Enhance Turbo Review: EPP vs MPP, shapes, real court feel

If you’ve ever lost a hands battle and thought, “My paddle just didn’t show up,” this is where the Enhance Turbo lineup gets simple, in a good way. You only make one real decision up front: what you want the core to feel like when the ball hits the face. Not on your best swing in warmups. I’m talking about that scramble rally where your feet are late, your brain is buffering, and your hands are operating on pure survival. Start there: EPP if you want a more planted, steady, control-first response, or MPP if you want something more lively with extra pop when you lean into it. Then it’s just shape, the part that decides whether you stay on time when exchanges get ugly. EPP comes in Widebody, Long Handle Hybrid, and Elongated. MPP is Elongated only.

Turbo Decision ladder

Core feel -> Shape -> The miss you are most likely to see first.

Quick pick if you are about to buy: Choose EPP if you want a firmer, more connected feel with three shapes. Choose MPP if you want the deeper, springier hollow character in elongated only.

First miss snapshot: In my session, EPP missed first when I tried to guide touch and the ball floated or sat up. MPP missed first when I got late in hands exchanges and the ball carried long or popped up.

Enhance Turbo Release Date: March 1 at 9 AM PST

Price below reflects the discount code.

• Price: $119.99 MSRP. $99.99 with code.
• Best for: players who want hollow, lively foam-core feedback and shape options to match their timing.
• Not for: players chasing a muted, dense, pillow soft feel.
• Lineup: EPP Turbo (Widebody, Long Handle Hybrid, Elongated). MPP Turbo (Elongated).

Availability changes. Check the product page for current ship dates.

This Enhance Turbo review reflects a 3 hour outdoor drill and play session with the Franklin X-40 across the Turbo lineup. Same ball, same conditions, rotating shapes to spot the first failure mode under rush, mainly when the springier feel turned a late block into a pop up or sent a counter long.

Signature Turbo Test

Block ten body speedups. If most misses run long, your face is arriving late and open. If most misses sit up, you are guiding the face instead of meeting the ball clean.

Here is the quickest reveal for Turbo: A windy outdoor doubles set where you are living off blocks, counters, and one clean drive per rally, and you need your face to talk back when contact gets rushed. Which Turbo actually fits you?

Turbo is loud and hollow by design, so the real question is simple: does that cue help your timing in fast exchanges, or does it make you steer the face. If loud, hollow contact makes you tighten up, you will feel it in the first game.

Coaching Insight: Hollow and lively means honest. Get late with an open face and Turbo will tell on you fast, usually long or pop up.

• Buy if: you like a lively, hollow hit that gives audible feedback and quick pop in hands exchanges.
• Skip if: your favorite paddles feel muted and dense, and you want contact to sound and feel quiet.

Choose this version: pick EPP Turbo if you want a firmer, more connected feel with three shapes. Pick MPP Turbo Elongated if you want the deeper, thonky hollow character in an elongated build, and a springier feel in my session when rallies sped up.

One predictability check: When you get jammed in transition, elongated misses show up faster, usually a pop up or a ball that runs long.

Which Turbo should a two handed backhand player start with?
Start with the EPP Turbo Long Handle Hybrid for the extra handle length and a shape that keeps hands timing comfortable without giving up reach.

Who This Helps

If your points get decided in the messy part of the rally, blocks, counters, and transition defense, this lineup will show you the truth fast. The hollow feedback is either a timing helper or a deal breaker.

• You want a foam-core paddle that is tuned to feel hollow and lively, not muted.
• You care about stability on off-center contact and you want shape options to match your style.
• You like crisp feedback on blocks, counters, and kitchen work, and you do not want the face to feel mushy.
• You want an affordable entry into an MPP style hollow sound and feel, and you are comfortable learning timing.
• If your misses tend to carry long when you get rushed, start with the widebody shape before you blame the core feel.

If you slap at chest-high speedups with a wide open face, the livelier rebound in this lineup can send the ball long.

Enhance Turbo Paddles at a Glance

If you are about to check out, this table gets you to the right core and shape quickly. Pick EPP versus MPP for feel first, then pick your shape for timing and forgiveness when the rally gets fast.

If you like a quiet, muted paddle, the hollow sound and feel here can be a deal breaker before the first game ends.

