[Innova] FD/Fairway Disc/Dark Rebel/Hawkeye

[ILUVSMGS18]

Entropy is a putter and Hawkeye is a fairway and the Hawkeye was first released 2022, so there are no 21 halos

Casey+SD=FF33?

 

[Alexplz]

Still loving the FD, still use it to emulate a beat up DX teebird.

The other day someone asked me what I threw, to which I replied "FD!" Old or new they asked - "OLD!!"

I haven't picked up a Dark Rebel or the like but it's good to know there are more runs out there in case my stack of FDs runs thin.

 

[ff33]

Entropy is a putter and Hawkeye is a fairway and the Hawkeye was first released 2022, so there are no 21 halos

i messed that all up. i meant neutron inertia and the first run of halo hawkeyes that didnt have the understamp. i might have had a few before writing this:doh:

 

[Papertrains]

G* Hawkeye is pretty dang understable wow. Flies like a [-2.5, 1] @ 173g.

 

[wolfhaley]

Pulled the trigger on a star Hawkeye. Came in today, penned 163. Pretty domey with the blizzardyish looking rim. Kinda slick feeling tbh, not like Z plastic by any means, but not the grippiest. Can't wait to toss it around. Unfortunately it looks like Siberia outside currently :\

 

[mostlynorwegian]

G* Hawkeye is pretty dang understable wow. Flies like a [-2.5, 1] @ 173g.

Those numbers pretty much mirror the g-line FD. Good to know.

 

[Monocacy]

Pulled the trigger on a star Hawkeye. Came in today, penned 163.

Hope you like it. That was the pink disc I threw on most holes at Braem.

Not that my throws in the slush were much of an advertisement . . .

 

[@CD-]

Based on the pdga specs I was willing to believe it's the same mold. Now you have the man himself speaking out and saying it's a different disc.

We now need a solid reason that dunipace would lie about that when the demand for a halo FD would be plenty to sell them out.

The one thing I can think of is the manufacturer name change. Why did they switch the dm originals to have the manufacturer listed as "innova pro shop" ?

There could be a legal/pdga approval reason they had to create a separate manufacturer for those discs. And if they wanted to release/approve the FD under "innova champion discs" they had to claim it was a different mold altogether.

But I wouldn't put it on DaveD to make an open faced lie. I work hard to maintain my naiveté

My theory. Hailey king wasn’t supposed to say it was a halo FD, but she did. Oops. Innova marketing strategy was to say it’s a different mold, which is what Dunipace is now saying. It’s not really a big deal either way, whether he lied or not.

30s into this latest video Dave D. is now calling it the old FD

 

[twistedraven]

Wish I could retroactively shove that video in every person's face who gave me grief on reddit. Those were the same people who kept on referring to Dave's remarks about it being a completely new mold.

 

[ray1970]

Wish I could retroactively shove that video in every person's face who gave me grief on reddit. Those were the same people who kept on referring to Dave's remarks about it being a completely new mold.

Deniers. They probably think Innova no longer makes a PD, P2, or an MD3 either.

 

[Tinkles]

Anyone thrown the new halos? How do they fly/compare?

 

[Monkeypaws]

Pulled the trigger on a star Hawkeye. Came in today, penned 163. Pretty domey with the blizzardyish looking rim. Kinda slick feeling tbh, not like Z plastic by any means, but not the grippiest. Can't wait to toss it around. Unfortunately it looks like Siberia outside currently :\

I did the same, 163 as well - threw it yesterday in very windy conditions. It didn't do great in the headwind, as expected, and I stink at throwing with a tailwind. Will give it a try in more normal conditions.

Agree with your comments on grip. Having thrown a good number of FDs, it didn't feel quite the same in the hand. May have been the cold.

 

[Tinkles]

Got some field work in today with a first run halo against a 2nd run FD which is admittedly beat to hell. BH, they flew similar with the 2nd run having a little more finish at the end. FH, the 2nd run was much more torque resistant. The halo hawkeye is a nice run of FD that I would put on the beefier side of FDs but not at a 2nd runs level.

 

[ff33]

halo first run was perfectly straight, after that, the HK bottom stamp and the other 22 i have were that slicky kinda plastic and not the matte finish of the first run. much more OS and not dead straight. Not crazy OS but very noticeable among runs

 

[runningDoc]

i recently bought and threw the dark rebel in champ plastic (dong rebel stamp) and its very similar/analogous to a 5th run C-Line FD.

A little dome-ier, glide-er, and less stable version of old school champ plastic FD. But its still an awesome FD for those that like FD.

I bagged 6th runs (a little flatter, faster, and a touch more OS at the end than 5th runs) and 6th runs and lost my 2nd to last original innova-discmania made 5th run and finally had to try a replacement and was relieved to see that the dark rebel (dong stamp) is a good-ole innova made Discmania replacement.

now i'm going to try some hawkeye F2's to see if its a good FD replacement but even cheaper.

 

[ILUVSMGS18]

i recently bought and threw the dark rebel in champ plastic (dong rebel stamp) and its very similar/analogous to a 5th run C-Line FD.

A little dome-ier, glide-er, and less stable version of old school champ plastic FD. But its still an awesome FD for those that like FD.

I bagged 6th runs (a little flatter, faster, and a touch more OS at the end than 5th runs) and 6th runs and lost my 2nd to last original innova-discmania made 5th run and finally had to try a replacement and was relieved to see that the dark rebel (dong stamp) is a good-ole innova made Discmania replacement.

now i'm going to try some hawkeye F2's to see if its a good FD replacement but even cheaper.

I haven't thrown the Champ Hawkeye, but the Halo I did throw was very similar in flight to the DM molded C/S-FDs. I've also thrown a Star Dark Rebel and that was much more what I remembered an S-FD flying like versus the Star Hawkeye.