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...
by Doug Nichols | Dec 8, 2015 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches K - O, Nadi, Aldo |
Ah, Aldo Nadi. I get itchy if I don’t publish something about him every now and again, so let’s get settled in for a fun little bit right from the source. I’ve used The Fencer magazine as a source previously. It was a 2-plus year endeavor by a number of fencers...
by Doug Nichols | Nov 30, 2015 | Blog Post, Carnighan, Len, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Tournaments, Tournaments 1971-1980 |
It’s a holiday weekend around here, so I won’t write much. I just thought it might be nice to show a couple more bouts from the ’79 Junior Worlds, recorded on video by Len Carnighan. If you missed the first story, it’s here: 1979 Junior World Championships,...
by Doug Nichols | Nov 23, 2015 | Blog Post, Carnighan, Len, Coaches, Coaches A - E |
The truth is, I’ve been saving this one. Not for any particular reason, but this competition holds a great deal of personal significance for me. Not because I was in it; I’d barely been fencing a year, nor did I ever get close to this level of ability by any stretch...
by Doug Nichols | Nov 16, 2015 | Blog Post, Doug's Stories |
Here are some pictures of some of my favorite fencers that have come from France. Not in any order, other than the order by which I came across them. Christian d’Oriola Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic movement. Pascal Jolyot Jean Buhan...
