Martial Arts
Martial ArtsSingapore and Its First-Ever Team Epee Medal: When the Top Seed Paid for Its Own Draw2026-09-26At the penultimate bout of the quarter-final, the electronic scoreboard on th...
Martial ArtsAn Overnight Weight Cut at the 2026 Asian Games: When the Scale Fells a Fighter Before the Fight Begins2026-09-22The Person Who Woke Him Was Not the Referee It was not the team doctor who...
Martial ArtsPoomsae at Chuncheon 2026: Vietnam's Gold and the Gap Named Korea2026-09-19Inside the Chuncheon arena in South Korea, during the final round of the...
Martial ArtsSame Name, Different Weight: The MMA Champion Map and the Trap of the Belts2026-09-15At a morning weigh-in in Bangkok, the digital board showed 205. Nobody in the...
Martial ArtsThe MMA Championship Map: When Six Promotions No Longer Share One Ruler2026-09-15I still remember an October evening in Beijing, when a Chinese friend pushed...
Singapore and Its First-Ever Team Epee Medal: When the Top Seed Paid for Its Own DrawAt the penultimate bout of the quarter-final, the electronic scoreboard on th...
Singapore's Women's Epee Team at the Asian Games: A First Medal and the Structural Layers Behind ItThe scoreboard flicked from 41-41 to 42-41, and the closing bout of Singapore...
Singapore's Sword and the Final Touch on Asian SoilI still remember the feeling of sitting in the stands of the 19/8 Stadium on...
The Beat of Blades and Hearts: Singapore Women's Epee Team's First Medal at the Asian Games, Seen from the Stands42-41. Overtime. One touch. I still remember standing in a coffee shop in Thu...
Vietnam's women's kata keeps gold in Toyohashi: the breath of three and the gap behind the medalOn the tatami of Toyohashi Gymnasium, three Vietnamese women stood in a line...
Vietnam Karate at Asiad 20: Reading the 5-0 Scoreline in ToyohashiToyohashi, Japan. The scoreboard shows a number no combat discipline can...
Duong Thuy Vi and 0.133 Points: A 20th Asian Games Bronze and the Succession Gap in Vietnamese WushuThe final routine of the women's spear taolu final at the 20th Asian Games in...
Duong Thuy Vi, the Bronze at Asiad 20 and the 0.133-Point Gap to Yao YangThe last athlete to step onto the carpet was Duong Thuy Vi. The spear in her...
The Power of a Shared Breath: Vietnam's Women's Kata Team and the 5-0 Gold Amidst SilenceIn the waiting area of the Asian Games 20, three Vietnamese karate athletes...
Collapse in the Sauna at the Asian Games 2026: The Grey Zone of MMA Weigh-In RulesThe detail I lingered on longest was not the collapse. It was the thirty...
An Overnight Weight Cut at the 2026 Asian Games: When the Scale Fells a Fighter Before the Fight BeginsThe Person Who Woke Him Was Not the Referee It was not the team doctor who...
UFC 331: Arman Tsarukyan vs. Mauricio Ruffy – The Punch and the Unpriced BackOn the night of January 18, 2026, I sat in front of a screen in Hai Phong...
Vietnam's Taekwondo Poomsae Gold at Chuncheon 2026: Read the Result by Age, Not by WeightAt the Chuncheon arena in South Korea, as the mixed-pair standard poomsae...
Poomsae at Chuncheon 2026: Vietnam's Gold and the Gap Named KoreaInside the Chuncheon arena in South Korea, during the final round of the...
Vietnam's Taekwondo Ahead of Asiad 2026: The Gamble of Two Women's Weight ClassesInside the training hall at Yongin University, the beep of the electronic hog...
Vietnam's Taekwondo Ahead of Asiad 2026: Two Women Carry the Entire Medal DreamOn the last afternoon at the National Sports Training Centre in Ho Chi Minh...
Same Name, Different Weight: The MMA Champion Map and the Trap of the BeltsAt a morning weigh-in in Bangkok, the digital board showed 205. Nobody in the...
The MMA Championship Map: When Six Promotions No Longer Share One RulerI still remember an October evening in Beijing, when a Chinese friend pushed...
The Global MMA Champion Map: Six Promotions, Twenty-Plus Divisions, and an Unnamed Structural OffsetI keep a notebook for MMA championship tables, updated once a month, going ba...
The Forgotten Touchline: The Real Pulse from Khanh Hoa's Training Ground in the Transfer Window5:47 AM, Nha Trang youth training center pitch. Dew still clings to the grass...
Six Shadows and a Silence: Vietnam Poomsae at the Threshold of ChuncheonInside the third training hall of the National Sports Training Center in Ho C...
