by Doug Nichols | Apr 1, 2019 | Blog Post, Bradford, Vinnie, California, Clark Skillman, Laurel, Coaches, D'Asaro, Michael, Ellingson,Joy, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers F - J, Johnson, Stacey, National Tournament, Northern California, San Jose State University, Schools/Clubs, Tournaments, Tournaments 1981 - 1990 |
Everything has a first time and 1982 was the year of the first Women’s Foil championship for the NCAA. Held at my now-alma mater San Jose State University, thus putting me at the time in close proximity to the goings on, I remain in the dark as to why exactly the...
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...
by Doug Nichols | Nov 30, 2015 | Blog Post, Carnighan, Len, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Tournaments, Tournaments 1971-1980 |
It’s a holiday weekend around here, so I won’t write much. I just thought it might be nice to show a couple more bouts from the ’79 Junior Worlds, recorded on video by Len Carnighan. If you missed the first story, it’s here: 1979 Junior World Championships,...
by Doug Nichols | Sep 21, 2015 | Blog Post, California, Fencers K - O, Magay, Daniel, Tournaments |
As we here at The Archive continue to mine the amazing things found in the trove acquired from Heizaburo Okawa, I find myself drawn to the filmed elements we had transferred to digital. Like a lot of home movies shot in the days of yore, often the camera was loaded up...
by Doug Nichols | May 21, 2015 | Blog Post, Burchard, Peter, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches K - O, Coaches P - T, D'Asaro, Gay, D'Asaro, Michael, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers K - O, Marx, Michael, Massialas, Greg, Need Help, O'Brien, William, San Jose State University, Schools/Clubs, Selberg, Charles, Tournaments, Tournaments 1971-1980, Tournaments 1981 - 1990 |
Continuing on with the same topic as our last post, we return again to the Women’s Gymnasium at San Jose State University. There have been a number of comments from the previous set with some corrections that I’ll tweak when I get a second – thanks for the notes,...
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