Martial Arts
Épée Team Bronze: Singapore's First Podium on an Aichi Piste, and the Ten-Touch Margin Against Korea
Short Hair, Double the Field: The Empty Column Between Vietnam's Two Team-Kata Golds
The Fold in the Tatami and the Rhythm of Three: Vietnam's First Asian Games Gold and the Ledger of Team Kata
Five Flags, Nine Blank Rows: Vietnam's Karate Gold and the Ledger Nobody Filed
Martial ArtsShort Hair, Double the Field: The Empty Column Between Vietnam's Two Team-Kata GoldsHook On the evening of 22 September, the first thing I paused the stream for...
Martial ArtsThe Fold in the Tatami and the Rhythm of Three: Vietnam's First Asian Games Gold and the Ledger of Team KataSeptember 22, 2026, late afternoon turning toward evening. A fold had appeare...
Martial ArtsFive Flags, Nine Blank Rows: Vietnam's Karate Gold and the Ledger Nobody FiledFive judges. Five flags. On a karate mat in a Japanese venue, three Vietnames...
Martial ArtsBronze at 19.413: The Farewell Audit Hidden Inside Vietnam's 'Evergreen' Wushu LabelHook The scoreboard at the 20th Asian Games wushu taolu venue lit up three...
Martial Arts42–41 in a Race to 45: The Ledger That Absorbed Singapore's First Épée Team BronzeFour in the morning, Dhaka. Aichi Sky Expo on the screen, and in my hand the...
Martial ArtsFinished Before 45: The Real Arithmetic of Singapore's Épée BronzeTeam épée quarter-final at the Games, final relay. Uzbekistan were well ahead...
Martial ArtsÉpée Team Bronze: Singapore's First Podium on an Aichi Piste, and the Ten-Touch Margin Against KoreaThe fencing hall at Aichi Sky Expo emptied late that night. After the last bo...
Martial Arts42–41: The Single Touch That Broke Singapore Fencing's Three-Games WallI did not watch the touch live. I was at a mamak stall in Kuala Lumpur,...
Martial Arts42-41: The One Touch That Opened Singapore's Fencing HistoryAt 3:30 a.m., from my apartment in Nagoya, I watched the replay of the...
Martial Arts42–41: The Single Touch That Broke Singapore's Three-Games Epee WallThe clock at the Aichi Sky Expo was pressing toward nine-thirty. In the women...
Martial ArtsÉpée Bronze, Korean Distance: The Numbers Inside Singapore's First Team MedalAt two in the morning on a Khulna balcony, the scoreboard on my laptop read...
Martial ArtsThe Arithmetic of Blades: The 42–41 Drama, the 35–45 Truth, and Singapore's First Team Épée BronzeA team épée match runs to 45 touches. Singapore and Uzbekistan stopped at...
Martial ArtsLedger of the Blade: How Singapore’s Team Épée Bronze Wrote a New Line Into the Funding SheetThree seconds of accounting. The women’s team épée quarter-final had slid int...
Martial ArtsThe Fold in the Tatami and the Rhythm of Three: Vietnam's First Asian Games Gold and the Ledger of Team KataSeptember 22, 2026, late afternoon turning toward evening. A fold had appeare...
Martial ArtsFive Flags, Nine Blank Rows: Vietnam's Karate Gold and the Ledger Nobody FiledFive judges. Five flags. On a karate mat in a Japanese venue, three Vietnames...
Martial ArtsBronze at 19.413: The Farewell Audit Hidden Inside Vietnam's 'Evergreen' Wushu LabelHook The scoreboard at the 20th Asian Games wushu taolu venue lit up three...
Martial Arts42–41 in a Race to 45: The Ledger That Absorbed Singapore's First Épée Team BronzeFour in the morning, Dhaka. Aichi Sky Expo on the screen, and in my hand the...
Martial ArtsFinished Before 45: The Real Arithmetic of Singapore's Épée BronzeTeam épée quarter-final at the Games, final relay. Uzbekistan were well ahead...
Martial ArtsÉpée Team Bronze: Singapore's First Podium on an Aichi Piste, and the Ten-Touch Margin Against KoreaThe fencing hall at Aichi Sky Expo emptied late that night. After the last bo...
Martial Arts42–41: The Single Touch That Broke Singapore Fencing's Three-Games WallI did not watch the touch live. I was at a mamak stall in Kuala Lumpur,...
Martial Arts42-41: The One Touch That Opened Singapore's Fencing HistoryAt 3:30 a.m., from my apartment in Nagoya, I watched the replay of the...
Martial Arts42–41: The Single Touch That Broke Singapore's Three-Games Epee WallThe clock at the Aichi Sky Expo was pressing toward nine-thirty. In the women...
Martial ArtsÉpée Bronze, Korean Distance: The Numbers Inside Singapore's First Team MedalAt two in the morning on a Khulna balcony, the scoreboard on my laptop read...
Martial ArtsThe Arithmetic of Blades: The 42–41 Drama, the 35–45 Truth, and Singapore's First Team Épée BronzeA team épée match runs to 45 touches. Singapore and Uzbekistan stopped at...
Martial ArtsLedger of the Blade: How Singapore’s Team Épée Bronze Wrote a New Line Into the Funding SheetThree seconds of accounting. The women’s team épée quarter-final had slid int...