Specs + What Varies

The build stays consistent. What changes your day is core feel, then what your shape forgives when your hands get rushed.

Useful Definitions

• Floating foam core: EPP or MPP foam in the center with an EVA foam ring around the perimeter.
• EPP: A foam core option in the Turbo line that is firmer and more connected in feel.
• MPP: A foam core option in the Turbo line that is softer in feel with a deeper, hollow sound and trampoline-like energy return.
• CFC layup: A carbon fiber, fiberglass, carbon fiber face stack used on the Turbo line.
• Internal perimeter weighting: Weighting along the sides that Enhance describes as intended to increase twist resistance and stability on off-center contact.

If you buy purely off a foam-core label, you can end up with a feel profile that you hate even if the numbers look perfect.

Specs You Are Looking For

If you shop with a spec checklist, use this to confirm your shape choice (widebody versus hybrid versus elongated) after you’ve skimmed the table above. Then let feel decide EPP versus MPP.

Enhance EPP Turbo Elongated (16 mm)

• Weight: 7.8 to 8.0 oz
• Swing weight: 116 to 120
• Twist weight: 6.25+
• Handle length: 5.7 inches
• Grip circumference: 4.1 inches
• Length: 16.5 inches
• Width: 7.5 inches
• Core thickness: 16 mm
• Core material: EPP foam center with EVA perimeter ring
• Face: CFC layup with raw T700 carbon fiber grit
• Thermoformed: Yes

Enhance EPP Turbo Long Handle Hybrid (16 mm)

• Weight: 7.8 to 8.0 oz
• Swing weight: 110 to 114
• Twist weight: 6.6+
• Handle length: 5.9 inches
• Grip circumference: 4.1 inches
• Length: 16.25 inches
• Width: 7.75 inches
• Core thickness: 16 mm
• Core material: EPP foam center with EVA perimeter ring
• Face: CFC layup with raw T700 carbon fiber grit
• Thermoformed: Yes

Enhance EPP Turbo Widebody (16 mm)

• Weight: 7.8 to 8.0 oz
• Swing weight: 108 to 112
• Twist weight: 7.0+
• Handle length: 5.5 inches
• Grip circumference: 4.1 inches
• Length: 16 inches
• Width: 8 inches
• Core thickness: 16 mm
• Core material: EPP foam center with EVA perimeter ring
• Face: CFC layup with raw T700 carbon fiber grit
• Thermoformed: Yes

Enhance MPP Turbo Elongated (16 mm)

• Weight: 7.8 to 8.0 oz
• Swing weight: 116 to 120
• Twist weight: 6.4+
• Handle length: 5.7 inches
• Grip circumference: 4.1 inches
• Length: 16.5 inches
• Width: 7.5 inches
• Core thickness: 16 mm
• Core material: MPP foam center with EVA perimeter ring
• Face: CFC layup with raw T700 carbon fiber grit
• Thermoformed: Yes

If you buy an elongated shape expecting it to cover widebody defense for you, the first fast volley exchange can punish that assumption.

Turbo Lineup Field Guide

If you already know which core feel you want, use the sections below and jump straight to the shape that fits your hands timing when the rally gets fast.

If your game is built on rushed blocks and you buy elongated on impulse, the first miss can show up fast, usually a ball that sits up or a block that carries long.

What Actually Matters on Court

Turbo is simple under pressure. When rallies sped up in my session, the same mistake kept getting punished: late hands with an open face.

When you take a full cut at shoulder-height balls and your face stays open, the lively rebound tends to send the ball long.

Power vs Control

You get easy depth when you time it clean. When you get late, the same swing is more likely to carry long.

In a baseline drive exchange, the Turbo contact feels crisp and hollow at impact. The ball leaves with a quick jump off the face. Catch it out in front and it comes off flatter and heavier. Get late and it rides long.

If loud hollow contact makes you steer the face, your first miss is usually a block that sits up or a ball that runs long.

Hands Battles

In hands battles, Turbo gives loud, fast feedback on quick contact. If that sound cue calms you down, you will like it. If it makes you rush, you will feel it right away.

Meet a speedup early and the counter tracks cleaner. Arrive late with an open face and the counter is more likely to carry long.

When you are late in hands exchanges, MPP felt springier in my session and misses showed up faster.

