13-year-old girl attacked by grown man used jiu-jitsu skills to break his ankle and fight him off, police say.
Blaze: Her instructor said she has been training for three years.
California police are looking for a man who allegedly tried to attack a 13-year-old girl but ended up with a broken ankle after she fought him off with jiu-jitsu.
The incident unfolded on May 6 at Carmel-by-the-Sea as the girl was walking home, according to Michael Blackburn, her jiu-jitsu instructor, who spoke with KSBW-TV.
“Halfway home, a gentleman was standing in between two cars, and he stepped out to punch her in the face,” said Blackburn. more
“The man, however, got away.”
THAT SAYS IT ALL
AWESOME, GIRL!!
“The man, however, got away.”
Well done, let’s do some more training then.
Bull Shit. Unless the guy was a total panty waste. This sounds like an advertisement for a DoJo that got out of control
This made me think about the eleven year old Alabama boy who shot an intruder and then told the news reporter that the intruder cried like a baby. https://youtu.be/clW2jtv6qFc?t=32
I took Taekwondo and Hapkido in my mid 20s. My school had all ages from 10 and up, and the young kids would free-spar with each other and then adults. As they progressed through the lessons (some had taken them for years) they were just as competent in their moves as any of the adults. Some would spar with the men and they didn’t make it easy on them.
“Bullshit”…yeah, something is off with this caper.
The police sketch looks like a comic book villain, and the broken ankle? C’mon, man. And that dojo guy…I dunno.
Was the alleged attacker a midget, and the girl built like Lizzo?
True martial arts practitioners use their opponent’s own energy against them. It is a very different style than street fighting, and thus difficult for those who don’t know the moves to understand how an ankle biter (or breaker) can go up against someone twice their size and prevail.
^^^^ Oh please. Martial arts schools are a total joke. Particularly Taekwondo. It’s a money making racket for well to do white mothers thinking they’re teaching their kids self defense. Brazilian Jujitsu being the one exception.
Wow. “..well to do white mothers…”
As a matter of fact I am well off white mother and #1 daughter earned her black belt in tae kwan do by the ripe old age of 10. I enrolled her after her first day of kindergarten in order to deal with a bully and it worked. But I wasn’t the only white mom. We had black and Asian families and their kids, too. Not sure how being “well to do” figures into anything, except being some sort of broad brush put down. The trainer was an Olympic competitor who was a tough task master. I don’t think the cost was prohibitive to the average family.
…sounds like you had a bad experience, maybe?
Just one more topic where Brad knows everything.
Had a home intruder once, and had so much trouble with lawyers and courts when I threw the guy out, I pledged next time they’d never find the next one’s head or hands. No problem since. Old wells come in handy.
IMO Brad is pretty accurate in his assessment of kiddie martial arts. My wife and I had a little trouble in school with both of my boys getting “bullied” and getting into scraps in general, so we tried the dojo, mainly to see if we could get them to exercise restraint when provoked. What we found was that in sparring, the “winner” was determined by personality, not skill. And dojo was no help in developing restraint.
My oldest had piss poor technique, but he went into every match will a grin on his face, absorbed a lot of flailing and dodged some silly kicking, while getting his street licks in. He was there for fun. My youngest also had poor technique (they both goofed around during training time) and he had a hair trigger temper. He didn’t dodge anything, but the first hard punch or kick he got would set him off, and he’d go to town on the other kid, regardless of size.
And size didn’t matter much. Half of the kids didn’t want to be there and had no interest in fighting. They were going to get their asses kicked, in school or out of school. Another quarter of the class were game for sparring, but didn’t care much for technique and never went for the kill. My oldest, the happy warrior, was in this group.
The last quarter of the class were aggressive and determined. Some had good technique, some didn’t. When a match between a couple of these started, technique didn’t matter; it was all about landing punches and kicks, but mostly punches, and not much dancing and dodging. And it never looked much like martial arts , except for the gear and costumes.
Also, there weren’t many girls there, and most of them dropped out pretty quickly. My daughter had zero interest in dojo, and my wife didn’t make her do it. My oldest boy, who was bigger, would always go easy on the girls as he smiled his way through a match, but my youngest showed no such restraint if his girl sparring partner got in a good shot. She’d get pummeled just like any boy. And those girls usually were bigger and had higher belts than him.
We finally quit after about eighteen months, when one day we came in and there was a neighbor boy, who was a sneaky sucker-punching coward, all suited up for class. We had trouble with him in the neighborhood and on the school bus. He was older and bigger than my youngest, and he was always starting shit with my youngest. Pretty soon my youngest and that kid had a match. It didn’t go well for the other kid.
After that my youngest asked me, “Can we quit dojo? I can don’t need to know this stuff to fight.” My wife and I and I both agreed that it was time to move on. Both my boys got into the occasional fight all the way through middle school, but nobody went to the hospital and nobody got expelled. And nobody’s ankle ever got broken.
All of this is to say that for most people, kiddie martial arts is a waste of time and money. Kids are who they are and dojo won’t change that. And it’s not cheap. We still have two big dojo gym bags in the basement full of gear and rolled up belts. I keep telling my wife that nobody wants that stuff and to take it to Goodwill, but that’s another story.
glad the girl is ok, quick question tho….if he got away how do we know the ankle was/is broken ?
DC, that’s what I was wondering. It sounds like some embellishment or outright fabrication by the girl to me. And the police, while concerned about some sort of confrontation/attack, no doubt have their own suspicions.
And if the attacker’s ankle is really broken, he could have limped away on adrenaline, bit he’d have to show up in an ER soon after. Again, police are no doubt on top of this.
I have a young friend who got her third degree black belt in karate when she was 23. She invited me to the ceremony. There were four people advancing at the ceremony, two teenage boys, my friend, and her brother.
When the two teenagers were demonstrating their moves together, it was slow-motion choreography. When my friend and her brother were demonstrating their moves, it was a hands-on slap-a-then. You could here them whacking the daylights out of each other.
There are all kinds of vids on utoob showing girls and women fighting off men. Men will under estimate their prey and not be ready for the response.
I’m wondering how many fist fights that well to do white woman AA has been in?
“As a matter of fact I am well off white mother and #1 daughter earned her black belt in tae kwan do by the ripe old age of 10.”
Thanks for making my point for me. Did you ever ask yourself if she was capable of defending herself? I know the answer to that. It’s a money making scheme to give well to do white women a false sense of security. And street fights are not choreographed. If your kids a shitty athlete martial arts won’t fix that.
“Just one more topic where Brad knows everything.”
Well I do know a little bit about this. Why not tell me where I’m wrong coward?