Martial Arts
That Dakar Youth Olympics Silver: Where the Numbers Don't Add Up, the Real Story BeginsThe news from Dhaka landed around 3 a.m. I was watching a buffering Facebook...
Two Columns of 9.346: The Ledger Behind Dakar's Youth Olympic Silver and What the Screen HidesThe phone rang around six in the morning from Bangkok. A Vietnamese colleague...
The Fight Outside the Ring and the Cage: Eight Dimensions of Modern Combat-Sports AnalysisFight analysis used to be a matter of emotion and fandom. Who knows whom, who...
An Empty Cell Beside the 6-0: Salkilld and Saint Denis in SydneyI read Monday’s press release three times. The first pass snagged on the date...
Eight Cards Before the Ninth: Vietnam's BoxRec Deal Is a Receipt, Not Yet a StandardTrigger Promotion 9. The number is sitting inside the name, and that number i...
The Ledger Outside the Ring: Martial Arts' Empty Data, Empty Reports and Fifty Years of NotebooksThe plastic chair in the gymnasium is still in the same place. In the autumn ...
From an Empty Dataset to the Blockchain — The New Search for Sports Information IntegrityA document reached my hands with every field blank. No title, no source, no...
Martial Arts in the Light of Replay: Panels, Scorecards and the Truth the Frame CatchesI ran that moment at quarter speed until the roar of the Budokan crowd stoppe...
The Unpermitted Ring in Hidalgo: A 75-Year-Old Referee, a Disputed Move, and the Invisible Safety GapThe ring at the 11 de Julio Sports and Cultural Center was not large. In...
The 0.05-Point History: Singapore's First Taekwondo Medal in Nagoya and the Unseen Gap in FormsLast Thursday night, when the scoreboard in the Nagoya hall lit up with 9.040...
Where the Ring Stops, the Ledger BeginsWhere the Ring Stops, the Ledger Begins In 2026, in a Dhaka hotel ballroom,...
Eight Layers of an Empty Frame: In Combat Sports Analysis, Data Is the First OpponentLast May I sat in an indoor venue in Dhaka with a scorecard in hand. A ring i...
Cropped Hair and an Empty Mind: The Ledger of Vietnam's Kata QueensCropped Hair and an Empty Mind: The Ledger of Vietnam's Kata Queens Fourteen...
The Leitai Ledger: Vietnam vs China at 56kg, and the Price of One ThrowMacau, a May evening. The 56kg final of the Sanda World Cup, third round, one...
The Leitai Ledger: China's 56kg Monopoly and Vietnam's One OpeningMacau, May 2026. Third round of the 52kg final, the scoreboard level, and the...
Four Bronzes in a Day, Three From the Semifinal: The Ledger the 'Rain of Medals' Headline BuriesOn the night of September 23, the screen was stacking semifinal results one...
The Ledger of the Leitai: China's Wall and Vietnam's Throw in the Asian Games 56kg FinalThe gym bag held a camera, and the camera held a season that no federation...
From 9.703 to 9.710: Duong Thuy Vi's Fourth Asiad Medal and the Unwritten Ledger of Wushu TaoluOn the Aichi-Nagoya scoreboard, two names stopped on the same number after th...
The Leitai Ledger: China's 56kg Monopoly and Vietnam's Opening at the Sanda FinalThe stretcher came off the leitai while there was still time left in the seco...
Unanimous, Not Wide: Auditing Vietnam's Women's Team Kata Gold at Asiad 20The scoreboard from Vietnam's three reported women's team kata matches at Asi...
From 0–5 to Bronze: Vietnam's Two Asiad 20 Medals and the Deal Sheet Behind ThemThe scoreboard read 0–5. Vietnam's Bui Ngoc Nhi was still standing on the...
Excessive Fasting: Indian MMA Fighter Sanyal Faints at Asiad 2026, Withdraws and Exposes a Failing SystemOn September 20, 2026, at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, Indian MMA fighter...