Martial Arts
Short Hair, Counted Breaths: The Numbers Inside Vietnam's Team Kata Gold
Vietnam's Kata Three: The Scorecard Nobody Published
Vietnam's Wushu Team at the Asian Games: 'A Rain of Medals' or a Gift of the Bracket?
Does 5-0 Always Mean a Shutout? Vietnam's Kata Gold Poses Five Questions for Bangladesh Karate
Not the 5-0 Verdict, But the Gap in the Ledger: The Real Lesson of Vietnam's Kata GoldVietnam's women's team kata won gold at the 20th Asian Games, and the...
Short Hair, Counted Breaths: The Numbers Inside Vietnam's Team Kata GoldIn 2026, in the indoor hall of the Khulna District Stadium, I sat with a spir...
Vietnam's Kata Three: The Scorecard Nobody PublishedThe women's team kata final at Asiad 20 had just ended. I was scrolling the...
Vietnam's Wushu Team at the Asian Games: 'A Rain of Medals' or a Gift of the Bracket?I was scrolling the Asian Games wushu results feed on my veranda in Chattogra...
Vietnam's first ASIAD 2026 gold in team kata: 5-0, 5-0, then IranI count the seconds because every athlete is somebody. The afternoon of 22...
The Medal Table Nobody Published: An Eight-Dimension Audit of the Empty Cells in Bangladeshi Combat SportsI opened the file and sat still for a while. A twelve-page analysis report....
Four Asiads of Rhythm: Thuy Vi's Bronze and the Gap Where the Difficulty Score Should BeA Tie Is Bought Time, Not a Loss The sword routine ended and two names landed...
Singapore's Epée Team Bronze: First Ever Women's Epée Team Medal in Asian Games HistorySingapore Wins First Ever Women's Epée Team Bronze at Asian Games The bronze...
Does 5-0 Always Mean a Shutout? Vietnam's Kata Gold Poses Five Questions for Bangladesh Karate5-0. The number immediately suggests a one-sided fight, an opponent floored, ...
The Ledger of Empty Cells: In Combat Sports, 'N/A' Is the Biggest TruthLate last Thursday I opened an analytics file on my laptop. I scrolled, and...
Five Judges, One Verdict: Vietnam's Women's Team Kata and the Quiet Arithmetic of Asiad 20Half the chairs in the hall were empty. The two or three hundred people who h...
Asian Games 2026: Singapore's Historic Épée Team Bronze — A Milestone Story and the Reality of the Elite TierAt the Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Games, Singapore's women's épée team won a...
42–41 and the Ten-Touch Wall: Four Gates for Reading Singapore's Fencing Bronze42–41. That number does not belong on a team épée scoreboard. Team épée runs ...
The Last Touch on Her Own Point: Singapore's Épée Bronze, Three Silent Games, and the Ten-Touch DistanceOn strip three at the Aichi Sky Expo, there were almost two full seconds of...