Martial Arts
The Ring, the Ledger and an Unfinished Chain: Accounting for Bangladeshi Combat Sports
The Honesty of an Empty Input: Why Combat Sports' Ledger Still Won't Get On-Chain
Not a Medal Rain but a Semifinal Ceiling: The Cash Audit of Vietnam's Wushu at Asiad 20
Six Against One: China's Wall and Vietnam's Hammer in Sanda's 56kg — the Bout Being Sold as 'the Spirit of Kung Fu'
From 9.703 to 9.710: The Ledger Nobody Publishes in Taolu
Martial ArtsThe Ring, the Ledger and an Unfinished Chain: Accounting for Bangladeshi Combat SportsMy spiral notebook’s first page carried a single numeral — 47. In 2026, at th...
Martial ArtsSix Against One: China's Wall and Vietnam's Hammer in Sanda's 56kg — the Bout Being Sold as 'the Spirit of Kung Fu'I have rewound one moment from the Sanda World Cup in Macau more times than I...
Martial ArtsThe Honesty of an Empty Input: Why Combat Sports' Ledger Still Won't Get On-Chain145 Golds, and One Empty Table Last month an analysis engine opened eight...
Martial ArtsFrom 9.703 to 9.710: The Ledger Nobody Publishes in TaoluThe scoreboard at the end of the first routine carried the same number twice:...
Martial ArtsNot a Medal Rain but a Semifinal Ceiling: The Cash Audit of Vietnam's Wushu at Asiad 20On September 23, Vietnam's wushu team ended the day with four bronze medals a...
Martial ArtsThe Lei Tai Ledger: Three of Vietnam's Four Wushu Bronzes Were Born at the Semifinal LineOn September 23, Vietnam's wushu delegation added four bronze medals in a...
Martial Arts5-0 and 0-5: Vietnam's Two Numbers, One Medal, in Karate's LedgerIn Toyohashi, when the team kata final ended, the board read 5-0. Five judges...
Martial Arts42–41: Singapore's Fencing Bronze and the Ten-Touch DistanceTwo in the morning in a Colombo flat, and on the laptop screen, the inside of...
Martial ArtsFrom 42–41 to 35–45: Where Singapore's Épée Bronze Reaches and Where It StopsSeven touches stood between the final relay and the scoreboard at the Aichi S...
Martial ArtsHistoric Bronze for Singapore Women's Épée Team at the Asian Games: The 45-Touch Arithmetic, Overtime, and Structural Lesson42–41. Overtime. For a team épée bout, that scoreline looks odd against the...
Martial ArtsThe Ledger Beneath the Blade: What Singapore's First Asian Games Épée Team Bronze Actually MeasuresThe weapon is épée — the most patient of fencing's three blades. There is no...