Today was an epic day and it brought me to think about a saying from a company team meeting we had the other day; A term called “Fleas in a jar” I never really thought about the term before but if you put fleas in a jar, for a long time they will only learn to jump as high as the lid of the jar. So in relation most of my life has been like that flea, or at least it really seemed that way as I felt I could only jump as high as the flea contained in that jar and when I was able to open the lid, in my life I was able to move forward in life with moving to Oregon was to start with my jump to higher and from there I was able to let it all go, completely. I went out the jar jumped higher then I ever have in my life or existence. To think about it in away I am grateful for the people in life that has taken advantaged of me in life because of them I have achieved a personal height and a better higher goal in my life. Where I was able to push myself much higher then that jar per-se, or you can say I am actually thinking out side of the jar now. Yep that comes in life I say, when you jump higher you will fall harder, but you can’t give up and gotta keep going keep trying to think out of the jar as if the jar never existed. Falling down hard was when I came back to Las Vegas, and did almost a full circle in my life. I am still making the jump in my life again but I am doing so slowly but never nor less keeping myself out of the jar, to always think outside of the jar and never be contained again.
With that being said, I achieved a goal today that I wanted to achieve. I drift some, I was able to connect a figure 8 and a perfect doughnut to the point I almost puked. I had one of the VD guys give me a ride along, as he has an old sentra with a vg30e so he knows a bit about my car already. He even felt the engine was stronger then his and it’s very healthy and powerful, (yay! go me!). With him he was able to help me decide what I was struggling with. That is when I learned my problem was not the initiation but it was the steering and finding the magical number between gas + steering. I have to grip it as a titan and fight it and knowing when to fight it is the magic number. From there I spent most of the day trying different things and then I started to feel it of what he was saying about it. Even Nick was telling me parts of that but I already knew what he was talking about as I was saying I am trying to feel it, in the end I felt it.
I started out today with the starter track after hunting down some air to raise the tires to 40PSI, I played around at the track and kept spinning out. After an hour of messing around and always spinning out. I had some advise from one of the drivers who even knew about the vg30 motor, and we went out to the cone place to do doughnuts. Started big and spun out, that is when he mentioned about the steering. I let him drive it to get the feel for it, and he understood right away what it is and explained to me about how I need to fight it when I initiate it and showed me the demonstration. From there I had a great and good idea and when I finally got it, I blew my first set of tires.
After that I installed the second set and did doughnuts big and small also I was able to connect 1 figure 8 then I ended up after my dizzy spell from going in circles so many times I decided to give the track one more try. First run was good just lost it when the cone was in the middle of the track, then the second run I actually did a sweeper and held the drift then boooooom! my tires went and at this time I was on my second pair of tires my last pair. From that I had to call it a day as it was a successful one. But to understand where my fault was was the best of my success and learning how to overcome it was even the better success, I can’t wait till I get more time. Next time I should be good enough to give the bigger track a try. Once I figured it out my heart has been racing and it was soo exciting since I finally got into it, it’s like having the best sex for over 4 hours straight, it was just soo damn good. I can now understand why people are addicted to this sport. I was into it at first now I am completely hooked, I bet I can drift a stock 240sx with ps and welded diff with no real issues. But it’s ok I love my s12 and the vg30e. It is just the beginning, I know and I am sure of it. But it’s great to achieve a goal I set out to achieve and did it with great success. I am now itching to keep at it, I want to get more tires and keep going. I really wished U-Drift was open again, because now I’ll have to pick random spots to mess around with until next event in November.
Now to the only pictures I could of taken while I was there. I need to invest in a gopro.
