Martial Arts
Combat Sports Analysis Stalls Without Evidence: Fighters, Events and Accountability Missing Across Eight Dimensions
Two Illusions, One Leitai: The Real Arithmetic Behind the China–Vietnam 56kg Final
The 9.346 Twice-Over: The Arithmetic That Doesn't Add Up Behind Vietnam's Historic Medal
Vietnam’s Karate Ledger: Team Kata 5-0, One Gold, Two Bronzes and a Date Still Unverified
The Five Names Missing Beside the Six-Zero: The Real Ledger of the Sydney Main Event
42–41 in a 45-Touch Ledger: Singapore's Épée Bronze and a Scoreboard That Wouldn't Add Up
Combat Sports Analysis Stalls Without Evidence: Fighters, Events and Accountability Missing Across Eight DimensionsCombat Sports Analysis Stalls Without Evidence: Fighters, Events and...
Two Illusions, One Leitai: The Real Arithmetic Behind the China–Vietnam 56kg FinalThe arena went quiet for exactly eight seconds after Shojib Hossain was lifte...
The 9.346 Twice-Over: The Arithmetic That Doesn't Add Up Behind Vietnam's Historic MedalI wasn't sitting with a stopwatch synced to Dakar — let me start by admitting...
Dhaka's Four Karate Golds: The Ledger That Never Closed, Fifteen Years OnFebruary 2026, Dhaka. The South Asian Games karate events were held at the...
Zero Information Points: Four Karate Golds and the Empty File of Bangladesh's Combat ArchiveZero. Last week a stage-analysis report crossed my desk and every single fiel...
The Result That Was Never Written Down: Bangladesh's Missing Combat-Sports LedgerMarch 2026, the NSC Gymnasium. The last of four days at the national karate...
The Blank Field: Accounting for Data Voids in Bangladesh's Combat SportsA bout sheet from a national-level karate competition at the NSC gymnasium in...
Vietnam’s Karate Ledger: Team Kata 5-0, One Gold, Two Bronzes and a Date Still UnverifiedFive to nothing. On the screen, the women’s team kata final from a Japan-host...
The Five Names Missing Beside the Six-Zero: The Real Ledger of the Sydney Main EventOn the wall of a gym in Nishinari, Osaka, a photocopy has hung for seven year...
A Thousand Points and an Empty Court: What Vietnam's Virtual Taekwondo Medal Hope Is Really SayingThe morning session on February 10 is arranged in an unusual way. In the...
Ho Chi Minh City and BoxRec: Recognition of Records, Not of SanctioningI counted forty-six days in the gymnasium, and the beat counted me back. In t...
The Empty Ledger: Combat Sports Cannot Be Verified by a Blockchain When Nobody Writes the RecordAutumn 2026. The main door of the NSC gymnasium was shut, the lights were on...
Not the Martinete, the Permit: The Paper Nobody in Mexico's Ring Wants to Look AtThe clip runs eleven seconds. I watched it in a Nagoya apartment at 3 a.m., o...
Eleven Years After the Four Golds: Karate's Olympic Dream and the Medal Table Nobody PrintedHook August 5, 2026, close to 9:30 p.m. The karate kata final is running at t...
The Injury Off the Ledger: One Finger in Tokyo and Bangladesh's Lost DecadeIn June 2026, I live-threaded all 64 matches of the Russia World Cup from...
42–41: An Asian Games Épée Bronze and the Ledger of a Weapon SportHook: Where the Match Stopped 42–41 on the scoreboard. Two fencers at either...
42–41 in a 45-Touch Ledger: Singapore's Épée Bronze and a Scoreboard That Wouldn't Add UpThe air inside the fencing piste at Aichi Sky Expo was the most mechanical...
Asian Games 2026: Singapore's Team Épée Bronze—A Structural Achievement, Not Mere LuckImagine the moment of overtime. The hall is full, but there is no sound....
The Ten-Touch Gap: An Asian Games Épée Bronze and the Quiet Tiering of FencingA green light on the scoring apparatus, a forty-millisecond window, and an...
The Touch Nobody Counted: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Unseen Ladder of Asian FencingHook Before the last touch left the anchor's hand and lit the electronic boar...
Singapore's Women's Épée Team Bronze at the Asian Games: A Ledger from 42–41 Overtime to a 35–45 Semi-finalThe last entry in my ledger is 42–41, overtime, the touch from anchor Elle...
42–41: Singapore's First Épée Team Bronze, and the Rule That Keeps a Match Alive to the Final TouchThe scoreboard read 42–41. Singapore's anchor, Elle Koh, had just planted the...
42–41: Singapore's First Asian Games Team Épée Bronze — and the Scoreline That Refuses to ReconcileThe Scoreboard That Refuses to Add Up Three in the morning, Dhaka. On the...
42–41 in a 45-Touch Relay: What Singapore's Asian Games Bronze Actually ProvesI did not watch it live. This time the excuse takes a new shape. In earlier...