by Doug Nichols | Aug 12, 2019 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Coaches K - O, Faulkner, Ralph, Fencers, Fencers P - T, Mori, Torao, Okawa, Heziburo, Shurtz, Skip |
During an otherwise very pleasant Italian meal I shared with two-time, two-weapon National Champion and Olympian Sewall “Skip” Shurtz and Andy Shaw of the Museum of American Fencing, Andy mentioned that he’d come to appreciate, late in life, a difficult-to-like fencer...
by Doug Nichols | Aug 5, 2019 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Coaches K - O, Coaches P - T, Halberstadt, Hans, McDougall, John, Selberg, Charles |
Of the 13 million Germans mobilized for the First World War, over half were killed, wounded or taken prisoner. Hans Halberstadt and other survivors jumped into the Roaring Twenties with gusto. A decorated war hero, Hans came back home to Offenbach en Main and the...
by Doug Nichols | Jul 29, 2019 | Blog Post, Calvert, Delmart, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches K - O, Ellingson,Joy, Fencers, Fencers A - E, McDougall, John, Okawa, Heziburo, Selberg, Charles |
I drove from my Bay Area home last week to attend the memorial service for much-loved fencing master Delmar Calvert. He passed away a few months ago at the venerable age of 94 years, well loved, well cared for, and visited frequently by friends and former students...
by Doug Nichols | Jul 22, 2019 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Coaches U - Z, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Funke, Erich, Mayer, Helene, Uyttenhove, Henri |
There are many ways in which the scrapbook of Erich Funke d’Egnuff is a gold mine, not least of which are the amazing variety of newspaper photos of fencers. The scrapbook covers the years 1934 to about 1942 and the fencers of that time had a style all their...
by Doug Nichols | Jul 15, 2019 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Coaches U - Z, Funke, Erich, Halberstadt, Hans, Visconti, Edward |
There is a great photo hanging on the wall at the Halberstadt Fencers Club on South Van Ness in San Francisco that I’ve always admired. It shows four fencing masters sitting and watching a tournament at the Funke Fencing Academy when it was housed in the...
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...
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