Should I try chopping

Thanks for the hasty reply and advice! I plan to chop with inverted rubber on both sides. I do have a few questions though. Should the rubber have a thick or thin sponge? Should the rubber be soft or hard? Lastly, do you have any recommendations? 

Jack,this is how Ding Song has emerged: he has been a classic Chinese attacker.
Then he was asked to imitate style of Koji Matsushita for the Chinese A team to train against. He had difficulty to come back from longpips though,thus he switched to short pimple rubber and became an A team defender.

Chopping rubber should generally have thinner sponge,but it also greatly depends on your blade.
May we know your setup?

Hello DK. I'm currently using Galaxy Uranus U-3(OFF) with Rakza 7(BH) and Hurricane 3-50(FH).

Hmph,this is completely unknown setup to me,since Galaxy and DHS equipment is not easily available at my place.
Hurricanes are said to be rather hard rubbers,but I know nothing about their thickness range. Rakzas are made with several hardnesses and thicknesses and I have played with them for about 5years.
However,I know nothing about the blade. I am not even able to find whether it is carbon blade,balsa blade or normal allwood blade.

Generally though,choppin rubbers are mostly thinner,due to the fact that for chopping,you do not need the catapult effects,you do not need the ball to "bottom out" the rubber,because chopping is about taming and absorbing the incoming power,which is in contrast with effect of catapult.
Long pimples,defensive short pimples such as TSP SpinPips Chop,or even defensive inverted rubbers such as TSP triplespin,Butterfly Tackiness line,Stiga ChopDrive or Donic Slice,all these rubbers have one thing in common: they are generally softer and they do have a thinner sponge (<=1.8mm)

Regarding the muscle memory...well....of course there can be some effect. But also,it can enable you to become a fully adaptable player.
Depends on how universal you are as a person. Some world class players are also majorly attackers,but can switch to very consistent chopping if they need to.
It is rarely seen though,when an attacker does more than one chop in a row. I personally have seen I think Ma Lin using two consecutive chops,then I have seen Koki Niwa from Japan using chopping, also Werner Schlager has shown some serious chopping skills...
Another example could be the recent Junior Champion of Europe,Truls Moregard from Sweden,who uses a backhand chop....I would not say frequently,but at least more frequently than other same level attackers. I think you can see about one or two chops in each of his matches at least as far as I have seen...
Also,I should mention Petr Korbel,a technival offender of my country and the head of my club. He is no longer active at the world level,but I would say he would be still competitive among the TOP200 of th world,maybe even TOP100 (considering that I know some of the best world ranked players of my country and Korbel still devastates them).
Petr Korbel has shown to me that despite being technical attacker,he is still very adept and proved to me that he is able to switch from his usual setup to long pimple defensive bat without affecting his overall performance level too much.

So my personal opinion on this is: depends on how technical you are. People who rely on the brute power and luck,may have more trouble with this. Or people who play tensed. The more you are able to play without tension and to play varying strokes,the more adept you should be to such a switch,the less should your muscle memory be affected.
But this is a theory based on my experience with my own body and watching professional players. You have a different body than me,because every player is different :D and neither me nor you are professional players.
Your reality could easily be absolutely different from all my calculations.
So I would say TRY IT.

Hi DK. Thanks for the comprehensive reply! I'll be sure to check out your suggestions :)

As a side note, the blade I'm using is all wood. 

Always willing to help if I have the abilities needed :)
Here,I am not really powerful nor experienced player. But I am a chopper and and I like talking about table tennis and also analyzing :)