EagleScout316

Realize that before you throw a frisbee off of Mt. Phillips, your Scoutmaster will tell you to retrieve it. Grumping in the woods isprobably the most comfortable thing known to man...until you realize you left your toilet paper back at the camp, and are forced to use pine cones. Doing jumping jacks atop Mt. Baldy is a quick way to a heart attack or stroke. Walking off by yourself affords you many interesting things...like getting yelled at. Those Toughman contests have nothing to do with how tough you are; merely, how loud and obnoxious your group can scream in approval o

Whoopety doo, I am new! Well, I'm an Eagle Scout from the north side of Chicago, but since I'm attending Bradley University, I've recently become an Assistant Scoutmaster for a troop out here. -ES3:16

Well, I must say that I really don't allign something the likes of corporal punishment with something like that of calisthenics; I've always seen it as spanking or whipping and such. Corporal punishment has been generally defined as: the infliction of pain by a teacher or other official upon the body of a youth as a penalty for doing something which has been disapproved by the punisher. I really don't see calisthenics as a type of shame; I do the workouts right along with them, so that they don't feel out of place. In the sense of pain, doing pushups or squats is similar to walking a mile;

I've done Trail Crew 2 years ago, and I was planning to do both OAVoyage and OASeaBase this summer; however, Sea Base is completely filled, so I'll just be doing Voyage. They are all great trips, and really make a man out of you. -Bragging rights: we hiked over Mt. Baldy in full packs!

I gotta say, from experience growing up around Chicago, that banning a kid from ever coming back to something is not the cure to a problem; the kid becomes vindictive, and may very well end up joining a street gang (now he's become more of a problem than he was). Just recently, I've become an Assistant Scoutmaster of a troop out here in Peoria, Il, while attending Bradley University; they are a great bunch of kids, but not without their disputes, of course. On a campout we went on last weekend, problems ranged from kicking each other while hiking in a straight line, tapping each other w