Amauter Drifting...

[Young_Drifter2]

This is my first thread on Drifting.com, so down hate, discriminate. I want this thread to be nothing but amauter drifting. Here's what i wanna see:
1. amauter vid's
2. amauter pic's
3. discussion about midnight runs

I dont wanna see people coming on here and posting there drifting that they did at there local track day. I wanna see mountain drifting, parking lots, midnight runs (industrial area stuff), and discussion and storys about your drift happenings. Ive never seen anyone do this on another site, or this site, but i havent checked it out much so, im giving it a shot, thanks people.

[markeese180sx]

but the members of this site never do any illegal activities...

[Raziel]

Amauter Drifting.. why does it have to be on the street or moutain? Drifting on the track or on the street shouldnt matter. So automaticly when you drift on the track your a pro? Well one thing is for sure is that when you drift on the track you get 10x better than you would on the streets/moutain. I dont mean to hate and i know your intentions were good but im one of the people who think track drifting is the way to go but a nice lil touge run or parking lot ride is fun to do once in awhile but not worth the risk.

[Young_Drifter2]

Im not saying drifting on the track means your not amauter. But when people post vids, there usually at tracks. Our drift team is all about midnight runs and touge. So thats what i like to do. You know that vid by SFL? I think the thread is called SFL, but thats what i wanna see.

[marshun]

amatuer means everyone basically. cause if youre not gettin paid, youre not a pro. :P

[Ghost of Duluth]

If anyone has videos, email them to him. Don't post em.

[drift_monkee]

hmmmm....that's a good idea

[TeamSLIPdrifter]

The email thing is a good idea.

Well one thing is for sure is that when you drift on the track you get 10x better than you would on the streets/moutain

I disagree with that. Cause on a mountain you really dont have any room for error and even Ueo said that touge makes your skill grow so much faster cause your head is in it just so much more. You focus more cause you cant mess up.

[marshun]

Originally posted by TeamSLIPdrifter
The email thing is a good idea.



I disagree with that. Cause on a mountain you really dont have any room for error and even Ueo said that touge makes your skill grow so much faster cause your head is in it just so much more. You focus more cause you cant mess up.

makes your skills grow faster? i think he said it was harder to learn in the touge cause if you crash, thats bucks.

[Raziel]

Each person is diffrent. Most people will find it easier to learn at the track because its safer and you can push yourself harder. I really doubt anyone can push themselves past their limit on the mountain. Also japan is a lot diffrent from here.

[Wickdmarz]

With track you can push your car literally too the limit with many mistakes in between. Unlike the mountain...you make a mistake you crash your car or you die.

I just think theres too much ego with "tougers" saying their hardcore, because they'll risk there lives. You know what I want to get better, but theres no way in hell I'm going to trade my life for it.

Doing touge is memorizing the run, you think you get better because you can anticipate when a turn is coming. Go to another run and you have to learn all over...With tracks you can adapt alot faster and better, learn turns and speeds at which to take them.

I like cruising up the canyons, but I've seen too many go over to want to "try" to drive hard on it.

[icantdrift]

Originally posted by Raziel
I really doubt anyone can push themselves past their limit on the mountain.

you probably didn't word that as you meant it, but to clarify you will push yourself over the limit a lot faster on a mountain than you will on a track.


and to the poster of this topic, go watch some more initial D, there's your mdnight runs and touge.

[squints338]

I have a video of me and my friends all edited and ready to go. I tried putting it on wetodddidracing.com or whatever, but it didn't work because my video is like 54,000 KB. So if anyone has AIM and they can host it, I would be glad to put it up here. My AIM screen name is Squints338. Or if the guy who started this thread wants to see our video, IM me, and I'll send it to you.

[Wickdmarz]

Originally posted by icantdrift
you probably didn't word that as you meant it, but to clarify you will push yourself over the limit a lot faster on a mountain than you will on a track.


and to the poster of this topic, go watch some more initial D, there's your mdnight runs and touge.

Like over your current ability, and inturn damaging something, right?

[TeamSLIPdrifter]

well you shouldnt push yourself to the limit on the mountain. just like nissanguy once said only like 60% of your ability. but if you commit to touge i think you could grow faster cause you really cant make a mistake. but yeh, different strokes for different folks. and i dont think Ueo has that "hardcore" attitude eigther about touge.

