SHE’S ONLY six years old but she’ll kick you to the kerb.

Georgie Webb is such a fighter than she’s battled her own disabilities to win a national martial arts award with her karate skills.

Georgie, who lives in Grove with her mum Amie and dad Christopher, has been learning karate for a year and just started at Millbrook Primary School in the village.

But things could have been very different.

When she was ten months old, she was diagnosed with craniosynostosis, a condition where the plates in a baby’s skull fuse together too early, causing deformities and potentially brain damage if left untreated.

At just 17 months she underwent a four-hour operation at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital, where she had her forehead and the top of her head remodelled by a plastic surgeon.

Georgie’s parents were told to expect her to be very sedate when she came round from the general anaesthetic.

But Mrs Webb remembered: “This was not quite true for Georgie who stood up in her cot, wanting to be up and about, and started pulling out various tubes that she was attached to.”

After eight days in hospital Georgie came home and Mrs Webb said: “You wouldn’t have known she’d just had a major operation that would have meant a month in hospital for an adult.”

Georgie had a further operation to remove wires which were in her skull that were causing her pain and another to monitor pressure inside her skull.

During the last operation she suffered a minor bleed on the brain, but it fortunately had no lasting effect.

However, she has now been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder – ADHD – and sensory processing issues which may be linked to her craniosynostosis, and which certainly make everyday life more difficult.

Mrs Webb said: “With all the diagnostic appointments, check ups, pre-ops and operations, Georgie has been through a lot, but faces it all with courage.

“That is why training at karate is such a triumph. She participates fully, is determined and shows true fighting spirit despite her difficulties.”

Georgie learns Goju Ryu karate once a week at Grove Martial Arts juniors, a club run by her grandfather Ivan Webb, great grandfather Peter Lord and her own dad. And she doesn’t just train – she wins.

Georgie and her family travelled to the first national martial arts awards for fighters with disabilities – Warriors Assemble: The Fighting Spirit – in Shropshire on October 24.

She was crowned a “super-kid” alongside just three others from across the UK.

Her grandfather Ivan Webb said: “It’s absolutely brilliant, we’re proud of her. Karate gives her something to focus on, it gives her discipline, and she enjoys it.”