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 | May 20, 2019 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Coaches K - O, Coaches U - Z, Faulkner, Ralph, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Halberstadt, Hans, Magay, Daniel, Mitchell, Maxine, Nadi, Aldo, Orley, Schools/Clubs, Southern California, Uyttenhove, Henri, Vince, Joseph |
No, not the classic Bob Welch era Fleetwood Mac album, although that does contain one of my favorite songs of all time, “Hypnotized”. The mystery to me today is fencing master John McKee from Southern California who trained hundreds and hundreds of fencers over...
by Doug Nichols | Jun 1, 2017 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches F - J, Coaches K - O, Coaches P - T, Coaches U - Z, D'Asaro, Michael, Doug's Stories, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Halberstadt, Hans, Mayer, Helene, McDougall, John, Mitchell, Maxine, Mori, Torao, Okawa, Heziburo, Selberg, Charles, Vince, Joseph |
Fear. That’s the thing. It’s a motivator for me. Not the average, everyday kind of fear, nor an amorphous fear of zombies or clowns. Rather, the fear of loss. A very specific kind of loss. The loss of fencing history. I don’t know why it gets to me so much, but it...
by Doug Nichols | Oct 24, 2016 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Coaches U - Z, Craus, Polly, Faulkner, Ralph, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers K - O, Fencers P - T, Jan York, King, Harriet, Romary, Vince, Joseph |
Janice Lee York Romary was the US National Foil Champion ten times in a span of 18 years from the first win to the last. She represented the United States at the Olympic Games a then-record six times. She finished just off the medal stand twice, taking fourth in...
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...
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