by Doug Nichols | Jan 25, 2016 | Blog Post, Borack, Carl, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches P - T, De Jong, Duris, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers P - T, Shurtz, Skip, Tronchet, Louis |
I like statistics. Not the kind you learn about in school really. More the kind that come about when you ask yourself questions like, “When will I get THAT done?” and “How many Aldo Nadi stories did I write last year?” (Correct answer for the second question is...
by Doug Nichols | Jan 18, 2016 | Blog Post, Coaches, Selberg, Charles |
Any trip to visit Charles Selberg would hardly have been considered a success without his regaling his visitor with some grand story. The subject of the story would often not offer the audience the associated grandeur, but rather the presentation of the tale – and...
by Doug Nichols | Jan 11, 2016 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches K - O, Coaches U - Z, Lane, Arthur, Uyttenhove, Henri, Visconti, Edward |
The year now gone we knew as 2015 saw the passing of long-time fencer, fencing master, fencing club founder and all around gentleman, Arthur Lane. Harold Hayes, another excellent gentleman who used to share teaching space with Arthur at his Pacific Fencers Club, came...
by Doug Nichols | Dec 21, 2015 | Blog Post, Borack, Carl, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers P - T, Shurtz, Skip |
Giorgio Santelli’s 1949 holiday card The first year of the West Coast Fencing Archive’s website is drawing to a close, so I thought I’d share some holiday cheer and a few thanks and thoughts. First, many thanks to my partner-in-history, Mark Headley, who also heads up...
by Doug Nichols | Dec 14, 2015 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Halberstadt, Hans |
It’s always entertaining to find some new reason to write about Hans Halberstadt, the namesake of the still-in-existence San Francisco fencing club (http://halberstadtfc.com/content/). In attempting to self-analyze why writing about Hans is so enjoyable for me, the...
