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Originally posted by fingersman
Hmmmmmmmmm I've been driving for about 4 years I think and i can drive better than my mom ( or so I say) , well Gekko soon enough you'll be balancing the cluth and gas, then you'll move on and have your foot sideways pressing the gas and the brake at the same time ( i call it cross footing). Then you'll go to handbraking around corners.....and then you'll crash your first car as all teenagers do ( well except me of course. 4 yrs and no accidents  ...yeah for me)
Well ok maybe not crash your car but I can assure you that you will get the urge to handbrake the car atleast once....I don;t know knnow what it is but everyone of my friends who drives has hankbraked atleast once...I don't know maybe it's a guy thing.
But I hope you get your license, then after you get it, that's when you really have to learn to drive. yes and you'll also learn new cuss words.
Oh yeah I advise you to stick this on the back of your car
KEEP HORNING I'M RELOADING
or
MY HORN IS BROKEN WATCH FOR THE MIDDLE FINGER
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Cross footing? It's actually called heal-toeing, if you care. Don't see any reason to use it if you're not racing (like racing with turns, rally racing for example, not drag racing). Handbraking, 'round here we call it whipping ****ties. That's something i've actually done with a driver's instructer
In reality, if there's a safe place and snow of the ground, it's something you should do. My sister hit a patch of ice before, and she kept spinning, did close to a 900. Now if you knew what you were doing, could've easily stopped it a few turns back. It's something worth practicing if there's no possible danger, and do it on snow so your tires don't stick to the pavement and cause a rollover, but the people doing it are doing it for the spin, so they never learn how to get out of it.
Maybe it's a guy thing, I'm sure it is. But it ain't worth it. We all have the urge to drift around corners and everything, do drag-race between stoplights, but it isn't safe, and honestly, I have no desire to do it. I've been in cars that were out of control, not going to purposely do it again. I've talked to people who were street racing and came about an inch away from nailing a parked car at 120mph. Trust me, "being a teenager" is not the way I plan to end my life. If I want to feel the rush of driving, I'll go to the track, where I'll at least live to feel it again.