*SCREECH*
*CRUNCH*
“Bugger”
That is the sickening sound of a Volvo 340 wheel hitting a kerb whilst trying to kill it’s driver on a wet UK roundabout in 2005. The driver in question was an inexperienced 19-year-old driving his first rear-wheel-drive car and not having a damned clue how to stop what was happening!
Turns out getting scared out of one’s mind and having a decent repair bill will make a person want to learn how they’d completely buggered things up. Who knew?
Fast forward 6 months and that same young man had encountered the fledgeling UK Drift Scene, been to a number of grass-roots events, made a few life-long friends.
This unique bunch of idiots then crashed a bit more, rebuilt a bit more, and finally fell down a rabbit-hole of Japanese car culture!
They went on to drive as part of a few very well-known European drift teams at National and International level, as well as doing a lot of drift tuition for various European Motorsports Schools, and some stunt demo teams before finally coming together in 2014 to form Tsujigiri Collective.
Why Tsujigiri? What does it even MEAN?
The origin of drifting is on the streets, specifically the mountain Touge of Japan. In the UK, at least, that tradition continued for a while as certain young reprobates (not us, obviously…) went out to industrial areas and tried to replicate what they had seen on their Option DVDs and early YouTube. Sadly; industrial areas in the UK aren’t over-burdened with mountain roads, so most UK drifting started on cross-roads.
What’s that got to do with Tsujigiri?
Well, the origin of the word is the Japanese Samurai phrase for “cross-road killing” or, more accurately, “to test out a new sword on a random passer-by”.
What was a mid-90’s phrase for doing something well? “Killing it”! So these people (not us, we’ve already said that…) were “killing it” at the crossroads.
You see what we did there?
No?
Yeah, alright, that groan you just made is fair, but at least we tried!
What we do
The goal of Tsujigiri is to bring all that 40 years+ of combined drifting experience from the team, be it in real life or on a simulator, and present it so that you can make fewer mistakes than we did over that time!
Whether it’s the history of the sport, car choice and setup, digital drifting and rig building, terrible jokes, or drift tuition and techniques; Tsujigiri Collective has the knowledge and experience to help you find what you need and progress your understanding of controlling the out-of-control. Who knows, you might even enjoy the odd laugh at our expense along the way!
All the information you could possibly want can be found in our various blogs.
Enjoy, and remember; Be More Duck!
- Tsujigiri Collective