Drift Beginner

[tridentt150v]

What is the best way to learn drift for the novice.

Pay $500 and do a drift school for the day, use their cars to start with etc?

Attend some club days and learn from others?

The first is expensive, the latter is likely non productive or teaches bad habits.

I'm a bit isolated, country nsw is not exactly drift centre of the universe. So will likely use the first option for high impact - means I don't have to keep travelling backwards and forwards to Sydney repeatedly, but can do a couple of drift school days and then progress to the club days if I want.

[zebra]

If it were me...I'd do the training days.

[Beer Baron]

yep, I would go to a training day. going to club drift days is ok, but if you don't pick it up fast you will easily get frustrated. also 90% of those days do not allow any passengers so you can't have someone in the car with you and you really do need that to show you what you're doing wrong. asking people for tips and hoping for the best does not always work. you'll learn more in 1 full day or proper instruction than you would at half a dozen club/open drift days I think.

[NZM.031]

the baron is right... use someone elses properly set up car, and someone who knows how to drive it... they can teach you its behaviours and driving requirements which you can then take to your car... whereas you might think you need more power... you might find out that you actually need more entry speed or some simple suspension tweaks..

i did a rally day... it was expensive, but a load of fun and something ill never forget.. the lessons learnt there have helped me with getting the most out of all my cars.

which part of country nsw are you from??

[Majanal]

Mate I would have to agree with the above and suggest the school. It's a shorter way to learn what has taken us years to work out. You certainly won't be lining up for Drift Australia after your first day, but you will have the basic skill set to take forward if you like drifting. Other benifits are that at least with the Project D drift school you get to use cars built by some of Aus best drifters, trained by the guys that built them, and you don't have to beat up on your own car.

You might even see me! lol

I still gotta learn to drift too

[Anthony13]

Id suggest school!

But...

If you have, or know someone who has a big empty paddock its pretty handy. That's where i've done a bit of testing, trying stuff out, although its a very different feel to tarred surface etc, its still pretty good for a bit of a practice go, not to mention shits and giggles.

Edited July 13, 2009 by Anthony13

[Tappo]

yea training days for sure...... not only do you get your handy hints but its legal:):)

[Project D]

I definitely recommend attending a School day to start out, it is well worth the price. You are being taught in our purpose built drift cars by our professional and experienced instructors.

www.projectd.com.au

Have a look at our new website it's got everything you need to know, our instructors are also on our forum pretty much every day so feel free to ask them or myself anything you need to know.

Amy