Do Shoes Help Your Technique?

[MrodDrft]

Tsuchiya sometimes wears some gangster old school shell toes.. he had these red and white ones they were so nice.

[Shin_Kudou]

I just wear plain old New Balances. However, I don't make a habit of actually drifting, just a bit of touge driving, so things may differ for me. I need some new shoes, though, so maybe I'll get something good for driving.

[panda_3ight_6]

The drift king himself, uses the same wrestling shoe's as I use for boxing... heheh I feel special!

[S13_Steve]

lolz i havnt read the other pages soo too answer this dumb question.... would u rather drift in some nice comfortable shoes or some crazy *Censored**Censored**Censored* high heels............there just answered this dumb question.....

[J-BloodAE86]

lol right now my driving shoes are these:

sorry for the humongo pic dudes

[mranlet]

Originally posted by Ghost
just cuz I'm new to drifting doesn't mean I'm new to driving...I've been driving since I was 13...because my mom doesn't drive and my dad is never around...so you can't tell me I don't feel the differnce between these things...why do pros wear driving shoes then?

I didn't mean to imply that you're ignorant, sorry if it came across like that. I also never said "you can't tell the difference between those things". I'd also be interested to know how you got away with driving from the age of 13...

I'm simply saying that I personally have never really felt the need to wear racing shoes, but if you really want to thats cool.

I thought that the origional question was if shoes really do help, and my answer was "no" and that you're probably just more fomfortable.

-MR

[Ghost]

well, first of all, I got to drive when I was 13 because I lived in italy. I drove illegaly...^_^...I guess everyone has their own opinion...but I think if you wear thiner shoes it really does help...it doesn't make you a better driver...but it makes it easier on the shifting, at least for me it does...so yeah...

[mranlet]

I can see that.

I like these posts where nobody gets pissed.

-MR

[Ghost]

yeah...there's no beef in here...we all conected by the love of drifting...

[CrazyHawaiian]

the love of barefoot drifting ... hahahahah

[dudocius240]

Hey i've been using my wrestling shoes and they are great. they are so similar to racing shoes that if i cover the top of the shoes with my pants people will swear i have racing shoes on, and i paid onlt 19.99 for them when i was in my high school wrestling team.

[mudduck3006]

i got a catalog with the sparco racing shoes in there and i had a pair about a year ago that i found in a dumpster at a self dtorage place . very nice a half size too big i wear 13 these said 13 i but they were big. the company that has them in the catalog is racers wholesale www.racerswholesale.com got a full line of sparco supplies too gloves helmets and suits when i get some cash im gonna get me another pair of those shoes momo makes them too i think

[HX-50]

Gotta love racers wholesale. anyone needing helmets for cheap i suggest looking there first, heck i think this month they have a sa2000 for like $250, you're not gonna find a better price than that

[ryen49]

Whats this mid foot techiqnue some mentioned aearlier in the thread and how do you do it. I have no need for it since my shoe size is a 10.5 and i'm only 13.But I just wanna know what it is. Thanks.

[Ghost]

midfoot is pressing the gas and break at the same time with your foot in the middle of both pedals. I've never tried it, but yeah. I guess I got used to heel toe.