What part of LA are you in?
For Filipino arts you can't get any better than the Inosanto Academy in Marina Del Rey:
http://inosanto.com/index.php
BobbyD has studied there so perhaps he can chime in.
Richard Bustillo's IMB Academy is in Torrance. A student of Dan Inosanto and many other masters, this is also a good place. A friend of mine went there some years back and had nothing but good to say about it.
http://www.imbacademy.com/index2a.html
Good luck.