Martial Arts
Martial ArtsVietnam Poomsae at Chuncheon: Searching for a Gold That Does Not Come from an IndividualIn a corner of the training floor at Phu Tho Sports Center, the Vietnam pooms...
Martial ArtsVietnam's Combat Sports Transfer Window: Contracts, Corners, and the Signals That Never Reach the ScoreboardAt 5:40 in the morning, the gym tucked deep in an alley off Nguyen Thien Thua...
Martial ArtsVietnamese Combat Sports: The SEA Games Comfort Zone and the Olympic GapOn the night of the martial arts finals at SEA Games 31 in Hanoi, I sat in th...
Martial ArtsWhen Data Falls Silent: The Blank Analysis and the Art of Stopping the Pen in Combat Sports JournalismLast night in Nha Trang, I opened a file a young colleague had sent over — a...
Martial ArtsAn Empty Fight File: Unscreened Risk and the Trap of Silence02:14 in the morning, Incheon, the last night of November. The file from the...
Martial ArtsWhich Analytical Framework for Vietnamese Martial Arts: When Taolu Is Measured by KnockoutsThe third round had 42 seconds left. The fighter in the red shorts pinned his...
Martial ArtsThe Rhythm of Vietnamese Combat Sports: Eight Layers of a Shifting ArenaOn a late March morning, the night in Guangzhou was so sealed that even a...
Martial ArtsOne Data Cell, Three Martial Arts: Why Vietnam's Combat Sports Medal Table Cannot Be Used for AnalysisMay 2026, SEA Games 31 in Hanoi. That afternoon I wrote two lines on the same...
Martial ArtsVietnamese Traditional Martial Arts at a Crossroads: Preserve the Forms or Step Into the Ring?Every season begins on a morning when no one is awake yet. In a small martial...
Martial ArtsEight Empty Lines in a Fighter's File: Vietnam's Combat Sports Injury Data ProblemA data file about a Vietnamese fighter reached me on a September morning. It...
Martial ArtsThe 'Martial Arts' Label and the Analysis Trap: When the Data Is Empty, the Right Answer Is 'I Don't Know'On my desk in Nha Trang sits a fourteen-page file. I opened it one morning,...
Martial ArtsThe Verification Hinge: Why Combat Sports Analysis Cannot Live on GuessworkLate one March night in Chengdu, I sat in front of a screen holding a fight...
Martial ArtsThe Ring and the Way: How a Classification Gap Is Distorting the Way We See Vietnamese Martial ArtsOn a morning at a training hall by the Han River, two groups share one floor....
Martial ArtsVietnam's Octagon: When the Cage Grows Faster Than the Ecosystem That Holds ItRound one ends at the 94-second mark. A young Vietnamese fighter lies on his...

