Martial Arts
Vietnamese Combat Sports: When the Data Is Empty, the Most Honest Verdict Is an Empty One2026-10-24In December 2026 I sat on the second floor of a gym in Hai Phong, phone in...
The Empty Report in Mid-Season: When There Is Not Enough Data to Write2026-10-23The clock on the wall of the Shanghai office read 2:47 in the morning. On...
Three 48-47 Scorecards and the Weight Cut Chimaev No Longer Remembers2026-10-23Three scorecards, one line: 48-47. But no two cards were alike. One judge gav...
Weight, career mileage and the data gap: how to read a Vietnamese fight2026-10-21The weigh-in took place at seven in the morning, before the arena doors had...
UFC Heavyweight: 27 Reigns in 28 Years and the Logic Behind a Fracturing Title2026-10-19On November 11, 2026, Tom Aspinall knocked out Sergei Pavlovich in 69 seconds...
Vietnam’s women’s team kata at ASIAD 2026: the first gold and the data gap in the final2026-10-17After the final call from the referee, the three Vietnamese women’s team kata...
Slavi Binev shot in Sofia: the power vacuum in European taekwondo and the questions still unansweredThe moment of silence in Sofia lasted exactly sixty seconds. The internationa...
The Empty Report: How a Data Vacuum Is Quietly Reshaping Southeast Asian Combat SportsA forty-page report sat on my desk in Chiang Mai on an August morning. Eight...
Two Disqualifications in Three Months: The Punch After the Bell and the Gap Nobody CoachesThe bell ending the second round in Glasgow rang exactly as Abdul had already...
Vietnamese Combat Sports: When the Data Is Empty, the Most Honest Verdict Is an Empty OneIn December 2026 I sat on the second floor of a gym in Hai Phong, phone in...
Three Wrong Anthems in One Day: The Protocol Control Failure at the 2026 Asian Para GamesOn the evening of 19 October 2026, inside the arena at the Nagoya sports...
Sanda, taolu and MMA do not share one yardstick: lessons from an empty data fileA fourteen-page report landed in my inbox in Beijing on an August morning....
Three Anthem Errors in One Day: The Protocol Failure at the 2026 Asian Para GamesFor the first twenty seconds, nobody in the control room noticed anything...
The Empty Report in Mid-Season: When There Is Not Enough Data to WriteThe clock on the wall of the Shanghai office read 2:47 in the morning. On...
Three Anthem Errors in One Day at Aichi-Nagoya: The Verification Gap Inside a Six-Day GamesOn 19 October, in a competition hall in Nagoya, the gold-medal ceremony for t...
Three 48-47 Scorecards and the Weight Cut Chimaev No Longer RemembersThree scorecards, one line: 48-47. But no two cards were alike. One judge gav...
Tomofumi Takajo: the 2026 ippon and a money-mule allegation in KumamotoIn December 2026, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, a 20-year-old judoka...
From a Tokyo Grand Slam ippon to a Kumamoto ATM: the empty space after Takajo Tomofumi's medalsIn December 2026, on the tatami at the Tokyo Grand Slam, a 20-year-old from...
