Martial Arts
Recounting Vovinam's 15 SEA Games Golds: A Vietnamese Martial Art Narrowing Its Own ArenaOn May 21, 2026, at the Bac Tu Liem Arena in Hanoi. I sat in the seventh row,...
Vietnam's Empty Dossiers: When Nobody Classifies the Discipline, No Conclusion HoldsMy computer holds a folder named with nine characters: VN-VO-01. Inside are...
Three Rulesets Under One Word: The Cost of Lumping Martial Arts TogetherIn December 2026, a 21-year-old Chinese fighter named Yang Jian Bing stepped...
Three Scoring Systems, Three Narratives: Why Combat Sports Analysis Cannot Share One RulerA stadium was so quiet that I could hear the match itself breathing. That...
Inam Butt: The Empty Chair, a Two-Month Suspension, and the TUE TrapLast Friday, Pakistan's The News ran a short item that almost no one noticed....
Inam Butt and the Price of a TUE: When Pakistan's Beach Wrestling Legend Faces SanctionOn an April night, on the sand of the Asian Beach Games, Inam Butt stepped on...
V-League is Quietly Changing: 3-4-3 Is Not a Playing Style — It Is How Coaches Avoid AccountabilityMinute 67, My Dinh Stadium. Tien Linh receives the ball at the edge of the...
Vietnamese Martial Arts on the Professional Stage: The Gaps Nobody Has ScreenedDA NANG, 5:12 a.m. In a rented room along Nguyen Tat Thanh Street, a...
When the Drumbeat Goes Unheard: The Record Keeper and a Season of Quiet SignalsThe stands are empty but the heart still beats in rhythm. I have written that...
Inam Butt, the Silver Medal, and a Medical File That Missed Its DeadlineIn April, on a beach wrestling mat, Inam Butt won a silver medal. He is a...
Inam Butt's doping case: A two-month ban, one silver medal, and four roles held by a single manIn April, on the sand of an Asian beach sports festival, Inam Butt stepped on...
The Unhealed Fracture of Vietnamese Combat Sports: The Scale, the Hamstring and the Abandoned Medical FileSaturday night, in a venue in District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, the electronic...
Inam Butt, a Two-Month Ban and the Silver Medal That Cannot Save HimLast April, on the sand of the Asian Beach Games, Inam Butt stepped onto the...
Inam Butt, a Two-Month Suspension and the Real Price of a Bottle of Eye DropsAt the Asian Beach Games medal ceremony last April, Inam Butt stood in second...
One Missing Column, and the Combat Sports Analysis Table Comes Back EmptyIt was three in the morning when I reopened the eight-dimension table I use f...
Vietnamese Martial Arts and the Ruler Trap: When Analysts Pick the Wrong Frame of ReferenceIn September 2026, I sat in the seventh row of an arena in Hai Phong, watchin...
Inam Butt: A Short Ban Cannot Save a Silver Medal Already LostInam Butt: A Short Ban Cannot Save a Silver Medal Already Lost In wrestling,...
Vietnam's Empty Dossiers: When Nobody Classifies the Discipline, No Conclusion HoldsMy computer holds a folder named with nine characters: VN-VO-01. Inside are...
Three Rulesets Under One Word: The Cost of Lumping Martial Arts TogetherIn December 2026, a 21-year-old Chinese fighter named Yang Jian Bing stepped...
Three Scoring Systems, Three Narratives: Why Combat Sports Analysis Cannot Share One RulerA stadium was so quiet that I could hear the match itself breathing. That...
Inam Butt: The Empty Chair, a Two-Month Suspension, and the TUE TrapLast Friday, Pakistan's The News ran a short item that almost no one noticed....
Inam Butt and the Price of a TUE: When Pakistan's Beach Wrestling Legend Faces SanctionOn an April night, on the sand of the Asian Beach Games, Inam Butt stepped on...
V-League is Quietly Changing: 3-4-3 Is Not a Playing Style — It Is How Coaches Avoid AccountabilityMinute 67, My Dinh Stadium. Tien Linh receives the ball at the edge of the...
Vietnamese Martial Arts on the Professional Stage: The Gaps Nobody Has ScreenedDA NANG, 5:12 a.m. In a rented room along Nguyen Tat Thanh Street, a...
When the Drumbeat Goes Unheard: The Record Keeper and a Season of Quiet SignalsThe stands are empty but the heart still beats in rhythm. I have written that...
Inam Butt, the Silver Medal, and a Medical File That Missed Its DeadlineIn April, on a beach wrestling mat, Inam Butt won a silver medal. He is a...
Inam Butt's doping case: A two-month ban, one silver medal, and four roles held by a single manIn April, on the sand of an Asian beach sports festival, Inam Butt stepped on...
The Unhealed Fracture of Vietnamese Combat Sports: The Scale, the Hamstring and the Abandoned Medical FileSaturday night, in a venue in District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, the electronic...
Inam Butt, a Two-Month Ban and the Silver Medal That Cannot Save HimLast April, on the sand of the Asian Beach Games, Inam Butt stepped onto the...
Inam Butt, a Two-Month Suspension and the Real Price of a Bottle of Eye DropsAt the Asian Beach Games medal ceremony last April, Inam Butt stood in second...
One Missing Column, and the Combat Sports Analysis Table Comes Back EmptyIt was three in the morning when I reopened the eight-dimension table I use f...
Vietnamese Martial Arts and the Ruler Trap: When Analysts Pick the Wrong Frame of ReferenceIn September 2026, I sat in the seventh row of an arena in Hai Phong, watchin...
Inam Butt: A Short Ban Cannot Save a Silver Medal Already LostInam Butt: A Short Ban Cannot Save a Silver Medal Already Lost In wrestling,...
