Lets try to learn a new stunt for your car known as heel-toe shifting which is performed in sync with drifting.

Before getting on, let us try to understand what heel-toe shifting actually is:

Heel-and-toe is a technique for driving that is especially enacted in performance driving. It includes using multiple controls such as the accelerator and brake pedals together using the right foot, while the clutch is used as in normal conditions using the left foot. This technique is utilized while braking the car and downshifting it simultaneously in maneuvers such as going around a turn. It also lets drivers to “blip” the throttle that raises the speed of the engine and the lower gear is also engaged smoothly.

Looks interesting but what actually is the importance of this drifting technique?

When you are taking a turn around a corner, you will most probably in a higher gear and will be in high speed as you reach the corner. But when you take the turn, you will break and reduce the speed. Therefore, when you complete the turn and come out of the corner, you will have reduced the speed but will not have changed the gear, which will put the gear out of place. This means that gear will not be correct for proper acceleration to get out from the corner. Also, in case you are drifting, you will not enough power for keeping the tires spinning. If you use the heel-toe technique, the car will remain in the “power band” and you will be able to use all the power during complete maneuver over the corner.

So having understood the use of the technique, we are convinced that heel toe shifting is one thing that is very essential to learn for a driver. And the right time to id is right at the beginning. So that you can get lot of practice of this very important and cool thing. This is in fact important before you learn drifting.

Once you learn both drifting and heel-toe shifting, you will realize that heel toe is really very important for drifting. And you can actually learn the more simple and safe heel toe technique much before you actually go for drifting.

So just take out your car, go any where (as you don’t need to be really high on speed to try and practice this) and follow these simple steps for heel-toe shifting:

1) Start braking the car as you approach the car

2) Keep the breaks on during the turn

3) Push the clutch in

4) Push the accelerator through one side of your foot to speed up the engine.

5) Lower down the gear and simultaneously, take away the foot from the brake and move completely to the accelerator.