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To be formed to teach the taijiquan, what a venture ! To teach is first to intensify and deepen your own practice, then to acquire the essential tools for the teaching. In the life it is necessary to dare, to run risks, to follow your impulses, your dashes but it is appropriate to ask some elementary questions so that the dream goes on, asserts and does not become a nightmare.

• Which are my motivations and those of the school which I represent?
• Which are my aptitudes and qualifications?
• Is this a positive choice, either an escape or because I don't have anything else ?
• If j’observe the other professors of the school, does this way bring them to a better integration or on the contrary to a marginalisation?
• Are The other teachers always "en amour" (in love) with their discipline ("amateur" comes from "amare" : to love) or are they lost in a profusion of disciplines ?
  Is money a means or an goal ?
• Am I dependent to it partially or completely to live ?
• Would I let allure by great misleading promises, "recognized diplomas", "statute of professor", "channels"," profitability ",...?
• Did I consider the preceding points well : filiations, titles, program, advanced techniques, quality?

Every point must be seriously considered before launching out in the teaching. If you are already engaged in a practice, they can be used to make an assessment, if required to reorientate yourself before having reached a nonreturn point. When some mechanisms are set since too long, it is very difficult, even impossible to modify them, without a considerable energy. To become captive d’un skimpy and restrictive system is always disapointing. Ces few points constitute reference marks, beacons. Do not set them up in dogmas ! It would be contrary to the spirit of the practice. Each step must be approached, integrated, assimilated and finally exceeded.