Martial Arts
The Leitai Ledger: In the Vietnam-vs-China 56kg Final, the Real Currency Is the Throw, Not the Punch
The Ledger of Empty Cells: An Eight-Dimension Combat Sports Analysis That Stopped for Want of Data
42–41: One Touch of History, Ten Touches of Ceiling
13 of 18: The Number No Federation Ever Published
The Empty Cell: Where Bangladeshi Combat Sports Keep No Record
13 of 18: The Number No Federation Ever PublishedHook: The number nobody asked for A single figure sits in my notebook and nev...
The Leitai Ledger: In the Vietnam-vs-China 56kg Final, the Real Currency Is the Throw, Not the PunchThe leitai measures eight metres square and stands eighty centimetres off the...
The Ledger of Empty Cells: An Eight-Dimension Combat Sports Analysis That Stopped for Want of DataA report landed on my desk with almost every field blank: no title, no source...
The Empty Cell: Where Bangladeshi Combat Sports Keep No RecordHook One cell in my medal ledger is still empty. In December 2026, at the Sou...
The Table Nobody Published: 72 Percent and an Incomplete LedgerThe result reached me at seven in the evening, along with three scorecards:...
The Geometry of Kata in Nagoya: Vietnam's First Gold and What a 5-0 Scoreline Never ShowsSeptember 22, 2026, afternoon. Aichi-Nagoya, Japan. The women's team kata cou...
Vietnam's Team Kata Gold: The Succession Ledger Behind the Cropped HairHook The lights in the hall dipped a notch, and then three women bowed at...
UFC 331: The Ledger of a Style War — Tsarukyan's Spine, Ruffy's Knockout Radius, and a Market That Priced Only Half the RiskThe scale at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles read 155 pounds for both...
UFC 331: The Price Changed in Twelve Seconds, and the 155-Pound Ledger Still Has Empty CellsTwelve seconds. In the three halls I work out of in Kuala Lumpur, twelve...
Five Rounds and 92.9 Percent: The Two Numbers the UFC 331 Co-Main Never PricedThe tally came to 1,140 minutes. After the 2026 World Cup I sat down and...
42–41: One Touch of History, Ten Touches of CeilingOn the Rajshahi rooftop, ninety seconds became a way of listening. In June...