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Post by schlager7 on Mar 1, 2006 10:00:36 GMT -6
Some recent activity on this board has prompted this thread, for the benefit of our out of state visitors to this forum.
Classical fencing does not currently enjoy a strong foothold in Texas. I gave Kim Moser's old Classical Fencing Resources website a look, just for a reference.
This is what it had:
Texas
Pierrot Productions -- Seabrook, TX. Contact Richard Alvarez, email pierrot{at}flash{dot}net.
Christian Darcé -- Houston, TX. Email cdarce{at}woodenswords{dot}com. Historical swordsmanship: early rapier, cut & thrust sword, long sword.
Nicholas Iago Gershberg -- Austin, TX (fall and spring only; other times see New York). Email pistolix{at}aol{dot}com, phone (512)-481-1737, mail 2917 Rio Grande St., Austin, TX 78705. French & Italian foil, Italian sabre.
I should add that Richard Alvarez now resides in California. I know nothing about Mr. Gershberg in Austin.
Christian Darce runs a business, Purpleheart Armory, just north of Houston, but his field is more historical than classical.
Dana Andersen-Wyman, the theatre instructor at Brazosport College in Lake Jackson, Tx, was taught by Charles Selberg, so his foil instruction is probably classical in the Nick Evangelista sense of classical.
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Post by cfaustus on Mar 1, 2006 12:00:26 GMT -6
Seeing as you are located closer to our Missouri branch, you might try contacting David Achilleus about coming to do a workshop with you. He might be able/willing to work something out with you.
His email is: achilleus{at}kabalfencing{dot}org
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Post by schlager7 on Mar 1, 2006 19:17:08 GMT -6
I also received this response...
Dear John, can't help sending you a hello message tho my fencing days in Texas were from 1949-1956. I grew up in Ft. Worth and fenced mostly during college at TCU-but I met some gentlemen who fenced with the then-Ft. Worth Fencing club-classical fencers all of 'em.
My father, known as Tex Ray Smith taught fencing at the Y as part of his Manly Art of Self-Defense course which included boxing and judo as well as fencing. I just mention these things to show that there is some history in Texas of classical fencing.
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Post by Brian R Price on May 3, 2006 15:22:40 GMT -6
We have a program also for Italian rapier: www.scholasaintgeorge.org. The Austin group never really got rolling, but we do have a vibrant group in DFW with lots of things happening in North Texas, including Abilene and Plano. There are also new groups growing up in Norman, OK; Lawton (FT. Sill), OK, and OKC as well as Bartlesville, OK. Finally, many talented instructors will be local to DFW at the 2006 WMAW event, to be held 13-15 of Oct this year: www.wmaw.us
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