"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. And from this side only! The flight of a half-man, half-bird. Dinosaurs nuzzling their young in pastures where strip malls should be. Cookies on dowels. All those moment, lost in time. Gone, like eggs off a hooker's stomach. Time to die" -Phil Ken Sebben
They don't actually look awesome and they don't even really look like fencing shoes. The heel is the opposite of rolled, the sole looks like low grade cleats, unless they aren't as textured as they look. And you can't really tell from the picture if the instep is reinforced or not.
Not good for fencing, I don't think.
"Their interpretation is, however, refuted most elegantly by your system of radioactive atom + amplifier + charge of gun powder + cat in a box"
-Albert Einstein, in a letter to Erwin Schrödinger