This may be Butterfly's biggest lame duck ever. At over $200, there is nothing remotely special about this blade, other than the fact that I pulled off splinters the first time I took off a rubber -- this never happened with the other dozen Butterfly blades I've owned.

Blade has so much vibration. The vibration is crazy. It's very flexible. It's also very slow. It's not easy to attack. Also, the handle is smaller than other Butterfly blades.

This is an extremely overpriced classic defense blade.. The ZLF fibers do nothing to help with vibration, sweet spot, or power. Epic fail by Butterfly.

A top quality Japanese make blade. Top quality wood and other materials are used in the manufacture of this blade. Very very difficult to match rubbers for this blade. Well known Butterfly and TSP long pimpled rubbers (except may be TSP Curl P3 R alpha OX) do not seem to match this blade. This is a bit disappointing. Unable to fix up a FH spinny rubbers for this blade. Particularly a rubber that suits a defensive player. A strange blade. While it plays like a fast blade with some rubbers it behaves like a slow blade with some rubbers. Speed equal to M Pro . Slower than M Pro Special and JSH blades. Resembles old Grubba Pro All in speed and some of the playing charecterstics. An expensive piece. Good luck.