Martial Arts
The Seventy-Two Percent Wall: Joshua Van's Takedown Geometry and Alexandre Pantoja's Final Round2026-09-27Thirteen of eighteen takedown attempts stopped. The scorecards read 50-45,...
42–41: The One Touch That Broke Singapore's Three-Games Wall2026-09-26Aichi Sky Expo, Hall Two, piste nine. The timer showed four seconds. The...
42–41 and 35–45: The Two Faces of Singapore's Épée Bronze2026-09-2742–41. That scoreline should not exist in a team épée relay. Under FIE rules ...
The File That Comes Back Empty: Bangladesh's Unwritten Combat-Sports Record2026-09-26Last month I opened a file. It should have held a date, a weigh-in sheet, a...
42–41 and 35–45: The Two Faces of Singapore's Épée Bronze42–41. That scoreline should not exist in a team épée relay. Under FIE rules ...
The Seventy-Two Percent Wall: Joshua Van's Takedown Geometry and Alexandre Pantoja's Final RoundThirteen of eighteen takedown attempts stopped. The scorecards read 50-45,...
The File That Comes Back Empty: Bangladesh's Unwritten Combat-Sports RecordLast month I opened a file. It should have held a date, a weigh-in sheet, a...
42–41: The One Touch That Broke Singapore's Three-Games WallAichi Sky Expo, Hall Two, piste nine. The timer showed four seconds. The...
The Scorecard Nobody Kept: Bangladesh Combat Sports and the Missing LedgerMarch 2026, the NSC Gymnasium. Day four of the national karate championship....
42–41: How Singapore's Épée Bronze Broke a Three-Games Bottleneck3:20 a.m. Laptop on the balcony in Nagoya, earphones in, a cup of tea that ha...
The Épée Ledger: Singapore's First Team Bronze, and the Ten-Touch Gap Nobody CountsThe scoreboard read 42–41. Women's team épée quarter-final at the Asian Games...
The Seventy-Two Percent Wall: Joshua Van's Takedown Geometry and Alexandre Pantoja's Final RoundThirteen of eighteen takedown attempts stopped. The scorecards read 50-45,...
The File That Comes Back Empty: Bangladesh's Unwritten Combat-Sports RecordLast month I opened a file. It should have held a date, a weigh-in sheet, a...
42–41: The One Touch That Broke Singapore's Three-Games WallAichi Sky Expo, Hall Two, piste nine. The timer showed four seconds. The...
The Scorecard Nobody Kept: Bangladesh Combat Sports and the Missing LedgerMarch 2026, the NSC Gymnasium. Day four of the national karate championship....
42–41: How Singapore's Épée Bronze Broke a Three-Games Bottleneck3:20 a.m. Laptop on the balcony in Nagoya, earphones in, a cup of tea that ha...
The Épée Ledger: Singapore's First Team Bronze, and the Ten-Touch Gap Nobody CountsThe scoreboard read 42–41. Women's team épée quarter-final at the Asian Games...