by Doug Nichols | Mar 14, 2016 | Blog Post, Calvert, Delmart, Coaches, Coaches A - E |
Dateline: February, 2014. My afternoon with Delmar Calvert, French-trained fencing master, winner of the French Croix de Guerre, former member of the Foreign Legion, and all around nice guy, was a wonderful experience and we’ve finally found a nice bit of the...
by Doug Nichols | Mar 7, 2016 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches K - O, McDougall, John |
I know I’ve written about John McDougall in the past, but can you say too much about John? I’m thinking that you really can’t. Let’s run through the highlights. Started fencing at Stanford in the mid-1950’s. Trained with Aldo Nadi and George Piller. Hired Julius...
by Doug Nichols | Feb 8, 2016 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches P - T, Selberg, Charles |
Rather than making things suspenseful, as in, “How will I ever learn how to fence properly if the West Coast Fencing Archive doesn’t continue to post more of the Selberg Instructional Series?!” sort of suspense, I’ve opted for stringing the next three installments...
by Doug Nichols | Jan 25, 2016 | Blog Post, Borack, Carl, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches P - T, De Jong, Duris, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers P - T, Shurtz, Skip, Tronchet, Louis |
I like statistics. Not the kind you learn about in school really. More the kind that come about when you ask yourself questions like, “When will I get THAT done?” and “How many Aldo Nadi stories did I write last year?” (Correct answer for the second question is...
by Doug Nichols | Jan 18, 2016 | Blog Post, Coaches, Selberg, Charles |
Any trip to visit Charles Selberg would hardly have been considered a success without his regaling his visitor with some grand story. The subject of the story would often not offer the audience the associated grandeur, but rather the presentation of the tale – and...
by Doug Nichols | Jan 11, 2016 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches K - O, Coaches U - Z, Lane, Arthur, Uyttenhove, Henri, Visconti, Edward |
The year now gone we knew as 2015 saw the passing of long-time fencer, fencing master, fencing club founder and all around gentleman, Arthur Lane. Harold Hayes, another excellent gentleman who used to share teaching space with Arthur at his Pacific Fencers Club, came...
