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It's 80% of what I play nowadays.
Its virtues are legion: Works just as well nogi/mma, ties in perfectly with wrestling/half guard, greatly improves your escapes, fills in a lot of the gaps of the guard game, forces you to become proficient at hand/grip fighting, requires little to no flexibility, puts very little strain on your body (knees and back will thank you), is superb versus larger opponents, very difficult to leglock you, will help you achieve the elusive "flow," will force you to work your top game because you'll end up on top a lot.
With all that said, my favorite guard is still cross guard -- it has the most offensive firepower of any guard, IMHO. But for a long time, I've just been focusing on butterfly. I plan to return to focus on cross guard in a year or so.
One thing about learning butterfly btw ... you can't just learn a couple moves. You have to really devote yourself to butterfly for a substantial period to begin to make it work.
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