Holbrook Pickleball Pro Paddles: The Ultimate Review

hello everyone I hold in my hands a new player in the game Holbrook pickleball paddles I think these pedals are great stay tuned if you want to find out why so let's talk about the MAV Pro and the MAV Pro e paddles from Holbrook I'm going to start with the MAV Pro this paddle here I was actually very impressed with this pedal let's get into the specs the core on this is a dual reactive polypropylene Honeycomb Core it's got a force field t700 woven 3K carbon fiber face it's got white stitched ridged performance grip it's 16.5 inches by 7.5 inches wide it comes in to weight about 7.8 to 8 ounces and the hand grip length is 5.5 inches so it's good for the two-handed backhand and 4.25 inch grip circumference they come in a 13 millimeter and a 16 millimeter this I have here is the 16 millimeter so let's talk about the specifics of this paddle I really like the way this paddle plays it's got a woven carbon fiber face so I'll show you a picture of this here so just like most of the others but this one has a little bit bigger carbon fiber weave some of the other ones the of its competitors do a tighter weave this one actually has a little bit bigger weave pattern and so I was a little skeptical at first to see how it would respond but I gotta tell you I think that this paddle performs just as good or better than some of its competitors I love the way this pedal grabs the ball I'm able to shape the shots a lot better than I thought I would picking up this paddle for the first time because it's a 16 millimeter grip it is 4.25 inch but it is a little bit blocky so for those that have smaller hands you might want to go with a 13 millimeter paddle and the 13 millimeter paddle I've hit that as well I don't have it with me but it also still performs very well because what I think they've done really well with this paddle is they have a very solid core so when you're hitting with this paddle and anywhere you hit it on the face it doesn't feel like there's a dead spot it doesn't feel like you're losing anything it really feels like it's got a very large sweet spot I found myself being able to block from anywhere being able to reset from anywhere and even if I wasn't hitting in the flush part of the paddle I felt like I wasn't losing performance on this paddle I really like the defense in the kitchen line I like my attacks from the kitchen line because I could hit it anywhere on this face and the ball would still go where I was intending it to so I really felt like when I played with this paddle I started getting confidence really quickly so a lot of times when I pick up a paddle it might take a little bit to get used to I found that I could immediately be able to hit this paddle and be able to do what I wanted with it without much learning curve now I play a lot of control paddles so this is still a control paddle but what I liked about it is this still had a lot of Pop I felt that my drives I felt like I could get something on my drives I felt like my attacks from the kitchen line or my my counter punches from the kitchen line had a little bit more pep on it than I'm used to so it took a little bit of getting used to for me but I found that as a for a control paddle This paddle here had a lot of Pop to it that I found that I enjoyed and those for the two-handed backhand because it's a 5.5 inch handle you can get a comfortable two-handed backhand with this I really felt like I was very comfortable with my third shot drops my third shot resets even when when I was getting attacked in no man's land my resets were good in the kitchen I I really felt the control of this paddle I felt like I could put the ball anywhere I wanted when I was dinking with it and in doing anything in the kitchen that I wanted and because of the head shape on this one I felt like I was able to get over the ball and able to get some topspin on it and attack the way I wanted to get some topspin on the ball I used to not play with topspin but I am really boiled with all these carbon fiber paddles I really enjoy it it is going to be in my regular rotation in my bag with my eight other paddles that I like playing this one's going to make the rotation okay so let's talk about the MAV Pro E Series now this is more traditionally shaped like the Invictus of the world the electrum ease of the world so it has a longer face and it has a shorter handle so let's get into the specs let me read this for you it's also got the t700 woven 3K carbon face but you can tell that this has a much tighter pattern as you can look here in the microscopic view much much tighter pattern of the carbon here it is still 16.5 inches high 7.5 inches wide it comes in a weight from 7.8 to 8 ounces it only has a 4.75 inch grip and still has the 4.25 inch grip circumference now this one has a little bit more beveled pronouncement so it's they call it a specialized comfort grip but you can tell by playing this it has a little bit more pronounced bevels so if you really like to feel the bevels this one has a little bit more bevel shape because the grip is a little bit shorter two backhands are less comfortable with this but you can still do a two-handed backhand with it it is still very doable with this let me just show you the difference of these together so you can see that the handle length is a little bit you know shorter and then you can see the face how the face extends so the same size paddle same length paddle but you can see how the it gives you a little bit more defensive face to hit with if you're hitting it down here you're in trouble already but this gives you a little bit more to work with um this this grip feels a little bit more blocky to me but that's I think because of the bevels but I like the way that these grips feel I felt like you could change grips with it you can go from Eastern to Continental to Western really easily with this you can feel it I really like the core of these paddles I found that they were not they were reactive but I felt like I didn't have a lot of dead spots on it so once again hitting out here on the end on these paddles they're a little bit less powerful out here when you're hitting outside of The Sweet Spot and obviously down here by the handle you're not going to get as good a reaction out of these these paddles when you're hitting outside of the sweet spot but I found that I could do anything I wanted with these paddles I felt like my control shots were there these are definitely control based paddles so this has less pop than the the MAV Pro Series and it is a little bit less control on any of these longer paddles you're going to have a little bit less control but better defense with it so you got a little bit more surface space to work with so you're going to find that your resets your third shot drops all of these shots are great with these paddles I also felt like I could still get spin with this a little bit less spin it felt to me than the Holbrook MAV Pro I felt like I could get a little bit less Spin and that's probably because of the tighter weave you it doesn't feel as gritty as the carbon weave on the MAV Pro but I still felt like I could shape the ball really well third shot drops third shot drives still phenomenal with this paddle so I think that this pedal is a really good control model this is another one that I'm going to start playing regularly I really find that I could just pick this paddle up and start playing with it and I didn't have any kind of learning curve so that's all I got for these MAV Pro like if you look in the description below you can get our discount code that'll give you 10 off of these paddles these paddles retail for 180 with our discount you get the 10 off you can get a good discount there but I think these pedals are right online with all the other ones in the market I think they have a great warranty on it they have a 30-day return policy so I feel like they back their products and I believe they have a six month warranty I like everything they're doing with this paddle but you know what if this is not the paddle for you check these out yeah you can you can click on these These are good too they're good paddles you can click it it's not gonna hurt you go ahead click it