Butterfly ZJK super ZLC

bbkon wrote: bard romance wrote: bbkon wrote: slevin wrote: Adding to the list of young users: Adriana Diaz (current US open women's champion) - ZJK Super ZLC You gotta highlight the players that like the blade not the ones that play with szlc cos they get paid for it Lmao, Butterfly doesn't force a blade on any of their sponsored players, they can choose whatever you want. I've seen you say this before though so it's pretty clear you're just an extreme case of one of those anti-Butterfly people. Not true i played with flarestorm2 pips and I had like 5 sheets and one primorac carbon, the local butterfly dealer agrees about that the most users playing with SZLC are sponsored unlike tbs and mizutani

Never mind, lost brain cells

Edited by bard romance - 12/21/2016 at 10:27am

fatt wrote: I remain convinced the high price of those 2 blades is only about justifying the increase in price of all other popular blades: the Amultart used to cost $140; same for the MJ; what is the justification of such a difference in price for those 2 blades between 2009 and now? The idea of having the MJ SZLC and a ZJK SZLC was marketing mastery

I cant imagine the materials cost much more now.

VTC: I think that the main argument presented here is that the 2 SZLC blades were simply massively overpriced from the start (which I agree with).

I think Jiang tianyi was using it.
Now using ebenholz.
Also maybe Feng tianwri used it.
Now with viscaria.

I know a guy who uses it.
He's ok, like 2300 US.
I dont think its such a bad investment.
A blade can last for your whole life.
He bought it maybe 3 years ago?
It's 100$ a year, for something you do many days a week.

The problem is for ejs who buy many blades, use them once and throw them in the closet.

Edited by notgooord - 12/23/2016 at 11:40am

bard romance wrote: Never mind, lost brain cells

bbkon wrote: SmackDAT wrote: bard romance wrote: Never mind, lost brain cells LOL post of the year Headline news "Bty fanboi shots to death user who bashed a butterfly blade"

You're right man some doctor didn't like szlc therefore butterfly forces their players to use szlc. You right man. Guess I was lied to by my butterfly sponsored friends over the years.

NextLevel wrote: bard romance, I hope you read my earlier post on this issue, it is not worth it.  There are times I have made posts about something and had an extremely weird comment from bbkon out of now where addressing something else and quoting me as if I said what he was addressing. Unless you get some value out of this, don't do it.

bard romance wrote: bbkon wrote: SmackDAT wrote: bard romance wrote: Never mind, lost brain cells LOL post of the year Headline news "Bty fanboi shots to death user who bashed a butterfly blade" You're right man some doctor didn't like szlc therefore butterfly forces their players to use szlc. You right man. Guess I was lied to by my butterfly sponsored friends over the years.

I never said butterfly should force you to buy the szlc and Not praising slzc blades its a sin for you..cheers for your top20 friends

wow. looks like blades with zylon much more popular then with arilat ...

piligrim wrote: wow. looks like blades with zylon much more popular then with arilat ...

Among a subset of North American kids.  (Mo Zhang is not a kid though).

sunny wrote: SmackDAT wrote: bard romance wrote: Never mind, lost brain cells LOL post of the year I bought my JM SZLC from TTJapan especially they are one of the rare ones who sell straight handle but now they don't offer anything in Butterfly to other countries. Can't see Butterfly on their website. Butterfly turned them too to only sell in local market.

Butterfly is doing everything within its power to alleviate...[cough]facilitate[/cough] your brand withdrawal symptom, as well as "looking after" fellow brands.

Edited by zeio - 01/11/2017 at 2:31pm

I for one am delighted to see many very nice ALC blades from Donic, Tibhar and Yasaka, among others.  I can personally vouch for the True Carbon.  And since it is nice, to hell with Btfly.

By the way, one thing about blade choices with cadets and juniors is that it will be interesting to see what they might be using a bit later on, when they are bigger and stronger.  Will they stick with the same thing because they are comfortable with it?  Or maybe will they go with something different?  (Of course, since we are talking about North American juniors, we may never find out because in a lot of cases these kids will stop playing at 18 to focus on their studies at elite American universities.  This is not an altogether bad thing.)

slevin wrote: Added back Filip. Girls: Adriana Diaz: ZJK-SZLC Crystal Wang: ZJK-SZLC (prior, she used ZJK-ZLC. Prior to that, she used MJ-ZLC) Anqi Luo: ZJK-SZLC Jianqi Zheng: Amultart ZLC Yadira Silva: IF-ZLC Rachel Sung: MJ-ZLC Mo Zhang: ZJK-SZLC Boys: Jack Wang: TB-ZLC Nikhil Kumar: ZJK-ZLC Victor Liu: ZJK-SZLC Brian Afanador: IF-ZLC Daniel Gonzalez: IF-ZLC Alexander BU: IF-ZLC Filip Ilijevski: MJ-ZLC

It ain't a coincidence these young padawan Butterfly-sponsored players are using ZLC or SZLC lightsabers.

Questions to ponder:
1) did these players ask to use these high-end ZLC/SZLC blades?
2) did Butterfly nudge these young players to try using these expensive blades in order to help market them in the Pan-Am region ?
3) did the parents of these young players encourage them to use the most expensive Butterfly blades ?
4) did the coaches of these young players suggest they use ZLC/SZLC blades to fast track their development ?
5) does Butterfly hope to a star player emerges out of the forest ?

Just askin,............