Is it possible to just never get good at a sport?I always wanted to drift. I used to rip the e brake in snow and dirt but I just suck at it. I bought a simulator setup and been using it for years and I never get better. I can barely drift around one wet corner. I just don’t think I can get good at it i never know where the cars gonna go until I hit the throttle and I’m already sliding out of control.
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
>>187150Of 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
>>187150driving is not a real sportit's the same "sport" as darts, video games and chess
>>187150just find an arcade version of Sega Daytona USA, the drift mechanics of that game is the best of all video games racers.
>>187150find a teacher dumbass
>>190230I love that game!
>>187150Do 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
>>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.>>187150Learn more. Somewhere there is a key to your problem, and I suspect learning+practice will solve it.
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.
>>187150>Is it possible to just never get good at a sport?You mean like being Jewish?
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.
>>196184it'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.
>>187150There are tons of people who just do activities and never do the film study to improve. Do your research
>>187150yeah, talent is a real thing
>>187150Yeah. 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.
