![]() I was a student of Ralph Faulkner, former Olympian (19) and revered movie fencing master. Teamed with his brother Nedo, they were Italy’s brick wall in International fencing. He was initially a student of the legendary and idiosyncratic Aldo Nadi, one of the great competitors of the early 20th century. Today, thanks to Maestro Gaugler’s dedication and resolve, there is a thriving community of fencers and able masters trained in the traditional Italian method populating the American fencing scene.īill and I came together as friends in a roundabout way. ![]() When I came to fencing in the 1970s, fencers of the Italian persuasion were few and far between. He may well have been responsible for saving the Italian style of fencing from extinction in this country. Moreover, his academy was the only one to have close ties to Europe, through the National Academy of Fencing in Naples, Italy. ![]() ![]() As a fencing master, Bill was the leading exponent of the Italian school of fencing in the United States, and the founder of the first fencing master program based in the United States to deal with classical Italian fencing. During his lifetime, he was an esteemed professor of archaeology, specializing in Etruscan history and architecture, a noted fencing master, and the author of a number of respected books, both on fencing and archaeology. ![]()
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