When an over enthusiastic person joins your club and tries to ingratiate themselves really quickly you have to be careful.

Red flags can be:

Being too friendly and trying to command attention in class.

Using unnecessary titles to flatter you that you don’t use, like ‘Master’, ‘Shihan’ and attaching themselves to them on here like “my Tai Chi Master….”

Volunteering to take on tasks and/or trying to form business partnerships using your background to their advantage.

Trying to include you in their social life and pushing themselves into yours.

Doing unnecessary favours without being asked.

Gossiping to separate students and pit one instructor against the other, always behind their back.

Teaching for 50 years, I have loads of examples but to protect the guilty, won’t give them.

Normally your gut instinct will tell you that they’re not genuine, but flattery and not wanting drive them off on a gut instinct means you can leave it too long.

Be careful.