gagnon Martial Arts Academy



We teach, promote and preserve the Filipino martial arts of

GM Angel Cabales and GM Leo Giron.

All are welcome 18 yrs and above

The GMAA is based in Wrexham. We specialise in blade and empty hands self defence. The arts we teach are combat proven and highly respected. We have direct linage to GM Angel Cabales, GM Leo Giron & Sifu Dave Carnell.



We have 4 levels you progress through, students, graduates, G**o and Master.



The students curriculum is split into beginner, intermediate phase one, intermediate phase two,

advanced phase one and advanced phase two. All testing is informal and at your own pace.



All student testing is free of charge.



Graduates are students that have passed evaluation on the club curriculum. This is done under

pressure and demonstrates a basic level of proficiency.



Our G**o curriculum contains Defondo, Silat, the Wooden Dummy (basics, Wing Chun form, JKD form).

They also are taught how to teach the students curriculum. All fully trained G**os will be proficient

with the above.



Masters



Highly dedicated G**os will be invited to complete Cabales Serrada Escrima Masters training.





Basic information:



Jeet Kune Do

From your first lesson you are taught basic combative principles which are simple, direct and non

classical. Economy of motion, body mechanics, speed, timing & aggression combined with sensitivity.

The JKD curriculum includes:

Jun Fan Boxing

Don Chi/Lop Sau/Chi Sau

Trapping

Foot Work/Evasion

Five ways of attack

Pad work

Wooden dummy

Reflex drills

Grappling

Sparring



Filipino Escrima

We teach Cabales Serrada Escrima and Giron Arnis Escrima (Bahala Na)

Curriculum includes:

Angles of attack 1 to 12

Basic/advanced counters

Lock & Block

Sparring

Disarms/Reversals

Cadena de Mano

Sensitivity training

Guntings

Locks

Defondo

Largo Mano

Happy 70th birthday, to my teacher GM Ron Saturno. Hope you have a lovely day from all your UK students 😀

Congratulations to Jon Flowerday on his promotion to G**o

Congratulations to Tom Walker on his promotion to Master. 10 years of hard work, well done 👍

Congratulations to Jon Flowerday for passing the wooden dummy forms 👏

Mike's celebration of life is at the C**k O' Barton on February 20th 13:00 to 16:00
Ps the photo below is my favorite of him. It shows his awesome sense of humor 👍

On November 8th 2014 my teacher passed away. He will never be forgotten R.I.P Sifu Dave Carnell

https://youtu.be/To3YtPQR4mg

Evaluation 7.10.22 Jon Flowerday
Multiple Hits

Evaluation 7.10.22 Multiple hits with Jon Flowerday

Congratulations to all students who put themselves forward for evaluation.
Jon Flowerday passed

Stockton Multi-Style Graduation Class, April 2022. (L-R) Alex Navarro, Len Triano, Allen Duong, Leo Salas, Michelle Joven, Frank Woods.

8 years since G**o Gareth passed away 😞

Congratulations to G**o Tom Walker for passing the Jun Fan & Jeet Kune Do wooden dummy forms

Congratulations to G**o Tom Walker for passing the Wooden Man basics.

GM Vincent Cabales

Cabales Serrada Escrima GM Vincent Cabales strike 5 HD Grandmaster Vincent Cabales working with an instructor on some basic strike 5 counters.

The new club opening hours are

Wednesday 8 to 10pm @ Glyndwr University Sports Centre

Friday 7 to 9pm @ Rossett Village Hall, Station Rd, Rossett

We are hoping to open the club on Wednesday 11th August 8 to 10pm 😁

7 years ago G**o Gareth Utting passed away, he is greatly missed.......