by Doug Nichols | Sep 7, 2021 | Baker, Jack, Biagini, Gerard, Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Coaches K - O, Coaches U - Z, Faulkner, Ralph, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers K - O, Fencers P - T, Funke, Erich, Greco, Anthony, Halberstadt, Hans, Lane, Arthur, Mayer, Helene, Nadi, Aldo, O'Brien, William, Shurtz, Skip, Visconti, Edward |
The Latin meaning of that, according to Google Translate, is “Wine of the Spirit”. As a philistine in the ways of Latin, I’ll have to accept it. No clue. Truly. Still, I’m willing to forge ahead, bracing myself for the potentiality of a...
by Doug Nichols | Aug 10, 2020 | Blog Post, Borack, Carl, Bradford, Vinnie, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches K - O, Coaches P - T, Coaches U - Z, D'Asaro, Michael, De Jong, Duris, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers F - J, Fencers K - O, Fencers P - T, Johnson, Stacey, Marx, Bob, Marx, Michael, Mayer, Helene, Mori, Torao, Nadi, Aldo, Northern California, Oregon, Richards, Ed, San Jose State University, Schifrin, Peter, Schools/Clubs, Vince, Joseph, Washington |
A number of things have come my way recently through various paths. Taken individually, they add to the collection in nice ways, but don’t necessarily give me the grist to crank out a full story around them. I thought it might be fun to drop them instead in a...
by Doug Nichols | Jul 13, 2020 | Angell, Tommy, Blog Post, Brownlee, Laurance, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches F - J, Coaches K - O, Coaches U - Z, De Jong, Duris, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers F - J, Halberstadt, Hans, Huddleson, Demi, Mori, Torao, Vince, Joseph |
When I struggle with ideas for writing about fencing history for this site, I have a couple of favorite fallback topics. If you’ve been reading for awhile, you can probably guess most of them. Aldo Nadi, Helene Mayer, Hans Halberstadt. All three of those...
by Doug Nichols | Jul 6, 2020 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches F - J, Coaches K - O, Coaches U - Z, De Jong, Duris, Duff, John, Faulkner, Ralph, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Lane, Arthur, Mayer, Helene, Uyttenhove, Henri |
I’m not sure of the original source for the story, but it goes like this. In the early days of the AFLA, precursor to today’s USA Fencing, the East Coast was in charge. They had more fencers, more coaches, more clubs, and darn it, they started the...
by Doug Nichols | Jun 8, 2020 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches U - Z, Vince, Joseph |
It was graduation week for my schooled-by-Zoom High School Senior son this week, so I thought I’d put together an album of the best of the magazine covers featuring fencing from the Archive collection. I thought I’d go from most recent to oldest, so the...
by Doug Nichols | Apr 6, 2020 | Biagini, Gerard, Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Coaches K - O, Coaches U - Z, Craus, Polly, Faulkner, Ralph, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers P - T, Funke, Erich, Halberstadt, Hans, Jan York, Lane, Arthur, Nadi, Aldo, Uyttenhove, Henri, Vince, Joseph |
I love running across old photos of fencers. It doesn’t matter who’s in them or what condition they’re in for me to be fascinated with the discovery and the challenge of putting names to faces. Sometimes, although not very often, I get the...
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