are butterfly blades worth your money?

I'm entirely convinced a player 500 points above me in rating will beat me regardless of which brand of equipment he's using (assuming it's similar - long pips or double inverted or w/e)

Butterfly equipment is the best, but I'd say TT skill is 99% training 1% equipment.

I am just asking if bty blades are worth your money I am not asking for a good bty blade.

No.

havent used many of them but for the ones that ive tried yes its worth it

Korbel, Primorac and Grubba are worth every penny.

GeneralSpecific wrote: Yes. Butterfly in my opinion has the best blades.

shaolinTT wrote: No. Not for a CPen player.

Yoshida Kaii would disagree with you.

bbkon wrote: Carbon TT wrote: GeneralSpecific wrote: Yes. Butterfly in my opinion has the best blades.   +1, I think a lot of them are, although a few of them are over priced for what you get. only 7%  worth the money, the rest is garbage

Some are worth, some are not. Lately, due to outrageous price raise, a lot went to the wrong part of the list...

jcdi wrote: Some are worth, some are not. Lately, due to outrageous price raise, a lot went to the wrong part of the list...

Agreed and I'd say most of them are.

If the blade 'fits' your playing style, you really can't put a price on that.

But my overall experience is a definite YES !!

Edited by jt99sf - 04/23/2011 at 10:40pm

moved to equipment forum...

ninglei23 wrote:

only a few of them... 

can I ask why you are not recommending iolite?(because no one is saying iolite in this thread)

BMonkey wrote: All blades are worth the money. People around here seem to think that everyone should be able to afford every blade *cough*socialists*cough* and that anything that's not "reasonably priced" is a ridiculous piece of junk. That's like saying we should all be able to afford the best cars or the best wines or the best homes. Ridiculous. If you can't afford to buy the blade then don't buy it, go play with another one. But coming onto the forum and childishly complaining about the equipment because the price point doesn't match up with your station in life... it accomplishes nothing of value to your fellow forum members.

I think anyone who's reasonable would agree on a normative statement which somewhat counters your view:  If there is one blade which is statistically superior to all others, thus granting a person who is wielding it a demonstrably better chance of beating their opponent, then all players should have equal access to it.

Now as it happens there's no empirical data on any particular blade being that much better - and the highest priced ones are actually not used by professionals which may actually be considered a counter to that in itself.

Your argument against socialism is specious though.  Every single Western country in the world is a hybrid of capitalism and socialism.  And the vast majority of people living in each of those countries supports and enjoys those aspects of socialism which suit their lives.  Police departments, militaries, fire departments, public schools, post offices, public libraries, social security, medicare, medicaid, national parks - I could go on but I assume my point is made - are all socialist programs.  A country without any of those in case you're interested in seeing what it looks like and wish to move there would be Somalia.