by Doug Nichols | Mar 9, 2020 | Blog Post, Carnighan, Len, Coaches, Coaches K - O, Coaches P - T, McDougall, John, Selberg, Charles |
Time flies when you’re having fun and it’s been almost 4 years since I shared any of Charles Selberg’s Instructional Film Loop series, so let’s dive back in! Since it has been so long, here’s a little review of just what in the world...
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 | Jul 8, 2019 | Blog Post, Carnighan, Len, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches F - J, Coaches K - O, Coaches U - Z, Halberstadt, Hans, Mori, Torao, Northern California, Okawa, Heziburo, Schools/Clubs, Stanford, Vince, Joseph |
I confess, I don’t know a whole lot about Kendo. Outside of the countless samurai films I’ve seen (which I don’t pretend are representative of Kendo), I’ve only been around the sport a couple of times. On my very first fencing team, the best guy had picked up a foil...
by Doug Nichols | Jun 24, 2019 | Blog Post, Carnighan, Len, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches F - J, Faulkner, Ralph, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Marx, Bob, Marx, Michael, Oregon, Schools/Clubs, Studio of American Fencing |
If you’ve been checking in here regularly, you’ll know I frequently haunt the corridors of that virtual thrift store known as Ebay. Sometimes I find things of fencing interest, sometimes I don’t. It’s a mix of disappointment and fascination. ...
by Doug Nichols | Jun 3, 2019 | Blog Post, Bradford, Vinnie, Carnighan, Len, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches K - O, Coaches P - T, D'Asaro, Gay, D'Asaro, Michael, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers K - O, Massialas, Greg, Northern California, Okawa, Heziburo, San Jose State University, Schools/Clubs, Selberg, Charles |
It’s impossible to know why these things happen. They can’t be planned for or expected yet I’ve been experiencing more than my share of these types of events since starting this archive and I couldn’t be happier about it. This is simply the latest. I hope talking...
by Doug Nichols | Sep 19, 2016 | Blog Post, Carnighan, Len, Coaches |
“Do you not know that a man is not dead if his name is still spoken?” – Terry Pratchett My first fencing coach, Len Carnighan, died a week ago today, September 11, 2016. I was in his first class at Cabrillo College in the fall of 1977. It was his first...
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