From ‘Icebergs Instead Of Mountains’ available in the next couple of weeks on the links below…..

Preface by Bryan Andrews Chairman of the Governing Body for Chinese Martial Arts in Britain.
I’ve known Steve Rowe for over 32 years now, as a personal student of his taking regular private lessons with him and initially training on his courses and then later helping him on those courses. Although holding 9th Dans in karate and kung fu, he’s not like many senior masters. Steve does not follow to the way of ‘monkey see monkey do,’ rather his approach is to teach the principles and underlying theory behind the art. Some older readers will recall Steve’s columns in the martial arts magazines, his ‘voice from the deep’ caused me, even before I met him, to question and analyse my own martial arts training and ideas. After nearly 45 years of training every private lesson I have with Steve, there are more questions and more analysis to be done. It seems that when I start to feel that ‘I’m getting it’ he uncovers another layer to add more depth to a principle that we’ve been working on.

The thing that I admire about Steve is his ability to demystify the martial arts. He very clearly in this book sets out his ideas and concepts in a manner that we can all understand and do. He talks about tai chi as a way of self defence against physical attacks and is a firm advocate and adherent to the benefits of it helping the student become emotionally intelligent and mindful as a panacea against the stress and anxiety that we all face from time to time.

In my role as chair of the British Council for Chinese Martial Arts, it has been encouraging to see many practitioners of traditional Japanese and Korean martial arts along with stylists from styles such as kickboxing and Krav Maga, through his coaching programme become students of tai chi and then in time coaches in their own right, spreading the word about the efficacy of Chinese martial arts and tai chi in particular.

This book is a masterpiece of knowledge and wisdom, I’ve been fortunate over the years, along with a number of his senior students to spend countless hours learning and trying to emulate his knowledge. Steve doesn’t like to be called a master, yet once again, he clearly demonstrates why that title is appropriate to describe him. After reading this book, read it again after a week to let more of his knowledge and energy seep in and keep reading it regularly for those little nuggets and light bulb moments that will arise.

Bryan Andrews
Chair – British Council of Chinese Martial Arts
6th Dan Karate
5th Degree Kung Fu
National Tai Chi teacher
MSc in Advanced Sports Coaching practice (Martial Arts) – Level 7
British Judo Level 5 coach

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