DD4

The Discmania DD4 is a 13-speed distance driver that Discmania classes as overstable, rated 13/5/-1/3, and the fastest disc in Discmania’s Originals line — a step up in both speed and stability from the DD3.

Thirteen speed with a touch of turn and three fade is a disc that asks for arm. Thrown at full power by a 400-foot-plus arm it pushes out long and nearly straight before a firm finish, which is the flight Discmania is selling: the company says the prototype run flew “slightly straighter than expected,” and Infinite’s two early reviewers rate the turn at 0 rather than -1. For a 300-foot arm the -1 never shows up and the DD4 behaves as a wide-rim utility driver — a headwind disc, a forehand disc, an overhead disc — with a harder, later fade than a slower mould gives you. Discmania makes that case directly: against the Splice, Tilt and FD3 it argues the 13-speed rating lets you do more with the same overstability.

In the bag it sits above the DD3 as the disc you reach for when the DD3 starts turning over, and above the Cloud Breaker for anyone who found that mould’s stability but wanted more speed. The limit is the rim: at 2.4 cm it matches the widest Discmania currently makes, and players without the hand size or speed to hold it will get a disc that stalls and dumps left.

The name is Discmania’s Originals numbering — DD for distance driver, followed by the sequence number — and the company offers no other explanation. The DD4 was PDGA approved on 23 February 2026, and its first public release was a Prototype Swirl S-Line run raising money for the 2026 European Open in Tallinn, Estonia, the first European Open held outside Finland; the lion stamp for the event’s emblem was chosen by defending champion Gannon Buhr.

So far it has shipped only in S-Line: the Swirl S-Line prototype, and a Horizon S-Line “Notch Rider” run announced as a Green Mountain Championship fundraiser. Discmania markets it beadless, and TryDiscs agrees.