This guy wasn't exactly my bully, we were both 16,new to college and he was throwing his weight around. He was a big guy from a fairly rough background and I was also a big guy but quiet and fairly gentle.

I had a couple of run ins with him, pushing me around along with other people and generally being a bit of a pain. Then one day I was walking out of class at lunch time and he had decided to show how tough he was by setting up a little wrestling ring on the grass by the classrooms and challenging every bloke he saw to a wrestling match. He tried to make out I was afraid of him and as I watched I saw that he was big, powerful and utterly untrained and also, he did stick to the rules, he wasn't punching or getting cheap shots in but he did win everything fairly easily.

I had been doing judo for years and was about the same size so I agreed to have a few bouts with him. He hit the ground 3 times in a row and was laughed at by everyone there. He left rather humiliated and never threw his weight around again.

The nice side of it is that a day or so later he approached me and said respect for doing that, nobody had done that to him before and we became mates but he never again tried to bully anyone. I think he was just insecure and wanted to find his place. Once he became friends with me and my mates he had found his place and didn't need to act like that anymore.