[SilverGhost]

i think this argument is dumb, and doesnt get anywhere.... im a fan of both street and track....right now, i do it on the touge, mostly cause i cant afford to go to the trakc, and where im at there isnt much tracks that let you drift. so we go up to the mountain, but if we are drifting, we use walky talkies on this siongle hair pin and we check with the guy at the corner if its clear, then we go one at a time....we try to be safe as possible. i like to bust out in the industrial parks too, just cause its a little safer, and if the cops come you can actually maybe get away, no stuck on one road....and too all who say track is safer than street, i somewhat beg to differ....sure theres alot more control, but its just as unpredictable. my friend flipped while drifting on the track, and he had street drifted for several months prior. i dontknow, i guess its just different when you arent in a big place taht loves motorpsorts...

[Wickdmarz]

Originally posted by SilverGhost
my friend flipped while drifting on the track, and he had street drifted for several months prior.

Well that statement can't hold much ground to it, considering it can happen anytime any place, track or street. He probably caught a ridge of somesort and threw him over. But usually thats more safer on a track considering they should be constantly taking care of it, unlike a street which they sometimes pave every 10 years if you're lucky. But hey thats sucks but that should be some kind of supercious statement....

[marshun]

i know you cant make as much of a mistake on the touge as you do a track. but seriously guys. i'd love to see any of you and i mean ANY of you push yourselves past your limit on the touge. and doing choku's in between turns and linking ALL of them is above your limits. hell its above lots of peoples limits. show me a touge run of one of you guys doin this and then i'll say "touge people own". i dont have a problem sayin it either cause i learned to drift in the touge. but if i could have attended more drift sessions at the track, i would have. but theyre only once a month. it doesnt force me to go to the touge. it just made it more interesting.

get this TOUGE ELITIST crap out of your head. cause youre not impressing anyone. seriously.

[Coiloverkid]

like, totally. omg TOE-GHEY is SO-GHEY!

[jaydm180sx]

Not everyone tries to drift on the Mtn. Some of us know better and stick to grip for now.

I would love to go to a track just to practice, but #1. there are few in GA and #2. Im not rich enough to be able to pay to rent a track everytime I wanna practice.

Why does everything have to turn into a battle on this forum? First it was Domestics vs. Imports then Ricers vs. Drifters then Craig Lieberman vs. Drifting.com.
Now its Mountain Drifters vs. Track Drifters? Give me a break!

Until GA. get a track where people like me can practice without breaking our wallets. I'll just stick to my Mtn. roads and empty parking lots.

[SilverGhost]

Originally posted by jaydm180sx
Not everyone tries to drift on the Mtn. Some of us know better and stick to grip for now.

I would love to go to a track just to practice, but #1. there are few in GA and #2. Im not rich enough to be able to pay to rent a track everytime I wanna practice.

Why does everything have to turn into a battle on this forum? First it was Domestics vs. Imports then Ricers vs. Drifters then Craig Lieberman vs. Drifting.com.
Now its Mountain Drifters vs. Track Drifters? Give me a break!

Until GA. get a track where people like me can practice without breaking our wallets. I'll just stick to my Mtn. roads and empty parking lots.

yeah, seriously. i wasnt trying to offend any of you, cause like i said, if i could, i would hit the track ALOT more often...but there really arent many tracks in CO period...let alone that allow drifting. i never said we drift every corner and stuff..when we go to the touge is more of making runs using more grip than anything else, and we just drift for some entertainment and good camera shots. i think you have to consider too that when someone in japan says touge, they usually arent as technical as they are in a place such as here, just because of the scale of the mountains....the roads that best motoring use for their "touge Showdown" peices look like cake comapred to what we are used to running... its not like we go all the time either, its just if we have the gas and are in the mood, we go late at night. its as simple as that.

once again, no offense intended

[Reckless Hero]

http://cs.uic.edu/~lso/RIP240SX.AVI

[Coiloverkid]

Originally posted by Reckless Hero
http://cs.uic.edu/~lso/RIP240SX.AVI

HAHAHAHA n00b!!!!1 way too fast...

[amejin_japan]

SilverGhost: What is your experience on Japanese mountains?

[Carl]

You people are lucky you have mountains, in england its mostly flat unless you go to wales or right up north. The roads are terrible, potholes everywhere, just not in the same league as anywhere else in terms of conditions. Luckly drift days are quite cheap at the moment and its grat fun on the track.
I wouldnt reccomend learning to drift on a mountain road, learn on the track and then take that experience to the mountains.
Like others have said, loose it on a track and you spin onto grass or just come to a stop. Loose it on a mountain and you can flip your car, break through the railings, fall 500 feet to the ground and die in a huge ball of flames. How are you going to "learn" from that?

Some mountain vids are cool but its mostly incar footage and you cant really see the spectator side of the drift. I enjoy watching track drift vids because its all setup for it and the cameras are all in place to see everything.