Ohh, the best 10 dollars you can spend is on training gear, I figure you would probably realise this, but without them you'll roll your copter every 4 seconds when you first start. I would stick with wooden blades, performance is better, and if you're carefull you won't spend that much on blades anyways. I started in october, and have gone from complete newbie, to a point where I can now do most stadard flight, I'm still shaky nose in, but forward flight is a cinche, and in that time I've only gone through 3 sets of blades. My motto was, stay low, and if you get within 3 feet of something, put it down, simple. Following those rules, with training gear, it's really hard to break much of anything, and flight after flight, you'll get better. That's my advice anyways.