by Doug Nichols | Jun 12, 2017 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Halberstadt, Hans, Mayer, Helene |
I’ve been perusing the pages of “The California Fencer”, later just “The Fencer”, a West Coast publication that circulated for a few years following WW2 and prior to the start of the national American Fencer magazine. I’ve written about it before, but in short,...
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 | 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 17, 2016 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches P - T, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Fencers P - T, Magay, Daniel, Piller, George, Shurtz, Skip, Tournaments |
The 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia comes up frequently around here. It was, after all, the tournament from which many Hungarian athletes made the difficult decision to not return to their country. The challenging notion of having to make such a fateful...
by Doug Nichols | Oct 10, 2016 | Blog Post, California, Fencers K - O, Marx, Michael, Massialas, Greg, National Tournament, Nonomura, George, Tournaments, Tournaments 1981 - 1990 |
I confess that it has been hard to sit down and find the wherewithal to come up with a story in the past weeks. Since the death of my first coach, Len Carnighan, it’s been frankly a challenge. For those of you who don’t know, we here at the West Coast Fencing...
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