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DDay5 was this past weekend, and I had a BLAST. It’s great helping out other people who are trying to learn and get started because I remember what it felt like to be in their shoes… only, back then, we had to teach ourselves. So, you guys should realize how lucky you are that Moto and Club4AG is willing to provide us with so many resources to make learning faster and less frustrating! On Sunday, Club4AG staff was able to drive along with other registrants… The courses designed by Taka created a whole new challenge (which is expected, since at every event, Taka makes me learn something new). The advanced course wasn’t so much about entry speed, which we’ve done in the past… but instead about driving line and not only entry speed but STAYING at that speed in order to carry the drift to the other corners. It really got my adrenalin pumping… something that I haven’t felt since the first days I was learning to drift. Even the intermediate course taught me about line and how much it affects your speed during and exiting each corner. I was running a lower tire pressure during the day… and that forced me to re-learn my car a little bit… it didn’t oversteer so easily as it originally did… however it allowed me to gain more speed while drifting and hold more difficult angles. And while this helped me out tremendously when I figured it out, it made lower speed drifting more difficult and initiation on any course more difficult. I realized that I really had to exaggerate my technique in order to get the car sliding.

So at the end, there was a competition, and who placed at the end? None other than Alex Chang! Haha, I was so happy to see him win… what an idiot. He’ll probably go on and on about his Z rated tires and his strange car set-up for another few weeks. Haha! I’m also very proud to say that Nadine rocked the living $#!t out of the skid pad! She made like 6 revolutions around a cone… sticking CLOSE to it just like I wanted her to! I’m so proud, and that made the day well worth it for me. I think her next step is to learn how to use the countersteer and throttle to bring that tight radius donut out to a larger radius donut. All in time… but she’ll be getting there quickly. Good job honey… I’m so proud of you! As for me… I spun 2 times out of my 3 runs trying to go faster and start earlier… all while apexing at the wrong point in the corner! Haha – oops. That is another thing that I learned… That day was a little strange for me, since at a normal event, I’m learning technique… this time, I was learning more of a strategy: driving line, strategies at other parts of the track in order to approach a certain corner in a certain way, tire pressure… Well, I’m glad that finally I can learn something in a whole new area of drifting. I’m happy. Congrats again, world wide chang and neen180. :) Hopefully I’ll be getting some video for you soon…