Martial Arts
Martial ArtsAsiad 2026: Vietnam's Taekwondo and the Gamble Built on Just Two Cards2026-09-18On September 28, Vietnam's taekwondo team departs for Japan and the 2026 Asia...
Martial ArtsThe Blank Injury File: When Silence Gets Read as Safety2026-09-16Late in the summer transfer window, a sporting director sent me a forty-page...
Martial ArtsMartial Arts Has No Shared Scorecard — and That Is Where Sports Writers Stumble2026-09-16On the editing desk, a colleague slid a draft toward me. It opened with the...
Martial ArtsVietnam's Taekwondo Team Before Asiad 2026: A Medal Resting on Two Pairs of Legs2026-09-18The first thing I wrote down when I re-watched the tape of Bạc Thị Khiêm's...
Martial ArtsVietnamese Combat Sports: What Structure Sustains the Medals?2026-09-17Vietnamese Combat Sports: What Structure Sustains the Medals? At the boxing...
Martial ArtsKata Leaves the Olympics: The Scoring Problem of Traditional Martial Arts Forms2026-09-17The longest kata at the Tokyo 2026 Olympics ran just under eighty seconds. In...
Vietnam's Taekwondo Team Before Asiad 2026: A Medal Resting on Two Pairs of LegsThe first thing I wrote down when I re-watched the tape of Bạc Thị Khiêm's...
Asiad 2026: Vietnam's Taekwondo and the Gamble Built on Just Two CardsOn September 28, Vietnam's taekwondo team departs for Japan and the 2026 Asia...
Vietnamese Combat Sports: What Structure Sustains the Medals?Vietnamese Combat Sports: What Structure Sustains the Medals? At the boxing...
Kata Leaves the Olympics: The Scoring Problem of Traditional Martial Arts FormsThe longest kata at the Tokyo 2026 Olympics ran just under eighty seconds. In...
The Hand That Never Lies: Decoding Injury in Vietnam's Combat SportsRound four. A professional boxing night at Phu Tho Arena. The left hand of a...
Inside the grind of Vietnamese fighters: the question that remains after age 22At 5:30 in the morning, the ceiling fans in a gym in Binh Duong spin at full...
Punching the Air: Why Vietnamese Combat Sports Win at the SEA Games but Fall on the Professional StageOn the night of May 11, 2026, at the Morodok Techo Arena in Phnom Penh, a...
Inam Butt and the Expected Two-Month Ban: When a Late TUE Costs More Than the IllnessIn April 2026, at the Asian Beach Games, Inam Butt stepped onto the podium to...
The Inam Butt Doping Case: When a World Champion Gets Trapped by PaperworkA former beach wrestling world champion who once stood at the pinnacle of his...
The Empty Chair in the Analysis Room: Vietnamese Martial Arts Is Missing Its Own VoiceThe martial arts training room in District 7, Ho Chi Minh City — 10:30 PM. A...
Between the Ring and the Spreadsheet: Writing About Combat Sports When the Data Goes SilentThere are mornings when I sit in front of the screen, open the file for a...
Vietnamese Combat Sports Analysis: One Misclassified Step Derails the Entire BreakdownPeople usually open a martial arts argument with a scoreline. I start with th...
One Frame for Every Martial Art: The Quiet Error in Combat Sports ReportingThe analysis landed on the desk with a single label attached: martial_arts. N...
Wrong Ruler: Vietnamese Martial Arts Is Being Read With Another Sport's ScoreboardThree data points, all correct, none of them speaking the same language. A...
When the Frame Is Not Enough: VAR, Referees and the Grey Zone Nobody NamesMinute 89, the VAR room of a V-League stadium. Three screens glowing blue, th...
The Blank Injury File: When Silence Gets Read as SafetyLate in the summer transfer window, a sporting director sent me a forty-page...
Inam Butt and the Silver Medal That Cannot Be Reclaimed: When a Late Medical Form Weighs Heavier Than the BanInam Butt's eyes reddened after the first period at the Asian beach wrestling...
Martial Arts Has No Shared Scorecard — and That Is Where Sports Writers StumbleOn the editing desk, a colleague slid a draft toward me. It opened with the...
