Last Wednesday, on July 18, the 23-year-old was filmed hurrying down a residential road in Recanto das Emas in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, around 12:47pm, when a car drove past and appeared to stop around the corner at the bottom of the road.

Security cameras show that seconds later a man appears and runs towards the student, with his hand by his waist demanding she hands over her phone.

It's believed the alleged gunman jumped out of the white Renault Sandero which was parked on the corner.

Braga said: "Everything happened so quickly, and I wasn't thinking straight. But I just didn't want to hand over my cell phone.

"I told him I was not going to give it to him because this was the second time I had been robbed. He grabbed my hand and started pulling my hair. He pointed the gun at me and said he was going to shoot me.'

She said the threat came in the midst of the fight, but the moment she saw the weapon she remembered thinking it was 'super thin".

"It looked like a plastic toy and I instantly thought, this gun is a toy, it's not real. I didn't want to fight but on the last occasion I hadn't reacted and I think I was a bit fed up with being in the same position again," she added acknowledging she is not an arms expert and didn't sincerely know whether the revolver was real or not.

"I didn't have a comparison and haven't had a real gun pointed at me before, so I must have reacted on instinct," she said, admitting that while it was foolhardy it was the right thing to do on this occasion.

She revealed she has been practising Morganti Jiu-Jitso for 18 months and said her skills kicked in.

She said: "My training came to the fore instantly"

"When he pulled away, I saw that it was the ideal moment to fight back, I got into my stance and delivered several kicks."

The first kick hit the bandit's face and the other blows landed on his body. 

She even ran after the attacker but stopped when he jumped into the car.

The victim told police there were two women waiting in the vehicle which sped off. Further up the road an elderly woman sweeping the street outside her property looked on but didn't get involved.

But police warned the victim's actions were ill-advised as she could have been wrong and 'no object is worth a life, so it's better to surrender and not react."

Jujutsu, also known in the West as Ju-Jitsu or Jiu-Jitsu, is a Japanese martial art and a method of close combat for defeating an armed and armored opponent in which one uses either a short weapon or none. 

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