Vietnamese Combat Sports: The Empty Analysis and the Cost of Not Knowing Which Sport You Are Actually Competing InVietnamese Combat Sports: The Empty Analysis and the Cost of Not Knowing Whic...
The Referee's Eye on the Combat Floor: Eight Dimensions for Reading a FightTHE REFEREE'S EYE ON THE COMBAT FLOOR: EIGHT DIMENSIONS FOR READING A FIGHT...
Vietnam Poomsae in Chuncheon: Decoding the Collective Medal Model and the Unfilled Individual GapIn Chuncheon, a mountain city in South Korea's Gangwon province, the poomsae...
Singapore's Women's Epee Team at the Asian Games: A First Medal and the Structural Layers Behind ItThe scoreboard flicked from 41-41 to 42-41, and the closing bout of Singapore...
Singapore's Sword and the Final Touch on Asian SoilI still remember the feeling of sitting in the stands of the 19/8 Stadium on...
The Beat of Blades and Hearts: Singapore Women's Epee Team's First Medal at the Asian Games, Seen from the Stands42-41. Overtime. One touch. I still remember standing in a coffee shop in Thu...
Vietnam's women's kata keeps gold in Toyohashi: the breath of three and the gap behind the medalOn the tatami of Toyohashi Gymnasium, three Vietnamese women stood in a line...
Vietnam Karate at Asiad 20: Reading the 5-0 Scoreline in ToyohashiToyohashi, Japan. The scoreboard shows a number no combat discipline can...
Duong Thuy Vi and 0.133 Points: A 20th Asian Games Bronze and the Succession Gap in Vietnamese WushuThe final routine of the women's spear taolu final at the 20th Asian Games in...
Duong Thuy Vi, the Bronze at Asiad 20 and the 0.133-Point Gap to Yao YangThe last athlete to step onto the carpet was Duong Thuy Vi. The spear in her...
The Power of a Shared Breath: Vietnam's Women's Kata Team and the 5-0 Gold Amidst SilenceIn the waiting area of the Asian Games 20, three Vietnamese karate athletes...
Collapse in the Sauna at the Asian Games 2026: The Grey Zone of MMA Weigh-In RulesThe detail I lingered on longest was not the collapse. It was the thirty...
An Overnight Weight Cut at the 2026 Asian Games: When the Scale Fells a Fighter Before the Fight BeginsThe Person Who Woke Him Was Not the Referee It was not the team doctor who...
UFC 331: Arman Tsarukyan vs. Mauricio Ruffy – The Punch and the Unpriced BackOn the night of January 18, 2026, I sat in front of a screen in Hai Phong...
Vietnam's Taekwondo Poomsae Gold at Chuncheon 2026: Read the Result by Age, Not by WeightAt the Chuncheon arena in South Korea, as the mixed-pair standard poomsae...
Poomsae at Chuncheon 2026: Vietnam's Gold and the Gap Named KoreaInside the Chuncheon arena in South Korea, during the final round of the...
Vietnam's Taekwondo Ahead of Asiad 2026: The Gamble of Two Women's Weight ClassesInside the training hall at Yongin University, the beep of the electronic hog...
Vietnam's Taekwondo Ahead of Asiad 2026: Two Women Carry the Entire Medal DreamOn the last afternoon at the National Sports Training Centre in Ho Chi Minh...
Same Name, Different Weight: The MMA Champion Map and the Trap of the BeltsAt a morning weigh-in in Bangkok, the digital board showed 205. Nobody in the...
The MMA Championship Map: When Six Promotions No Longer Share One RulerI still remember an October evening in Beijing, when a Chinese friend pushed...
The Global MMA Champion Map: Six Promotions, Twenty-Plus Divisions, and an Unnamed Structural OffsetI keep a notebook for MMA championship tables, updated once a month, going ba...
The Forgotten Touchline: The Real Pulse from Khanh Hoa's Training Ground in the Transfer Window5:47 AM, Nha Trang youth training center pitch. Dew still clings to the grass...
Six Shadows and a Silence: Vietnam Poomsae at the Threshold of ChuncheonInside the third training hall of the National Sports Training Center in Ho C...
Vietnamese Combat Sports: The Empty Analysis and the Cost of Not Knowing Which Sport You Are Actually Competing InVietnamese Combat Sports: The Empty Analysis and the Cost of Not Knowing Whic...
The Referee's Eye on the Combat Floor: Eight Dimensions for Reading a FightTHE REFEREE'S EYE ON THE COMBAT FLOOR: EIGHT DIMENSIONS FOR READING A FIGHT...
Vietnam Poomsae in Chuncheon: Decoding the Collective Medal Model and the Unfilled Individual GapIn Chuncheon, a mountain city in South Korea's Gangwon province, the poomsae...
