I put him in a neck crank and didn't let go when he tapped.
I was demonstrating an escape form the mount, and I had him mount me so I could show the class. When I got done, he slammed my shoulders down to the mat and dropped his weight like he wanted to fight. He'd played that game before, and I always corrected him on the spot - sometimes verbally, and sometimes "ballistically." I was in no mood to be screwed with, especially by someone who was trying to boost his own ego by trying to take advantage of me in front of my own class. Bottom line was, I'd given him the mount so I could show the escape, and he tried to take advantage of a superior position he wouldn't have gotten otherwise. So I told him that if he insisted on continuing, I was going to get out of the position and hurt him. He just dropped his weight and said something like "Go ahead and try." So I did. I mounted him and slapped on a front neck crank. I made him tap maybe forty or fifty times and then finally let go when I was tired of listening to him whine. It was maybe two years before I heard from him again. When he called after those two years, he was drunk and he told me he closed down his school, quit training, quit teaching, and became a massage therapist. He said I'd broken his neck that night (didn't expand on how, exactly, or what part broke), and he still had to see a chiropractor for it, but that he "forgave me." I felt bad that it took that kind of lesson to get the message across, but I mean it when I tell you I tried EVERYTHING else. I talked to him, I worked him over in classes, I threw him out, and I even knocked him out a few times. He just always came back smelling like beer and acting like an asshole. So I broke his neck. No guilt, and no remorse. He had all the warnings I knew how to give him.
He never bullied any of my students again, though.
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