Soft Game Reality

You will notice the core split here fast. On dinks and short drops in my session, EPP is where the touch felt more connected than mushy, and repeatability on resets felt easier. MPP still played fine, but the springier feel showed up faster when contact got rushed. When I tried to guide touch, float showed up and the ball sat up.

When you guide a reset, the ball tends to float and sit up. But, when you meet it clean, it stays lower and more annoying.

Sweet Spot, Forgiveness, Stability

Here is what you are really buying with shape: how your misses behave when contact is not perfect. In my session, stretched blocks and late contact felt steadier than I expected, and the ball left on a cleaner line than rushed touch usually gives you.

When the incoming ball finds the outside third, the return tended to stay playable instead of spraying in my session.

If your favorite win is the ugly reset, start with the shape that protects you when you block late.

Spin, Grit, Shot Shaping

The entire lineup is listed with raw T700 carbon fiber grit. In my session, cleaner brush contact produced clearer shape, and sloppy brush contact showed more float.

When the brush and the drive move together, the ball skids through and stays uncomfortable for the defender.

EPP or MPP: The Checkout Decision

At checkout, you are choosing the feel profile that shows up in your blocks, counters, and rushed resets.

Choosing between EPP and MPP: EPP is firmer and more connected with a linear, readable response. MPP is deeper sounding with a more elastic, trampoline-like energy return.

What showed up fast in my session: EPP felt easier to repeat on resets. MPP felt springier when contact got rushed, especially in hands exchanges.

Checkout insurance: If your first miss is a rushed block that runs long, MPP will expose it faster. If your first miss is touch that floats when you guide it, start with EPP and let the shape do the forgiving.

EPP Turbo across the three shapes

In a dink and reset sequence, EPP contact feels crisp and connected. The ball leaves with a clean, repeatable release. What it buys you is a touch pattern that is easier to repeat when you are under pressure.

MPP Turbo Elongated

In a drive into counter rally, MPP contact feels hollow with a deeper thock at impact. The ball leaves with a springier rebound. The result is easy depth when you time it clean, and a ball that can spray when your face angle is loose.

If your hands timing is already inconsistent, the springier feel can turn fast exchanges into rushed blocks that sit up.

Shapes

Shapes do not feel interchangeable in this lineup. Each shape protects a different mistake, and each one exposes a different miss first.

Fast pick inside this section: Widebody for late hands and sprays. Long Handle Hybrid for two hands and getting jammed. Elongated for reach and leverage, with late contact showing up faster in transition.

EPP Turbo Widebody

Pick this when your timing breaks down late. In a scramble block at the kitchen, the widebody contact feels steady and confident, and the ball leaves on a more controlled line when you are stretched.

The first miss it helps reduce is the late block that sprays wide when you are reaching.

EPP Turbo Long Handle Hybrid

Pick this when you get jammed on two hands. In a two handed backhand counter exchange, the longer handle feels comfortable in the grip and the ball leaves with predictable direction when you keep the punch compact.

The first miss it helps reduce is getting jammed and dumping a rushed counter into the net.

Elongated shapes (EPP Turbo Elongated and MPP Turbo Elongated)

Pick this when reach and leverage matter most. In a baseline rally, elongated contact feels clean and solid when you catch the ball in front and the ball leaves with dependable depth.

The first miss shows up when you get jammed and contact drifts late, usually long or a pop up off a rushed block.

When a body speedup jams you in transition, late contact shows up faster in the elongated footprint and the ball tends to pop up or run long.

First Two Sessions Expectations

If you only test full swings first, you can miss what Turbo does best and worst under rush. The quickest tell is how your blocks and counters behave when contact is late.

• Expect the hollow feedback to be obvious right away, and use it as a timing cue in hands exchanges.
• On soft touch, keep your stroke compact until you learn how far the ball wants to carry on resets.
• If you picked MPP Turbo Elongated, pay attention to how your blocks come off when you are late, because that is where the springy feel shows up.

Run the Signature Turbo Test once each session until you know what your miss looks like: block ten body speedups and track whether your misses run long or sit up.

If you judge it only on full swings in session one, you can call it wild before you learn how your blocks and resets carry.

Tuning Notes

If your blocks are popping up or spraying, a small stability tune can help, but test it on your exact shape before you assume it fixes the whole lineup. If you add tape and your blocks start arriving late, that setup does not fit your timing on this shape.

