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 31, 2016 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches A - E, D'Asaro, Michael, Doug's Stories, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Marx, Michael, Massialas, Greg |
Between my own collection and some donations to The Archive over the last couple of years, I think I have every edition of the Fencing Times that were published beginning, I believe, in 1980. It was nominally the So Cal Division newsletter, but for those of us that...
by Doug Nichols | May 3, 2016 | Blog Post, Doug's Stories |
I’m just back from my second ever visit to Andy Shaw’s fabulous Museum of American Fencing in Shreveport, Louisiana. What’s that? Never been to Shreveport? Well, it IS out of the way for most folks. It’s not a big town, but there are still some sights to see. And...
by Doug Nichols | Nov 16, 2015 | Blog Post, Doug's Stories |
Here are some pictures of some of my favorite fencers that have come from France. Not in any order, other than the order by which I came across them. Christian d’Oriola Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic movement. Pascal Jolyot Jean Buhan...
by Doug Nichols | Nov 2, 2015 | Blog Post, Doug's Stories |
Let’s have some fun, in an advertising vein! I’ve run across some fun little ads in my time collecting fencing memorabilia, but I confess that all of the ads I’m posting today were collected by the inimitable Hans Halberstadt and were pasted into his scrapbooks that...
by Doug Nichols | Jan 6, 2015 | Blog Post, Doug's Stories |
Nickolas Muray Photographer, Fencer, Medal Designer One of the first external jobs undertaken by the WCFA was documenting the collection of Halberstadt Fencers Club in San Francisco. Halberstadt is one of, if not the oldest fencing clubs on the West Coast. The...
