Eskrima Kombat

Alongside Edith Garrud and Emily Diana Watts, Phoebe Roberts (1887-1955) must be accounted as one of the first female jiujitsu instructors in the Western world.  She was certainly the youngest; Miss Roberts began training at the tender age of fifteen, circa 1904. Within a year or two she had started to teach classes at the … Continue reading “Miss Phoebe Roberts, “Champion Lady Ju-Jitsu Wrestler of the World””