Martial Arts
China's Monopoly on a Nagoya Leitai: Where Vietnam's Math Stands in the 56kg Final
Knee, Silence and a 5-0: The Ledger Inside Vietnam's Team Kata Gold at Asiad
0.133 Points and Sixteen Years: Duong Thuy Vi's Bronze and the Ledger of Wushu Taolu That Nobody Keeps
The Semifinal Is Vietnam's Ceiling: The Arithmetic Behind Four Bronzes in One Day
The Ledger on the Carpet: Duong Thuy Vi in Nagoya, 0.007, and the Unfinished Book of Taolu Scoring
0.133 Points and Sixteen Years: Duong Thuy Vi's Bronze and the Ledger of Wushu Taolu That Nobody KeepsThree names, three scores, and a total of 0.133 points between them. China's...
The Semifinal Is Vietnam's Ceiling: The Arithmetic Behind Four Bronzes in One DayFreeze the bracket. My notebook's entry for September 23 is two lines long....
China's Monopoly on a Nagoya Leitai: Where Vietnam's Math Stands in the 56kg FinalI will not watch the bout live. The Asian Games has come to my city —...
The Ledger on the Carpet: Duong Thuy Vi in Nagoya, 0.007, and the Unfinished Book of Taolu ScoringDuong Thuy Vi's jianshu routine closed at 9.703. Her spear routine, later in...
Vietnam's First Gold Came from Kata: Three Women Who Beat Iran at ASIAD 2026, and Our Unfinished LedgerOn the evening of 22 September 2026, on a Rajshahi rooftop, I sat with a weak...
The Empty Ledger: Combat Sports Data Truth, Blockchain, and a 3 A.M. Witness in Nagoya3:11 a.m., Nagoya. I opened a file. Forty rows inside. Every one of them said...
Ring, Scorecard and Chain: Combat Sports' Record-Keeping Crisis and the Limits of BlockchainI read the report three times. The first time quickly, the second time slowly...
The Lei Tai Ledger: Reading Vietnam’s Four Bronzes and One Silver at the Asian GamesThe semifinal ends. A Vietnamese sanda fighter steps down off the lei tai wit...
Knee, Silence and a 5-0: The Ledger Inside Vietnam's Team Kata Gold at AsiadOn the twenty-second of September I opened a laptop in the corner of a nearly...
Two Columns in the Ledger: Van's 72 Percent and Pantoja's Eighteen Failed ShotsLast Saturday. Just "Saturday." No outlet, no byline, no dateline, not even a...