by adminGreg | May 28, 2015 |
George Piller This Archive has produced a feature length documentary on the amazing life of this great man and I hope you will make an effort to watch our film. In short, George Piller was an unmatched fencer and coach. Winner of multiple World Championships and the...
by adminGreg | Mar 5, 2015 |
Ed RichardsA very successful competitive career saw Ed Richards winning back-to-back foil National Championships, an Olympic team birth in 1964, and medals from three Pan American Games.When he became a coach, he started out in the Boston area with his namesake club,...
by adminGreg | Jan 10, 2015 |
Charlie Selberg Charles Selberg, Charlie to most, was a Fargo, ND native who discovered fencing at San Francisco State where he received his BA and MA with studio art being his primary focus. His first teacher was the long-time coach at SFSU, Erich...
by adminGreg | Jan 12, 2015 |
Louis Tronchet French-trained fencing master Louis Tronchet was hired to teach at San Francisco’s Olympic Club in 1888 after a successful and highly publicized match in New York City. Tronchet brought classic French technique to San Francisco and worked...
by adminGreg | Jan 11, 2015 |
Henri Uyttenhove Belgian-born fencing master Henri Uyttenhove first trained at, and then assumed the directorship of, the Belgian Normal School for Fencing. He ran that program for two years before emigrating to the United States and settling in Pasadena, CA. Over his...
