Martial Arts
Choosing the Right Yardstick for Vietnamese Martial ArtsAt 5:40 in the morning, Studio Two of the Nha Trang Sports Training Centre. T...
All Called Martial Arts: One Discipline's Scorecard Cannot Read Another's FightIn June 2026, the World Taekwondo Federation dropped the F and became World...
Taiko Rhythm Inside the Cage: Japanese Martial Arts and the Things Numbers Cannot CountOn the morning of March 3, 2026, inside a small dojo tucked deep in an alley ...
Empty Data and the Hunger for Verification: How Combat Sports Analysis Is Fooling ItselfIn the analysis briefing that reached me one morning, the headline field was...
The Wrong Ruler: When Vietnamese Martial Arts Are Read in the Language of Another SportI have a habit that a few colleagues consider mildly eccentric: after every...
Vietnamese Martial Arts: One Word, Three Worlds, and Problems That Cannot Share a Single YardstickOn the night of a professional MMA event final held in Ho Chi Minh City, I...
Former World Champion Inam Butt Faces Anti-Doping Crossroads: A Governance Lesson for Asian Combat SportsThe message from a colleague in Islamabad arrived on my phone in Nha Trang at...
Inam Butt's Sanction and the Gap Between Prescription and RulebookLast April, at the Asian Beach Games, Inam Butt won a silver medal in beach...
Vietnamese Martial Arts: Exporting Excellence, Leaving the Professional Market EmptyIn more than a decade of covering martial arts and combat sports for the Sout...
Inam Butt and the Suspended Sanction: Can a Silver Medal Save a Record That Has Already Bled?In April, on the sand mat of an Asian Beach Games, a Pakistani wrestler climb...
Inam Butt and the Doping Case: The Stripped Silver, and the Void Behind the Sigh of ReliefOn April 16, at an Asian beach wrestling event, Inam Butt stepped onto the...
Inam Butt and the two-month doping ban: The real cost is the silver medal, not the suspensionIn April this year, at the Asian Beach Games, Inam Butt stepped onto the podi...
Inam Butt: A Two-Month Suspension, a Silver Medal, and the Cost of a Late TUEPeople remember fighters through decisive moves. I remember Inam Butt through...
Eight Empty Tables: When Combat Sports Writes Its Own 'Analysis' With Zero FactsA document sat on my desk in Beijing for three weeks. It had eight tables....
All Called Martial Arts: One Discipline's Scorecard Cannot Read Another's FightIn June 2026, the World Taekwondo Federation dropped the F and became World...
Taiko Rhythm Inside the Cage: Japanese Martial Arts and the Things Numbers Cannot CountOn the morning of March 3, 2026, inside a small dojo tucked deep in an alley ...
Empty Data and the Hunger for Verification: How Combat Sports Analysis Is Fooling ItselfIn the analysis briefing that reached me one morning, the headline field was...
The Wrong Ruler: When Vietnamese Martial Arts Are Read in the Language of Another SportI have a habit that a few colleagues consider mildly eccentric: after every...
Vietnamese Martial Arts: One Word, Three Worlds, and Problems That Cannot Share a Single YardstickOn the night of a professional MMA event final held in Ho Chi Minh City, I...
Former World Champion Inam Butt Faces Anti-Doping Crossroads: A Governance Lesson for Asian Combat SportsThe message from a colleague in Islamabad arrived on my phone in Nha Trang at...
Inam Butt's Sanction and the Gap Between Prescription and RulebookLast April, at the Asian Beach Games, Inam Butt won a silver medal in beach...
Vietnamese Martial Arts: Exporting Excellence, Leaving the Professional Market EmptyIn more than a decade of covering martial arts and combat sports for the Sout...
Inam Butt and the Suspended Sanction: Can a Silver Medal Save a Record That Has Already Bled?In April, on the sand mat of an Asian Beach Games, a Pakistani wrestler climb...
Inam Butt and the Doping Case: The Stripped Silver, and the Void Behind the Sigh of ReliefOn April 16, at an Asian beach wrestling event, Inam Butt stepped onto the...
Inam Butt and the two-month doping ban: The real cost is the silver medal, not the suspensionIn April this year, at the Asian Beach Games, Inam Butt stepped onto the podi...
Inam Butt: A Two-Month Suspension, a Silver Medal, and the Cost of a Late TUEPeople remember fighters through decisive moves. I remember Inam Butt through...
Eight Empty Tables: When Combat Sports Writes Its Own 'Analysis' With Zero FactsA document sat on my desk in Beijing for three weeks. It had eight tables....