Martial Arts
Singapore Women's Epee Team at the Asian Games: A First Bronze and the Data Nobody Read Correctly
The Throw on the Leitai and the Real Gap Between Dinh Van Tam and Ou Jiaming
Winning Scores, Losing Rhythm — Why Vietnamese Taolu Is Still Stuck Between Difficulty and Silence
Vietnam Taekwondo Wins Poomsae Gold at the 2026 World Championships: A Victory Built on a Substitution and an Empty Slot in Chuncheon
Vietnam's Poomsae World Title: Swapping Partners, Keeping the Crown, and the Question No One Asks
Vietnam's Taekwondo Poomsae Gold and the Void Named Korea
Transfer-Window Noise and How a Combat-Sports Reporter Filters SignalIn March 2026, in a small studio in Chengdu, I mispronounced Son Heung-min's...
Singapore Women's Epee Team at the Asian Games: A First Bronze and the Data Nobody Read CorrectlyOn the electronic scoreboard of the fencing hall at the Asian Games, the scor...
Singapore and its first epee team medal: when team-bracket rules wrote historyOn the piste, when the scoreboard froze at 41-41, everything behind that mome...
Singapore's Women's Epee Bronze at the Asian Games: Top Seed and the Gap Between Expectation and RealityThe 42nd touch fell into the silence right before the light came on. At the...
Singapore's First Women's Epee Team Medal and the Gap That Has Not ClosedBout nine. Elle Koh lowered her blade, wrist straight, eyes fixed on her...
Three Athletes, One Rhythm: Vietnam's Karate Kata Gold at Asiad 20Five judges at the Toyohashi gymnasium raised their panels almost...
Vietnam Women's Team Kata Defends Asian Games 20 Gold: When a 5-0 Verdict Beats Any KnockoutI rewatched the women's team kata final at the Toyohashi gymnasium. No blood....
The Throw on the Leitai and the Real Gap Between Dinh Van Tam and Ou JiamingOn a leitai platform 80 cm high and exactly 8 square metres wide, a successfu...
Dinh Van Tam vs Ou Jiaming in the Asiad 20 men's 56kg sanda final: A fight balanced down to the final roundI still remember the moment I pressed pause and rewound the video three times...
Team Kata and the Breathing of a SystemThe women's team kata final ended with five flags raised to one side. Five...
The Sauna Collapse: Why an Indian MMA Fighter Withdrew at the 2026 Asian GamesAbout 30 minutes into the sauna, fighter Sanyal's body began sending out...
Vietnamese Fighters Win on the Ring, But Lose in the GymSaturday night, Rajadamnern Stadium, Bangkok. The gong sounded, signaling the...
UFC 331: Tsarukyan, Ruffy and the Blank Variable on the Data SheetOn the night of UFC 331 at Crypto.com Arena, Los Angeles, a non-title fight w...
Winning Scores, Losing Rhythm — Why Vietnamese Taolu Is Still Stuck Between Difficulty and SilenceAt the national taolu championship in Hanoi last May, I sat in the stands and...
Eight Layers of a Fight Night: Vietnamese Martial Arts Seen from the Phu Tho Arena FloorEight Layers of a Fight Night: Vietnamese Martial Arts Seen from the Phu Tho...
Vietnamese Combat Sports: The Gap Between Medals and DataVietnamese Combat Sports: The Gap Between Medals and Data 5:12 a.m. at the Ho...
Vietnam Taekwondo Wins Poomsae Gold at the 2026 World Championships: A Victory Built on a Substitution and an Empty Slot in ChuncheonIn the stands of Chuncheon that afternoon, I counted a fair number of empty...