• To stop blocks from popping up or spraying, start with a small side weight bump at 3 o’clock and 9 o’clock, then test before you add more.
• If you want more baseline finish, move weight slightly higher and re-test so you do not surprise your hands speed.
• If you care about hand speed and defense, keep added weight minimal and start with the EPP Turbo Widebody or EPP Turbo Long Handle Hybrid.
• When added weight slows your hands, you start blocking late and the ball sits up, so back the tape down before you change anything else.

Don’t stack weight quickly without testing in between, your hand timing can fall apart and make the paddle feel worse for your game.

Use tape like a test: If you add a small stability bump and the ball still runs long on late blocks, that is not a tape problem. It is a timing and feel mismatch with that specific core and shape.

Cross-Shopping Notes

If you are cross-shopping, use these as quick feel references, then come back and pick your Turbo core and shape.

• LUZZ Inferno sits in a similar hollow MPP feel lane. Pick this if you want a thonky elongated feel.
• Aerial Cyclone lives in a similar hollow-feedback lane. Pick this if you want the same loud contact cue in fast exchanges.
• SpeedUp Tide (Tide H or Tide 14H) lives in a springy, hollow lane. Pick this if you like elastic rebound.
• Vatic Pro V7, V-Sol Pro, and Vell Pro sit in a stiffer, hollow EPP lane. Pick this if you want connected feel more than trampoline.
• Ronbus Quanta R4 is in the same general EPP lane. Pick this if you play a reach-first doubles game.
• Bread and Butter Loco is also in the floating-core family. Pick this if you want hollow pop without the fiberglass zing of the Loco.

If you expect foam-core to mean muted and quiet, this hollow, lively feedback can feel wrong fast. That is your tell.

Pros and Cons (Real Play)

After drills and games, these were the parts that stayed consistent across the lineup in my session.

Pros

• Hollow, lively feedback that gives clear timing cues in fast exchanges.
• EPP Turbo offers three shapes that feel meaningfully different in hand and timing.
• Enhance describes internal perimeter weighting intended to help on off-center contact.
• The lineup is listed with raw T700 carbon grit for shot shaping on rolls, drives, and kitchen work.
• With the discount applied on this page, pricing keeps the lineup inside the $100 mark for foam-core curious buyers.

Cons

• The hollow sound and feel can be polarizing.
• MPP Turbo Elongated can reward disciplined face control, and punish loose hands in blocks.
• If you rely on a muted, dense touch feel, this design language may not match your preferences.
• Elongated shapes can feel different in transition defense than the widebody option.

If you try to guide touch shots with a soft wrist, the lively face can turn that touch into a float that sits up.

Who Should Buy / Who Should Skip + Quick Decision Snapshot

Pick the version that matches your point pattern, not the one that looks best on paper.

• Buy EPP Turbo if: you want a firmer, connected feel and you want to pick between widebody, long handle hybrid, and elongated shapes.
• Buy MPP Turbo Elongated if: you want the deeper, thonky hollow MPP character in an elongated build and you like lively rebound.
• Skip the Turbo line if: you want a muted, dense feel and you dislike loud, hollow feedback.
• Safer first pick for most players: EPP Turbo Widebody, especially if blocks and resets decide your matches.
• Two handed backhand friendly shape pick: EPP Turbo Long Handle Hybrid.
• Reach-first doubles pick: EPP Turbo Elongated.
• Hollow MPP feel seeker: MPP Turbo Elongated.

If your biggest struggle is controlling lively speed-ups, your first tell can be simple: late blocks sit up, and open faces run long.

Enhance Turbo Paddle FAQ

Fast answers to the questions that show up before checkout.

If tape changes your hand speed and your blocks start arriving late, back the tape down before you judge the core.

Enhance Turbo paddle review: Final Take + Next Step

The Enhance Turbo lineup makes sense when you want foam-core behavior with hollow feedback, then you pick the shape that matches your real point pattern.

A budget price is nice. A shape that fits your habits is what wins rallies.

Start by choosing the core feel. If you want a firmer, more connected response with three shape choices, go with the EPP Turbo. If you want the deeper, thonky hollow character in an elongated build, the MPP Turbo is the lineup feel-first swing.