Martial Arts
The Silence After the Slam: Barcelos, the Stretcher, and a UFC Ledger That Doesn't Add Up
A Failure of Accounting, Not a Fall: MMA's First Asian Games Test and Lo Thi Phung's Quarterfinal
42–41: The Bronze That Was Actually Won in the Quarter-final
The Deal Sheet of the Blade: Singapore's First Épée Team Bronze and the Silent Price of a Market
The Report With No Data: Fight Records, Empty Cells and the Search for a Genesis Block
The Silence After the Slam: Barcelos, the Stretcher, and a UFC Ledger That Doesn't Add UpThe Silence After the Slam: Barcelos, the Stretcher, and a UFC Ledger That...
A Failure of Accounting, Not a Fall: MMA's First Asian Games Test and Lo Thi Phung's QuarterfinalHook The afternoon of September 20 was half gone, and the three judges at...
The Report With No Data: Fight Records, Empty Cells and the Search for a Genesis BlockA nine-dimension analysis framework arrived on my desk this week with an empt...
42–41: The Bronze That Was Actually Won in the Quarter-finalThe scoreboard read 42–41 and the match had already stopped, in overtime. Tea...
Vietnam's Karate Kata Gold: One Milestone, Three Unsettled QuestionsOn September 22, at 2:20 in the afternoon, I sat beside the karate mat at the...
Five Cards, One Swollen Knee, and the Kata Nobody Wrote DownHook: One Knee on the Warm-Up Mat, Five Cards on the Board 22 September 2026....
The Deal Sheet of the Blade: Singapore's First Épée Team Bronze and the Silent Price of a Market42–41. When the final touch landed on the épée strip, the roof did not come...
Before the 45th Touch: Singapore's Épée Bronze, Three Medals, and Our Empty Ledger1:07 a.m. Outside my window in Dhaka the road is empty and a tube light burns...
One Overtime Touch, a Ten-Touch Wall: Inside Singapore's Épée BronzeThe most pitiless thing in an épée hall is not a human being; it is a small...
42–41: The One Touch That Wrote Three Medals Into Singapore's Fencing LedgerThe scoreboard read 42–41. Quarter-final, women's team épée, Singapore agains...
42–41: Singapore's First Épée Team Medal and the Ten-Touch Ledger Against KoreaThe scoreboard at the Aichi Sky Expo strip read 42–41. Women's team épée,...