by Doug Nichols | Sep 9, 2019 | Blog Post, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Mayer, Helene |
It’s a struggle to not take cheap shots at the drawings in old fencing books, at least for me. Sometimes though, the artist’s interpretation of the message the author is trying to convey is just too good to forego a bit of a laugh. Take the above photo,...
by Doug Nichols | Sep 2, 2019 | Blog Post, Cabrillo College, Carnighan, Len, Clark Skillman, Laurel, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches K - O, Coaches P - T, D'Asaro, Gay, D'Asaro, Michael, Ellingson,Joy, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers K - O, Marki, Ferenc, McDougall, John, Moore-Selberg, Julie, Northern California, Nottingham, Jack, Okawa, Heziburo, San Jose State University, Schools/Clubs, Selberg, Charles, The Fencing Center |
You don’t forget your first team, or your first teammates. The fortuitous circumstances surrounding my introduction to fencing couldn’t be more memorable; a time filled with remarkable personalities. Fencing was my first college course. Fencing, the game I’d always...
by Doug Nichols | Aug 26, 2019 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Halberstadt, Hans |
If you have ever taken the time to peruse the backlog of stories on this site, you may have run across a few older posts that had collections of newspaper comics that include a fencing reference. Well, it’s that time again! And if you haven’t checked out...
by Doug Nichols | Aug 19, 2019 | Biagini, Gerard, Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Coaches K - O, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers K - O, Fencers P - T, Halberstadt, Hans, Lane, Arthur, Mayer, Helene, Snyder, Al |
Typically, US National Foil Champions are reasonably well documented, particularly in their home town. That doesn’t seem to be the case with Alfred R. Snyder, 1944 US foil champion. Andy Shaw, the USA Fencing Historian and owner/proprietor/chief dog rescuer at the...
by Doug Nichols | Aug 12, 2019 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Coaches K - O, Faulkner, Ralph, Fencers, Fencers P - T, Mori, Torao, Okawa, Heziburo, Shurtz, Skip |
During an otherwise very pleasant Italian meal I shared with two-time, two-weapon National Champion and Olympian Sewall “Skip” Shurtz and Andy Shaw of the Museum of American Fencing, Andy mentioned that he’d come to appreciate, late in life, a difficult-to-like fencer...
by Doug Nichols | Aug 5, 2019 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Coaches K - O, Coaches P - T, Halberstadt, Hans, McDougall, John, Selberg, Charles |
Of the 13 million Germans mobilized for the First World War, over half were killed, wounded or taken prisoner. Hans Halberstadt and other survivors jumped into the Roaring Twenties with gusto. A decorated war hero, Hans came back home to Offenbach en Main and the...
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