RPB: blades and rubbers

I am currently a single sided cpen looper thinking of adding rpb loop to my repertoire.  tried friend's stiga offensive cr with skyline tg2 fh and skyline tg3 bh, liked the rubbers, especially how i can change between spin loops and speed loops with ease on my fh with the tg2; since it was my first time trying rpb, of course i sucked at it during a game, but for practice, i was able to bh drive with relative ease as well as controlling the placement of the drives, and can change between regular straighter drives and the side spin drives.  I liked the feel of the blade how it had little vibrations but it was way too slow, a lot of my blocks went into the net.  The biggest problem I had with that set up was the heavy torque due to the hollow handle of the blade (i think it's hollow...).
I am considering a Yasaka Extra with tg2 fh and something with the characteristics of the tg3 but lighter bh in the near future, then ultimately move onto Yasaka Ma Lin Carbon blade.  What setup do you use?  and any comments about the equipments i'm considering?  (i like high throw tacky rubbers)

i hear that friendship's higher 3 would be a good choice for an RPB rubber.

thanks for all your suggestions.  i'll get a chance to try my friend's YE later, if it's slower than the OC like kei pointed out i definitely won't waste any money on that then.  the Ma Lin carbon is what i hope to end up playing with when i reach that level and can handle that blade so that won't be for awhile.  i'm thinking about one of the dhs hurricane blades, but whenever i do search about that too many rubbers turn up.  what do y'all think about those blades?

I use H3 on forehand (poured glue of course), and japanese rubber on the back hand.  I think for rpb, any medium to medium fast blades work well for learning the stroke.  I recommend Stiga EG, YE, OC, Malin C, Avx 555, Avx 500, YO, Korbel.  As far as rubber goes for the backhand, Mark V, Sriver EL, Sriver L, Hammond, Ekrips, Inspirit, 729 Cream are all going to work just fine.

I'm pretty sure Ma Lin uses Sriver EL for RPB. (Depressing.)

hmmm... maybe my friend's tg2 sponge deteriorated and became harder, because i was able to produce high arc spin loops and low arc speed loops at will...  i think he got that rubber in china, so that could also be the difference...

Sounds good, do let us know how the setup plays.

hmmm, does the commercial Ma Lin Carbon blade has the white outer ply of wood? on the pictures, seem like the blade has the dark outer ply.
yeah yeah, commercial, commercial.

well, it doesnt seem like the sweat's on the blade to me, cuz if so, u can easily recognize the kinda finger-shaped on the spot where he keeps his fingers on, not consistently dark all the way.
anyway, I might be wrong though.