Martial Arts
The Empty Ledger: Who Keeps Bangladesh's Combat-Sports Records, and What Blockchain Can Actually Change
A Tie on the Sword, a Medal on the Spear: Duong Thuy Vi's Fourth Asian Games and the Unpublished Ledger of a Judged Sport
Vietnam's Two Bronzes at Asiad 20: Teqball, Kata and the Uneven Arithmetic of a Medal
The Arithmetic of 0.133 Points: Dương Thúy Vi, Wushu Taolu, and the Quiet Farewell of an Era
Four to Eight: Vietnam's Team Kata Gold and the Scoresheet I Couldn't Find
The Empty Ledger: Who Keeps Bangladesh's Combat-Sports Records, and What Blockchain Can Actually ChangeLast week I opened a file. The field for the title was empty. The field for t...
The Arithmetic of 0.133 Points: Dương Thúy Vi, Wushu Taolu, and the Quiet Farewell of an EraI like to count numbers, because numbers never lie. When the scoreboard lit u...
Four to Eight: Vietnam's Team Kata Gold and the Scoresheet I Couldn't FindI didn't watch it live. I watched a buffering Vietnamese feed from a small...
One Body Under Cropped Hair: The Real Ledger of Generational Change in Vietnam's Karate KataNobody asked for the first stream, which is exactly why it mattered. Thirteen...
Five Flags and 0.42: The Kata Gold Ledger Nagoya Refuses to ShowBefore the fifth flag came down in Nagoya, three numbers were already written...
A Tie on the Sword, a Medal on the Spear: Duong Thuy Vi's Fourth Asian Games and the Unpublished Ledger of a Judged SportAt the end of the morning routine the board placed two names side by side:...
Vietnam's Two Bronzes at Asiad 20: Teqball, Kata and the Uneven Arithmetic of a MedalI did not watch it live. It was three in the morning in a Nagoya apartment, t...
What a 5-0 Scoreboard Doesn't Say: A Gold Balanced on a Swollen Knee and Kata's Invisible EconomyThe first number you see when you open the report is 5-0. All five referees a...
Asiad 20: Vietnam's Repeat Karate Kata Gold and the Three Empty Boxes on the ScoreboardTwo numbers burned on the scoreboard in the women's team kata final — Vietnam...
The Arithmetic of 0.133 Points: Dương Thúy Vi, Wushu Taolu, and the Quiet Farewell of an EraI like to count numbers, because numbers never lie. When the scoreboard lit u...
Four to Eight: Vietnam's Team Kata Gold and the Scoresheet I Couldn't FindI didn't watch it live. I watched a buffering Vietnamese feed from a small...
One Body Under Cropped Hair: The Real Ledger of Generational Change in Vietnam's Karate KataNobody asked for the first stream, which is exactly why it mattered. Thirteen...
Five Flags and 0.42: The Kata Gold Ledger Nagoya Refuses to ShowBefore the fifth flag came down in Nagoya, three numbers were already written...
A Tie on the Sword, a Medal on the Spear: Duong Thuy Vi's Fourth Asian Games and the Unpublished Ledger of a Judged SportAt the end of the morning routine the board placed two names side by side:...
Vietnam's Two Bronzes at Asiad 20: Teqball, Kata and the Uneven Arithmetic of a MedalI did not watch it live. It was three in the morning in a Nagoya apartment, t...
What a 5-0 Scoreboard Doesn't Say: A Gold Balanced on a Swollen Knee and Kata's Invisible EconomyThe first number you see when you open the report is 5-0. All five referees a...
Asiad 20: Vietnam's Repeat Karate Kata Gold and the Three Empty Boxes on the ScoreboardTwo numbers burned on the scoreboard in the women's team kata final — Vietnam...
