by Doug Nichols | Apr 13, 2020 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches K - O, Coaches P - T, D'Asaro, Michael, McDougall, John, Nottingham, Jack, Selberg, Charles |
Some time back, I wrote a story about Boffers: (Boffing Article!) Designed by fencer/coach Jack Nottingham, they were the Rolls-Royce of polyethylene toy swords. They could be found for sale via mail order from the Whole Earth Catalog, the 1960s version of Google,...
by Doug Nichols | Mar 16, 2020 | Angell, Tommy, Blog Post, Borack, Carl, Calvert, Delmart, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches F - J, Coaches U - Z, D'Asaro, Michael, Faulkner, Ralph, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers K - O, Halberstadt, Hans, King, Harriet, Mitchell, Maxine, Nonomura, George, Posters, Posters California, Posters National, Schools/Clubs, UC Berkeley, Uyttenhove, Henri |
The 1971 US National Championships were held on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, commonly known as Cal. The locals did pretty well, too! Carl Borack from LA made the finals in all three weapons and the Women’s Foil finals had 6 women from...
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 | Feb 17, 2020 | Biagini, Gerard, Blog Post, Boyd, Andrew, Coaches, Coaches K - O, Coaches P - T, Coaches U - Z, Duff, John, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers K - O, Fencers P - T, Magay, Daniel, McDougall, John, Northern California, Piller, George, Schools/Clubs, Snyder, Al, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Uyttenhove, Henri, Zold, Ferenc |
At some point I will outgrown my available storage. It’s not in any way imminent, but down the road it will be something to deal with. Storage space wasn’t a consideration when I began to purchase relatively low cost university annuals on Ebay. Now that...
by Doug Nichols | Dec 23, 2019 | Blog Post, Bower, Muriel, Bradford, Vinnie, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches F - J, Coaches K - O, Coaches P - T, Coaches U - Z, Craus, Polly, De Jong, Duris, Faulkner, Ralph, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers K - O, Fencers P - T, Jan York, Marki, Ferenc, Mitchell, Maxine, Mori, Torao, Nadi, Aldo, Okawa, Heziburo, Piller, George, Romary, Uyttenhove, Henri, Vince, Joseph |
Driving around Southern California may not seem like much of a Holiday, especially when traveling alone, but a recent weekend outmatched all my expectations. The plan was to make four different stops in hopes of collecting fencing history. All four planned stops...
by Doug Nichols | Nov 4, 2019 | Blog Post, Bradford, Vinnie, Clark Skillman, Laurel, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches F - J, D'Asaro, Gay, D'Asaro, Michael, Ellingson,Joy, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers K - O, Halberstadt, Hans, Johnson, Stacey, King, Harriet, Northern California, San Jose State University, Schools/Clubs, Stanford |
The last article I wrote, which featured Michael D’Asaro’s time in San Antonio and the Army, got me thinking about one of the reasons I decided to attend San Jose State to train with him. That reason was the awesome strength of his Women’s foil...
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