by Doug Nichols | Nov 9, 2015 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Halberstadt, Hans |
I return this week to one of my favorite haunts. It being just past Halloween here in the US, it seems an appropriate time of year to do so. Thus, back in time we go to the Halberstadt School of Fencing – which is how the sign read that was painted on the door in...
by Doug Nichols | Nov 2, 2015 | Blog Post, Doug's Stories |
Let’s have some fun, in an advertising vein! I’ve run across some fun little ads in my time collecting fencing memorabilia, but I confess that all of the ads I’m posting today were collected by the inimitable Hans Halberstadt and were pasted into his scrapbooks that...
by Doug Nichols | Oct 26, 2015 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches P - T, Selberg, Charles |
One of the first stories published here on the West Coast Fencing Archive was about the how-to-fence series of film clips that Charles Selberg put together with his former employer, Bill Snyder of Bill Snyder Films, based in Fargo, ND, Charlie’s home town. You can...
by Doug Nichols | Oct 19, 2015 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches U - Z, Vince, Joseph |
A bit of a double meaning here. Just a quick update for the website today, as it’s a busy week in the land of the West Coast. The San Jose World Cup Men’s Foil event is taking place as I write this, so the weekend will be a busy time of avidly watching the...
by Doug Nichols | Oct 12, 2015 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches K - O, Coaches U - Z, Mori, Torao, Okawa, Heziburo, Vince, Joseph |
If you’ve been following along, you know that we (Archive helpers Jamie Douraghy and Greg Lynch doing the dirty work) salvaged material relating to the Joseph Vince Studio, Salle Mori and Heizaburo Okawa that had found its way to a dumpster. Some of the larger pieces...
by Doug Nichols | Oct 5, 2015 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches K - O, Okawa, Heziburo |
Heizaburo Okawa has been quite a few places and seen a lot. And accomplished a fair bit in the process. Let’s run it down, shall we? Three time Olympian for Japan: 1960, 1964 and 1968, competing in all three weapons in 1964. Three time Japanese National Foil...
