During the lockdown of 2020, I spent time working on a couple of personal projects, which included my piano album, Aethereality, but also my very first book, The Martial Heart. The book contains a lot of different aspects of martial arts, which I feel are often neglected in many martial arts schools, such as codes of conduct as well as other non-physical characteristics that can help to prevent a physically dangerous situation. As most schools do teach that fighting should only be used as a last resort, I have often questioned as to why the preventative measures to such a situation are neglected. The book also contains tips for physical training, which can be incorporated to your current routine.
For a few years now, I’ve been meaning to write another book, but after much thought, I decided to do a complete overhaul by writing and releasing a second edition of The Martial Heart, as an improved body of teachings and insights, with rewritten and revised content to make the concepts clearer, more practical, applicable and digestible with newly written chapters to further aid your training and way of life.
The contents of this book are lessons and principles I live by and have taught over the last 3 decades or so. As martial artists, we strive for continual improvement; this second edition of my 2020 book is therefore no different as I want it to reflect and share my own deeper understandings and developments as a practitioner and instructor.
The book is now available and published through Amazon directly as a hardback and on Kindle, which has considerably reduced the cost and is therefore more accessible to more people. (I can’t express just how much of a nightmare it was to format for Kindle, as well as getting the cover dimensions right for the hardback!
Those of you who have done it will know what I mean!). I’m so grateful to everyone who has already supported me with the first book and hope that you enjoy this second edition even more. If you enjoy the book, I’d be so grateful if you left a review. Thank you all so much, I really appreciate it and hope it helps you along your journey!
Lastly, I’d like to thank Muleya Sialwiindi for the cover photography and design.
