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I am a huge fan of using the same rubber on both sides for a variety of reasons, the main one being that you can transfer aspects of your understanding of technique easily across both strokes, but if you are sure that you want to play high level offense with power as your focus, honestly with the plastic ball, get a rubber that is hybrid sticky on the foeehand and one that is either hybrid sticky or Tenergy/Dignics powerful on the backhand. Dignics 09c is a starting point but there are lots of reasonable alternatives. My problem with MK was that it didnt respond to extra power in a way that felt rewarding but it might be a decent starting point though I might prefer something like Fastarc C1 or G1 for a non-sticky looping rubber.
On the blade side, if you already have a Butterfly blade in the Viscaria range or you like this Chase blade, then just use that. But whatever you use, your goal should be to ramp up the stability/spin first and foremost and then the power when in position with rapid recovery. What I mean is that you need to be able to loop to block 50 times at some speed even in a footwork drill, it doesn't have to be fast but you have to feel that you have a speed that you don't miss at, and then raise the quality of that speed with extra spin and power over time while not losing the stability. Anyone going for maximum power should lose stability and you should only do this in a particular drill where maybe you have a really good blocker and you are challenging your max recovery or max power. It is very important to show no fear of the ball coming back in table tennis.
Backhand topspin is a technical shot, usually someone who doesnt feel comfortable with it hasn't figured our how to integrate the backhand backswing with his forehand finishing position. But since you are a coach Hoang fan, watch his video on basic backhand and the need for wrist flexion in the backhand and take it seriously and figure our how to play your backhand from that position and what your forehand needs to support that. Because I usually see that people with your problem just haven't figured our how to transition between both forehand and backhand comfortably but once you figure it out, you will be topsponning on both sides without hesitation.
