Hi Sam,You are facing an issue that every place faces early in their evolution: The enticement of other equipment and what to settle on... and what to stick with or should someone stick with something.The more experienced players and coaches will say pretty much the same thing in a different way. What they all pretty much say is to get equipment that will make it easy enough to learn the fundamentals... and STICK WITH IT until the fundamentals grow to a point (and the player figures out their impact and play preferences) and re-baseline at that point... maybe a couple re-baselines as growth happens.I saw someone say to stick with H3. If you are getting professional help, particularly on how to develop a foundational FH with a huge bat speed and a huge power transfer, then YES, a very excellent suggestion. If you are to develop into an allround control style of play... H3 is surprisingly appropriate for controlling an incoming ball if you use a stroke (and know how to adjust grip pressure).When I moved to California several years ago, I was already cracking into the top ten percent of players... but I wasn't (nor am I now) fully developed as a player. TTD member erm, who is the world's largest EJ and a former national youth player, had me try a gazillion equipments to see what was more suitable for my kind of stroke, impact, and play style. It turned out for my FH, softer rubbers worked better for me. I was more consistent. I continued to play vs and with erm and a few better players, of course I got better gradually.So, for a year or so, I used softer rubbers on FH and did well, improving tourney results. When MX-K rubber came out, I slapped MX-K 47 on FH... that was for oh, say 1.5 years... I adjusted to that rubber and now maybe a medium rubber was my center of mass. I again improve my tourney results to mid 2000s rating. When Etika came out 5-6 months ago, I started using 51 degree sponge on FH... now after that, I can now control the depth of impact on a firm rubber. I broke out a Nate custom blade I didn't use in a year (some alsaka wood outer blade) that had MX-K 47 on it... Now when I strike the ball with that blade and 47 MX-K, it sounds like I speed glued that sucker !!THAT (progressively moving up in sponge firmness when ready) is what got my current FH impact. It is a LOT better than 2-3 years ago when I really started to move up in level.There is no single correct answer in TT, but the experienced players and coaches have seen a lot and can tell you ways that will work. More than one of them will do it.