a) A natural talent at doing something means nothing. Quite often a natural talent at doing something makes it harder to teach, as you do things, well, naturally, without knowing how to do them, or worse, how to teach other people to do them. I'm not saying that it means you shouldn't, just that it means nothing.
b) Again, understanding the need to teach safety isn't the same as knowing what safety to teach, or how to teach it. And having insurance in place is nice, but it still isn't the same as not being injured for the person who is hurt. I'm not saying that you don't, but again, just trying to make you aware of the consequences.
c) To be honest, I don't know that completing any of the two 'formal' MJ teaching courses that I know about is any qualification for teaching anything other than beginner moves. Experience of teaching, being taught by more experienced people, and suchlike are what matters more. There are some very good (well, I think that they are good!) teachers of such things, who've never done any qualification either. There are also some very bad ones. Who's friends probably told them that they were ideally suited to teach such things.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't teach. Just that I think that having a few friends say that you should, isn't the first place to go about doing it. Why don't you talk to your local organiser (or other experienced person), and see what they think?
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