by Doug Nichols | Sep 28, 2015 | Blog Post, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Fencers P - T, Mitchell, Maxine, Shurtz, Skip |
Well, I’m on a roll with this footage, so I’m just going to keep on going. We’re back at the 1958 Pacific Coast Championships. This time out, we’ve got the Women’s Foil Finals, pitting Olympic teammates Janice Lee York-Romary against Maxine Mitchell. Jan Romary...
by Doug Nichols | Sep 21, 2015 | Blog Post, California, Fencers K - O, Magay, Daniel, Tournaments |
As we here at The Archive continue to mine the amazing things found in the trove acquired from Heizaburo Okawa, I find myself drawn to the filmed elements we had transferred to digital. Like a lot of home movies shot in the days of yore, often the camera was loaded up...
by Doug Nichols | Sep 17, 2015 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches K - O, Coaches U - Z, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Mitchell, Maxine, Mori, Torao, Vince, Joseph |
To fulfill a request made by a concerned reader of our website, I now present… Fencing! It is, after all, what the website is purportedly about, yet I do tend to get caught up in personalities and storylines. Blame my upbringing. Still, a little fencing tournament...
by Doug Nichols | Sep 14, 2015 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Halberstadt, Hans |
After a too-long hiatus from posting to the site, I figured I’d start simple. But, like everything, there’s a bit more to the story. Over the summer, Friend of The Archive Jamie Douraghy had the excellent idea of calling me to let me know that retired fencing master...
by adminGreg | Aug 10, 2015 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches K - O, McDougall, John |
The language in the following cautionary tale is NSFW. It is also not suitable for youngsters. But it is an exemplary tale of why you should not draw the ire of your coach or maestro. The effect of such misjudgment can reverberate for a long time to come. Sit back and...
by adminGreg | Aug 6, 2015 | Blog Post, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Marx, Michael |
One of the things, we are also collecting here at the West Coast Fencing Archive, besides medals, blades, and posters is stories. We have a rich fencing tradition on the West Coast, but it is mostly known through oral tradition. In effort to preserve those stories,...
