Carl, if he was posting from Korea, I would have told him to go with a heavy Schlager Carbon. Beginning Koreans can hit FH drive after Fh drive with that heavy hitting setup, but not much else. Heck, that is just about all the coach asks for the newer players to do anyway at that stage and there are few things finer for flat drives than a Schlager Carbon and a modern control rubber.
I don't like paying a lot of money for setups unless I will be with it a long time, so I loved TBS and now the Nexy composites (straight OFF speed thank you, no OFF++ for me) A rubber like G3 deserves a heavish, solid, controllable wood blade that is not OFF+ for a flexible OFF attacking game. A gazillion blades fit the bill and when you start out, why pay a ton, unless you like to use it a bit then chuck it into your collection display?
I disagree with pundits all the time, but agree with a lot of their core thinking though.