Rewording in a quick manner that the other similar threads have been successful with.
An all wood blade is great for learning because of the vibration. The vibration gives you direct feedback to whether or not you're doing a stroke correctly.
You'll be rewarded with a good feeling when you perform stroke and go through the ball correctly, while being punished with a bad feeling if you didn't go through it very well. Even if you get the ball on the table and keep it low, you'll be punished for not treating the ball correctly. Using positive and negative reinforcement to teach te player.
The harder the sponge of the rubber, the less feeling you'll get from a blade, it's like trying to numb the vibration that would punish you.
Even just using a thinner sponge will help you more in the long run, if you feel that your skill is good enough with its form and footwork go ahead and thicken your sponge or use a harder rubber, but judging from your difficulty to play the short game with tenergy, I doubt you're at that level.
Finally, vibration does one more great thing for learning players. If a player like NextLevel were to loop at you with a golfball of spin, you'd close your racket anticipating the heavy spin and try to go through the ball. But alas, you misjudged exactly how much you needed to close against this crazy amount of topspin. Rather than guess and checking the vibration will tell you exactly how to do your stroke differently. That's what makes a blade great, once you and your blade are one, you understand everything it tries to tell you.
So what should you do? Play a soft rubber and don't change your equipment much. You'll get used to the setup and you'll tell yourself that you can deal with more speed, but more speed is just making the long run more difficult.
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