Nope. That makes you human

You should have taken him by the ear to the local police station and turned him in for underage drinking.

And then yell "Get off my lawn!"

I don't think I would classify your actions as bullying. The kid deserves worse.

Class started at 7:30pm. Kid was nearly falling down drunk.

As long as you didn't sweep the legs, then you're not a bully.

The more important question is - was he any good drunk ?

If the choices are to give him a bit of physical contact when you knew he was incapacitated, or call him out on his stupid action, I'm pretty sure you picked the option that the kid would've wanted you to pick.

Really being a bully would've been to alert the authorites and generally mess up the kid's life vis a vis, an MIP (or public drunkenness, depending on your local state's laws).

I think you did the kid a huge favor.

You beat me to it. I only consider it to be bullying if the victim is forcibly relieved of lunch money.

In you're case you're just teaching the whipper snapper a valuable lesson; "not everybody is going to be polite enough to refrain from beating the crap out of you when you're drunk"

If you pretended not to notice his lack of coordination and taken great advantage of it, then maybe. But since you didn't say anything about blackening both his eyes, rupturing his testicle or splitting his lip open, I think your love taps speak for themselves....

You didn't do enough.

That wasn't the case with this kid. The most frustrating part was that he couldn't seem to respond even to the most basic instructions. How freaking tough is it to throw a jab/cross/hook/cross combination? How tough is it to remember to protect your chin by keeping it tucked into your shoulder? How tough is it to remember to protect your jaw?

Now, even when I'm working with someone completely sober, I'll toss in the occasional counter when I'm holding the mitts and I don't think they're paying attention. I may have done that a couple times to this kid as well resulting in some boxed ears and some red marks on his forehead, but I resisted the temptation to knock him on his can with a full on pop in his wide open jaw.

It might be disrespectful to the gym but it's not your place to punish him for that. So yeah. Bully.

It's also not helping YOU any. It takes more strength and discipline to land a solid, precise, fast blow while maintaining enough control not to cause "discomfort" to the other person than to put on a little "heat."

You played that Rockstar game didnt you. Well, even if you didnt play it, maybe you read about it. That's enough to tranform you. It's all Rockstars fault. Making Bully's outta people by titleing a piece of electronic entertainment "Bully" and then marketing it.

I'm totally kidding. The guy wasted your time and showed disrespect showing up in that way. Maybe he learned a lesson that if he wants to over-indulge like that on his own time, then that's fine, but don't be bringing it to the gym where it affects other people (with schedule's) enjoyment of their hobby. He's just lucky it wasnt Kukri 101.

I don't know if you are or aren't a bully, but I do think you are now well prepared for the next time a drunk picks a fight with you.

Well, as I was just studying this in my Child Psych class, bullying requires one important element. It has to happen repeatedly. So, if every week, you have decided to punish this kid, then, yeah, you are a bully. But in this case, you were just kind of a jerk. I think you are pretty clear that you sent out some seriously negative vibes. While you may have intended to teach this kid a lesson, you just may have taught him one you were not intending.

That said, Bob Gibson was my favorite pitcher. He dealt out a few lessons of his own.

A martial arts school is a training place for fighters. If you come in and you are not prepared to fight, you should not be there. Being offensively dirty, or ignoring instructions, that sort of thing is disrespectful to the school. That's one thing and it's usually easily corrected with a short discussion.

But coming into a place where you know you can be hit at any time, and in a condition where you can't control your own actions to the degree required is not just disrespectful, but an utter provocation. Most sifus or sensei's I know would toss a student out for that, no questions asked. The risk that they could hurt someone, or be hurt, is bad enough. But to come to a place of learning in a state where there's no way you can learn, when the topic is controlled violence, is just unconscionable. It's no different from showing up for your driving lesson wasted, and the response should be no less draconian. Who wants to train someone with that little self-control?

Maybe sit him out back to think about it and sober up the first time. You don't want him to get busted for driving home (never mind how he got there.) But that's pretty merciful for a school of conflict. In my opinion, the worst thing to do is to let him participate - the chances of his being hurt or injuring someone is way too high.