How to Drift: Brake Techniques and Left Foot Braking

Braking Techniques for better car control and closer, more confident tandems, and WHEN to use them: including angle, handbrake, foot brake and left foot brake.

Drift Techniques, Behind The Scenes, and Bonus Content Inside!

Video Chapters
0:00 - How to Steer with Braking Techniques
1:09 - Steering with Angle and Engine Braking
2:05 - When to use Handbrake in Drift
3:57 - Introduction to Foot Braking in Drift
4:54 - When to use Normal Foot Brake in Drift
5:34 - Feint Entries with Handbrake and Foot Brake
6:35 - Using Left Foot Brake in Drift
7:27 - When to use Light Left Foot Brake
8:38 - When to use Heavy Left Foot Brake
9:43 - How to use Left Foot Brake in Tandem Drifting

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[KameTrick]

Drift Techniques, Behind The Scenes, and Bonus Content Inside!

Video Chapters
0:00 - How to Steer with Braking Techniques
1:09 - Steering with Angle and Engine Braking
2:05 - When to use Handbrake in Drift
3:57 - Introduction to Foot Braking in Drift
4:54 - When to use Normal Foot Brake in Drift
5:34 - Feint Entries with Handbrake and Foot Brake
6:35 - Using Left Foot Brake in Drift
7:27 - When to use Light Left Foot Brake
8:38 - When to use Heavy Left Foot Brake
9:43 - How to use Left Foot Brake in Tandem Drifting

[SpeedyySlugz]

Your voice sounds kinda like the “how its made” voice

[eliasdrifts]

Man, this is perfect timing! I'm going through the process of learning these techniques on my sim setup. It's been frustrating at times trying to get stuff right, but this helps so much so thank you for this!!

[Yanpoggers]

Finally an actual indepth video explaining the techniques and how it affects the car and tandem! amazing videooo

[thesprawl]

This is the best video I've seen on left foot braking. I learned sim drifting on touges, in solo, so I didn't even go online in Assetto until a year ago(I've been learning on sims for about four years now though). And left foot braking was just something that I started doing naturally when drifting touges like Happogahara. You slow down for a corner and you notice that the car naturally swings the rear out as a consequence. And by now I consider it to be almost as important as throttle and wheel control. I think of throttle, wheel and brake when used together acting as a way of triangulating the car's position. Imagine the car from overhead: you want to know exactly where it is: so you have three dots that when linked confine the car to a particular position. That's triangulation. If you only have two dots you're not going to be able to confine it to a very precise position. But add a third dot and you can determine where it is with a lot more precision. That's what adding left foot brake to throttle and wheel control does for me. Those three things triangulate the position of the car while drifting.

I was drifting a Tsubaki line lobby yesterday, a very tricky touge with tight corners and roads and a lot of elevation changes, and I was using the brake in some form for pretty much 60-70% of the run. For forcing power over in tight areas where you can't weight-transfer flick the car, for tightening angle for an upcoming corner, for slowing a transition if it's getting a bit wild in too high a gear, for reverse entrying big fast corners, etc. etc. My handbrake(do not buy Fanatec handbrakes BTW - public service information, yw) has been broken since Christmas, and with left foot brake I really don't notice its absence that much.

I don't use clutch anywhere near as much as left ft braking; other people use clutch a lot and I just don't quite understand what they're getting out of it aside from clutch-kicking for maintaining revs. I asked another YT drifter and they got quite angry and defensive because I said it seemed like left foot braking could do all of what the clutch was doing, only with more precision because you have more control over a brake than over a clutch. He said drifters only use the brake when they've made an error and left foot braking is pointless. That's when I left.

[robertoanaya]

Sweet! I made it into another video at 8:22! Thank you again Ben🤟 this was my first time ever trying to follow from a distance. Your videos gave me the confidence to try my first ever "tandem" and I totally bailed on the last turn by hitting the brakes bc I felt too close lol

[charliewastaken]

Yup, watching it for the 7tth time and still learning something. You really made a great video.

[Aztroze]

Drifting with sim is soo satisfying highly recommend trying it.

[starostadavid]

You accelerate slower is great mnemonic. :)) You accelerate slower thus letting your rear catch up and get more oversteer, thus more angle. Quality vid!

[dnz]

The fact that im watching this video on the bus is too ironic

[deqod]

I dont know which video it was but thank you in one of them you explained that you need the headroom to drift which helped me since on my favorite track i was attempting to drift while redlining often leading to me kissing the sidewall. While im not consistent yet it has helped me to succed on most corners and to be more consistent on ones that i could hit but not often

[majesticidiot]

I didn't know left foot braking was the more understood technique. It just felt natural to left for because its you can make small and precise adjustments. It just felt like the right thing to do. I would often then get confused and didn't understand why I saw people using only one foot. You're video's definitely helped me understand more about the techniques for drifting. Thank you, You are doing an amazing job making these videos, you do such a good job about braking things down simply. Amazing work.

[CharlesK]

Watching drifters is impressive already, but seeing in detail the techniques they use is astonishing 😮
Absolutely amazing 👏🏾
Might have to fire up AC and give it a go

[chadg]

This series is exactly what I freakin need! Thank you!

[jordans]

Can we get one on slipping the clutch and clutching in, during tandem driving to maintain proximity

[DallasStewartMusic]

This is a wealth of information that I’ve been needing

[vaughanq]

I'm looking to get a lot of seat time in my miata this summer, I really appreciate these well put together tips, keep up the good work dude!

[Kostas_Z]

Really nice videos and explanation of every technique!i love when you combine sim and irl!!!!thank you for the great job and effort you put in videos!

[elstyloogaming]

I love these episodes please do more !

[camcuber]

At 4:49, is there a reason that you clutch in while using the foot brake?