Martial Arts
Eight Columns, Zero Information Points: A Ledger of Silence in Combat-Sports Analysis
Four Columns on the Leitai: Where Vietnam's Opening Lies in the 56kg Sanda Final, and Where China's Arithmetic Sits
The Leitai's Last Hour: China's Monopoly Wall and Vietnam's 21-Year-Old in the Sanda 56kg Final at Nagoya 2026
A Fighter Collapsed in a Sauna, and the Asian Games Seam Nobody Guards
0.42 Points and a Unanimous Panel: What Vietnam's Asiad 20 Karate Gold Really Measures
Martial ArtsEight Columns, Zero Information Points: A Ledger of Silence in Combat-Sports AnalysisThe Thursday call had barely ended when I opened the ledger book. Twenty...
Martial ArtsFour Columns on the Leitai: Where Vietnam's Opening Lies in the 56kg Sanda Final, and Where China's Arithmetic SitsSeptember 24, 2026. A wushu hall in Nagoya. On the morning scale the same...
Martial ArtsThe Leitai's Last Hour: China's Monopoly Wall and Vietnam's 21-Year-Old in the Sanda 56kg Final at Nagoya 2026The sound a stretcher's wheels make on an Asian Games floor never appears in ...
Martial ArtsA Fighter Collapsed in a Sauna, and the Asian Games Seam Nobody GuardsI did not watch the bout. There was nothing to watch, because the bout never...
Martial Arts0.42 Points and a Unanimous Panel: What Vietnam's Asiad 20 Karate Gold Really MeasuresWhen the women's team kata final at Asiad 20 ended, the scoreboard told an...
Martial ArtsThe Lei Tai Ledger: Why Three of Vietnam's Four Wushu Bronzes Were Built by the Bracket, Not the FightOn the night of September 23, Vietnamese sports pages filled with a single...
Martial ArtsHand-Counted Medals: Vietnam's Two Bronzes and the Quiet Arithmetic of Asiad 20The whole match reads like a scoresheet. Bui Ngoc Nhi stepped onto the mat an...
Martial ArtsTeam Kata's 5-0 Gold: A Swollen Knee, a Shared Breath, and a Forty-Seven-Thousand-Dollar LedgerThree athletes stood on the warm-up mat. One of them had a left knee that was...
Martial ArtsFour Columns on the Leitai: Where Vietnam's Opening Lies in the 56kg Sanda Final, and Where China's Arithmetic SitsSeptember 24, 2026. A wushu hall in Nagoya. On the morning scale the same...
Martial ArtsThe Leitai's Last Hour: China's Monopoly Wall and Vietnam's 21-Year-Old in the Sanda 56kg Final at Nagoya 2026The sound a stretcher's wheels make on an Asian Games floor never appears in ...
Martial ArtsA Fighter Collapsed in a Sauna, and the Asian Games Seam Nobody GuardsI did not watch the bout. There was nothing to watch, because the bout never...
Martial Arts0.42 Points and a Unanimous Panel: What Vietnam's Asiad 20 Karate Gold Really MeasuresWhen the women's team kata final at Asiad 20 ended, the scoreboard told an...
Martial ArtsThe Lei Tai Ledger: Why Three of Vietnam's Four Wushu Bronzes Were Built by the Bracket, Not the FightOn the night of September 23, Vietnamese sports pages filled with a single...
Martial ArtsHand-Counted Medals: Vietnam's Two Bronzes and the Quiet Arithmetic of Asiad 20The whole match reads like a scoresheet. Bui Ngoc Nhi stepped onto the mat an...
Martial ArtsTeam Kata's 5-0 Gold: A Swollen Knee, a Shared Breath, and a Forty-Seven-Thousand-Dollar LedgerThree athletes stood on the warm-up mat. One of them had a left knee that was...