I was in 6th grade. We were in PE playing dodgeball and the rule was that if you were out, you went to the back of the other team's side, so you could throw balls at them from behind. And once the teacher thinks the game is getting too long or wants to mix it up, he blows the whistle, and you can cross the halfway point. As you can tell, the games are fast and people get out really quick. I end up being the last guy left, vs around 4-5 people, so there is about 12+ people behind me.

At this point, there is so much heat being thrown at me, I have no time to even pick up the balls and fire back, I'm only trying to survive and grab the balls that end up close to me and quickly throw them to my dead teammates (once the whistle is blown, you generally try to be on the other side so instead your teammates are behind you, but when you get chased down you end up everywhere). The game had at least 8 balls in play so I was constantly dodging multiple throws simultaneously. With the adrenaline from the fear of being hit from both sides and being chased, I'm literally doing half cartwheels and rolling on the floor and juking, using the ball I was holding to deflect things etc. and I swear I was in some superhuman hyper awareness state. I manage to survive alone for what was probably 2 minutes (which is longer than the entire game usually goes) and took out 2 people myself, until point blank a guy pegs me right in the face as I turn around to look behind me. I didn't even get to see how many people were left on their team because I was stunned from the hit and as I was recovering, I got rushed by the class.

The physical part of the game was crazy but completely possible BUT after I was out, my classmates (from both teams) picked me up like I was crowd surfing and was chanting my name. Not to mention, I was Asian, so I wasn't the most popular kid in class. Guys who used to pick on me, girls who made fun of me, this one kid who used to beat me up on the bus and one day threw away my cellphone and poured chocolate milk in my bag, all of them were doing it. I earned their respect, I started getting picked early when picking teams etc. It was like the end of a feel good coming of age movie.