Skewered Fencing

Augusto Román

Augusto Román was introduced to foil after taking a fencing class in undergrad at NMSU in Las Cruces, NM in 1996 while studying Electrical Engineering. The small, new club they started had a few ancient scoring boxes and he decided to try his hand at making a home-grown box.

The box was based on a motorola microcontroller at the time and only barely worked.

Augusto continued fencing through graduate school but ultimately life took precedence and stopped fencing until his daughter started learning sabre at a local club.

Drawn back into fencing and learning sabre (trying to overcome his bad foil habits but also exploiting slimy foil tricks when possible), Augusto again became interested in improving the available scoring boxes. After about a year of iterating on designs and continuous testing at the local fencing club, the Skewered Fencing Box is now extremely reliable and several boxes are in continuous use at nearby clubs, preferred over pre-existing third-party scoring machines.

Skewered Fencing

Augusto decided to start Skewered Fencing to focus on improving his fencing boxes, making them more widely available, and develop more sophisticated technology such as a video replay system and even wireless fencing. He leveraged his son's talents for the company logo and logo design.