During the last 2 years with Yang style Sifu, as the class was going downhill, and new student showed up and was immediately allowed in the advanced class. He claimed to have extensive previous training in Traditional Yang Tai Chi, various tai chi styles, various Qi Gong styles and other assorted martial arts. After his first class it was obvious to all advanced students he had little experience in anything. Shortly afterwards there was a small group of beginners advanced to the advanced class. This person who claimed great training began to act very arrogant around the other new students and continually telling them how much he knew and how good he was. He also began pushing many of them around when they started push hands (bullying), because he of course had trained with several very advanced push hands masters and the people he was picking on knew nothing about push hands or martial arts for that matter.
All that were in the advanced class, before he arrived, ignored him for the most part and felt it was up to our Sifu to handle the situation. After this went on for a couple of months some of us talked to our sifu about it. He said he knew but the guy wouldn’t listen so he let him go.
After a few more weeks this self proclaimed master felt confident enough to spread his arrogance to the senior students.
The first student he challenged was senior to me and did most of assistant training to beginners. He did not avoid the challenge, he meant it head on and threw this guy all over the room. After that my fellow student went and talked to sifu and once again sifu did nothing. This senior student never returned and a week later another senior student stopped coming. My challenge came a couple of weeks later.
I became the second person he challenged to push hands, since I was the one doing much of the push hands training of the new students in the class at that time. I was able to avoid this challenge for a couple of weeks.
Finally I had no choice, he was interfering with what I was showing others and my sifu was ignoring the situation. When we did push hands I let him go as long as I could, until he decided to kick it up notch change it to free style push hands by throwing a punch. The punch missed, he then used all his force to attack my center. I absorbed his attack and bounced him back about 6 feet, he was done doing push hands with me. His arrogance and bragging seemed to subside after that. But he tried the same with another senior student, a women about 1/2 of his size about 3 weeks later, I was not in class. She was much gentler than I and was able to control him. After that he calmed down for many months. Just before I left my sifu for the last time Mr Arrogamt had started up again by correcting people’s form, when his form was far from correct.
Ironically he is a student of my current Sifu (CMC Tai Chi and Xingyi) as well. However he is far from arrogant there. I believe if he was he would find himself sparing this sifu so he is much more demure in this school.
Ultimately I feel it is up to the teacher to control this type of thing. My Jujitsu teacher spared with the arrogant ones, they weren’t arrogant long. My Yang style teacher, when I first started, asked one arrogant student that refused to listen, to leave. Even my Wushu teacher had talks with these types of students. I honestly do not remember any arrogant students in my TDK class, but that was very Korean type training and I think we all new better
artyon: 
Just Kidding! lol :lol: 
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