Girl, 13 shields the attacker on Walk Home from the school with Jiu-Jitsu

A 13-year-old girl in California fought by a man who used his Jiu-Jitsu training and broke his ankle when he tried to attack her on her walk home from school.

Carmelia police, California, are now looking for the teenager’s attacker. Police say the suspect baked the girl by hiding between two parked cars and going out to hit her in the face, according to reporting from KESBWThe ABC7 and Kion.

For three years, the 13-year-old has taken Jiu-Jitsu classes at the Carmel Youth Center with Michael Blackburn, who teaches the center, Per ABC7. The teen used what she learned in her class when the man tried to attack her.

Jiu-Jitsu is a weaponless form of martial arts that focuses on dampening opponents who use common locks, chokeholders and leverage techniques such as throws and pins.

“She hit him, she got him in a head lock, kneeling him a couple of times, spun him around, threw him on the ground,” Blackburn said to the outlet. “She had walked on her foot to do all this, and when she threw him on the ground, he broke the ankle.”

The teenager could run home safely but her attacker is still loose. According to the local stores, the Carmel police have no solid leads on the man but has released a sketch of how they think he looks.

The suspect is believed to be about 6 meters long, muscular and now has an injury to his left foot supplied by the teenager who fought back, according to KSBW.

“We do everything we can to find out who this person (is who) is responsible for what happened,” Todd Trayer, the local police department’s commander, told the outlet. He added that the suspect may have been under the influence of a drug drug.

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Blackburn told the outlet that it broke his heart that his 13-year-old student needed to fight under the circumstances she made-but he told her he is proud of her.

“She did exactly what to do,” he said. “You have to fight in class as if you will protect yourself on the street.”

Blackburn told KSBW to know self -defense can save their life. “If a parent can get his child into a class, even if it is a weekend class, to learn something, it is so advantageous because there is so much out there nowadays that it is really scary.”