This Alice Springs teenager with special martial arts talent has eyes on policing

At an Aboriginal town camp in the Central Australian desert, teenager Chrissie Davis knows how to fight, but not all the locals believe it.

The 19-year-old is better known in Alice Springs for her talents on the footy field, and few people know she is also a karate expert who packs a punch like Bruce Lee.

“Sometimes when I go back home in my karate uniform some people walk past and they see me … and they ask me, ‘are you really into karate?'” Chrissie said.

After six years of training, she has notched a black belt in Shotokan Karate, the martial art’s highest rank, and it is raising eyebrows in the Ilpere Ilpere town camp where she lives.

“Some [people] you tell them, but they wouldn’t believe it,” said Chrissie’s father, Stephen.