by Doug Nichols | Oct 19, 2015 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches U - Z, Vince, Joseph |
A bit of a double meaning here. Just a quick update for the website today, as it’s a busy week in the land of the West Coast. The San Jose World Cup Men’s Foil event is taking place as I write this, so the weekend will be a busy time of avidly watching the...
by Doug Nichols | Oct 12, 2015 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches K - O, Coaches U - Z, Mori, Torao, Okawa, Heziburo, Vince, Joseph |
If you’ve been following along, you know that we (Archive helpers Jamie Douraghy and Greg Lynch doing the dirty work) salvaged material relating to the Joseph Vince Studio, Salle Mori and Heizaburo Okawa that had found its way to a dumpster. Some of the larger pieces...
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 | Jun 15, 2015 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches U - Z, Duff, John, Uyttenhove, Henri |
Captain John Duff. In some circles, his name still resonates. He won the second ever 24 hours of Le Mans auto race and was known as one of “The Bentley Boys”, the early drivers who, with their numerous victories all over Europe, put the Bentley...
by Doug Nichols | May 25, 2015 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Coaches U - Z, Halberstadt, Hans, Publications, Visconti, Edward |
I return to the pages of The Fencer today, to reprint (actually, re-type) an article written by Pierre Paret for the February, 1948 issue. A portrait of Hans Halberstadt. Behind the Mask Some years ago, a man who had taken a few lessons at the Young Italian...
by Doug Nichols | Feb 23, 2015 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches U - Z, Northern California, Schools/Clubs, UC Berkeley, Uyttenhove, Henri |
It’s fun to come across something that looks straightforward but winds up proving to be mysterious. At least in this case, I think it’s mysterious. I just hope it’s not mysterious for very long. I came across a series of four photographs that were dated November...
