The Whippet is a very overstable fairway driver from Innova, rated 6 / 3 / 1 / 5 — a utility disc for hard left hooks, headwinds and overhead shots rather than distance.
Positive turn and five fade mean it never goes right: at any arm speed it holds a hyzer and, thrown flat, it starts turning left early and keeps going. Three glide is the other half of the story — it drops rather than floats, which is what you want from a disc whose job is to stop in a specific place. Innova’s own brief for it is “medium long left hooking shots”, spike hyzers, thumbers and tomahawks, and skip shots, for experienced players. Infinite’s reviewer averages across 21 reviews come out at 6 / 3.1 / 1 / 4.9, so the rating is exactly how it flies.
It fills the meat-hook slot beneath the Firebird in speed and above the Banshee in fade — the disc for a 250-foot dogleg left, a forehand flex into a strong headwind, or getting out of trouble over a tree. It is not a distance disc and it is not a beginner’s disc: a slow arm will hyzer it straight into the ground.
PDGA approved on 7 February 1992, the Whippet is one of Innova’s oldest active moulds, on a 1.7 cm rim with a stiff PDGA flexibility of 12.25 kg. Innova does not explain the name beyond its dog-breed theme of the era.
Innova lists it only in DX at 150–175 g. Star and Champion runs exist and turn up second-hand and at retailers in small numbers, and the Star run is the one players ask Innova to bring back.
How much the Whippet turns and fades depends on how hard it is thrown. These three shapes are drawn from the manufacturer’s numbers, not from measured throws.
Measured by the PDGA when the Whippet was certified. Each card names discs that share the number, so you can feel it in the hand.
