Posted by: Goliath
Big Trucker - 06/28/05 06:20 PM
This story happened when I was 15 at an end of the year BBQ with my Cadet unit. My commanding officer was a big (overweight) trucker. Not a very nice guy, and in my impression, somewhat racist. Essentially, he was a rubber stamp though, the past commanding officer was still running the show but her term had finished.
We were having a water fight and he got quite involved in it. He was pushing kids, wrestling water guns out of their hands, he even sat on a couple of kids. (The majority of these kids were between 12 and 16, the oldest age you can remain a cadet is 18). Needless to say, some people were uncomfortable with his actions.
I went to the shack in order to fill a bunch of water balloons. I held them all in my shirt as I walked. On my way back to the camp site, my CO starting poping them all was I struggled to get past. I took a knee and turtled to protect that last 2 or 3 I had left. He pressesd his enourmous weight on me and stuck his fat hands through the gaps in my arms.
The president of the parent association and my Training Officer were witness to this but stood by idle. At this point I was angry and decided that I wanted a little more than to defend my balloons. I flipped him over my right shoulder and applied a rear naked choke (not a very good one as I was a karateka and not a judo kai). He sputtered out, "if you don't let go of me, I'm going to get up, and hit you." I loosed my grip a bit, as he broke out I stood up and readied myself, hands down while there was still some distance between the two of us. He took two steps at me, looked at the parent and officer watching, and then walked away.
Was that an appropriate use of martial arts in your opinion? How would you have handled it? Keep in mind I was 15.
We were having a water fight and he got quite involved in it. He was pushing kids, wrestling water guns out of their hands, he even sat on a couple of kids. (The majority of these kids were between 12 and 16, the oldest age you can remain a cadet is 18). Needless to say, some people were uncomfortable with his actions.
I went to the shack in order to fill a bunch of water balloons. I held them all in my shirt as I walked. On my way back to the camp site, my CO starting poping them all was I struggled to get past. I took a knee and turtled to protect that last 2 or 3 I had left. He pressesd his enourmous weight on me and stuck his fat hands through the gaps in my arms.
The president of the parent association and my Training Officer were witness to this but stood by idle. At this point I was angry and decided that I wanted a little more than to defend my balloons. I flipped him over my right shoulder and applied a rear naked choke (not a very good one as I was a karateka and not a judo kai). He sputtered out, "if you don't let go of me, I'm going to get up, and hit you." I loosed my grip a bit, as he broke out I stood up and readied myself, hands down while there was still some distance between the two of us. He took two steps at me, looked at the parent and officer watching, and then walked away.
Was that an appropriate use of martial arts in your opinion? How would you have handled it? Keep in mind I was 15.
