Anonymous at Fri, 16 Feb 2024 03:59:50 UTC No. 187189

yes, i know plenty of old men who get into mountain biking, have been doing it for years and still suck ass compared to the fearless 12 year old who started 7 days ago., having a risk tolerance, or atleast internal motivation is necessary. Do you just say you want to improve and then never do anything about it.

Its unironically very easy to learn how to drift a car in the snow, just find an empty parking lot set up some cones and then go until you can predictably do donuts and figure 8s. I also would drift my dads honda 4-trax 300 fourwheeler around when it snowed, but i also flipped it a few times.

I learned how to lift-off oversteer, and trail brake my fwd economy car into corners. and drift my parents truck around in the snow (not very well mind you but its repeatable)
hell my dad even drifts the family truck around in the winter

Anonymous at Thu, 29 Feb 2024 17:58:12 UTC No. 188856

>>187150
Of course you are going to fail at first but keep going keep practising fuck the simulators just get in a car find a place with not much people and start to drift, thats how i learned to drift using my brothers car my brother allowed me to drive his car as long as i put gas in it but he didn't know i would occasionally use it to drift too

Anonymous at Thu, 29 Feb 2024 21:15:16 UTC No. 188879

>>187150
driving is not a real sport
it's the same "sport" as darts, video games and chess

Anonymous at Mon, 11 Mar 2024 02:48:17 UTC No. 190230

>>187150
just find an arcade version of Sega Daytona USA, the drift mechanics of that game is the best of all video games racers.

Anonymous at Mon, 11 Mar 2024 13:57:55 UTC No. 190258

>>187150
find a teacher dumbass

Anonymous at Sun, 31 Mar 2024 04:49:35 UTC No. 192429

>>190230
I love that game!

Anonymous at Thu, 2 May 2024 07:05:40 UTC No. 196181

>>187150
Do it for real on a dedicated track with a car set up for drift, doing it in a game even with FFB or with a FWD shitbox on a parking lot won't take you far

Anonymous at Thu, 2 May 2024 07:43:35 UTC No. 196184

>>187189
>yes, i know plenty of old men who get into mountain biking, have been doing it for years and still suck ass compared to the fearless 12 year old who started 7 days ago., having a risk tolerance, or atleast internal motivation is necessary. Do you just say you want to improve and then never do anything about it.
exactly.
I don't even think it's a big issue, their ego is just bigger then their desire to do better.
I never really wanted to be the best (inb4 cope comment), and once I understood that I was happier.
Admittedly the best mtber I knew did dirt bikes, bmx, as a kid and had some nasty trips to the hospital.
>>187150
Learn more. Somewhere there is a key to your problem, and I suspect learning+practice will solve it.

Anonymous at Fri, 14 Jun 2024 01:07:10 UTC No. 201169

Training is different from just dicking around. Are you actually training, which is to say, intentionally bettering skills, doing research on what to improve, etc. Or are you just dicking around? Because if no progress with intentional progress, you might just be a purebred sped. If the latter, that's normal. Train with purpose and you'll get better.

Anonymous at Sat, 15 Jun 2024 08:46:06 UTC No. 201276

>>187150
>Is it possible to just never get good at a sport?
You mean like being Jewish?

🗑️ Anonymous at Sun, 4 Aug 2024 10:47:17 UTC No. 206347

>>187150
Yes >>192429
Sure

Anonymous at Sun, 4 Aug 2024 12:32:11 UTC No. 206357

on dirt/snow it's literally just gassing up to lose rear traction and counter steering to keep front traction. no idea how one can fuck it up.

Anonymous at Thu, 8 Aug 2024 23:49:32 UTC No. 207088

>>196184
it's not necessarily ego. just that when you're older and more experienced and have responsibilities and you heal from injuries a lot slower it's understandable to avoid pushing yourself "to the edge". that's not ego, that's just smart. kids are dumb. turns out doing dumb shit is pretty key to getting good at "extreme sports", an activity designed around putting yourself into unnecessary danger because modern life is so dull.

Anonymous at Mon, 12 Aug 2024 03:07:15 UTC No. 207429

>>187150
There are tons of people who just do activities and never do the film study to improve. Do your research

Anonymous at Sun, 15 Sep 2024 19:46:45 UTC No. 211071

>>187150
yeah, talent is a real thing

Anonymous at Sun, 15 Sep 2024 22:13:22 UTC No. 211085

>>187150
Yeah. I pretty much top out at average at every single sport I’ve ever played. I’ve never been good. Maybe if I dedicated way more time/money to sport I could break that barrier, but I just don’t have the resources.

That said, I think anyone can at least reach average (by enthusiast standards) if they put in the necessary work. How fast and easy you get there (or beyond) is up to talent. This goes for any field. There are 10 year old chess prodigies that beat adult grand masters that have been playing their entire life. You can’t tell me that the 10 year old just put in more work - he just has raw talent.