@@qkls Catching a flight to Japan ain't exactly cheap. And then they had to waste so many hours waiting for the police. So clearly it isn't free and open every day.
The forgotten tapes!! Thanks for taking us we were totally blown away. It's one of my favorite memories I have with my best friend! "This better not go on RU-vid!"
Rest in Peace to Devin. What a fantastic memory to remember him by... heart-warming you and Alexi shared his experience. Badass that it ended up on RU-vid for all of us to see.
Assetto Corsa has seriously come so far, man. The old graphics you're showcasing with this video are so cool, but so dated. This game has progressed significantly. You're an awesome player man, who knew someone so skilled could genuinely make video games so cool.
I think it's because there's no artificial-ness to it and the fact it was a different time back then, It's basically all just more natural and nostalgic
The lack of detail and shit lighting forces focus on cameras main subject and let your imagination fill in the voids. Or i like to think. This is probably a concept to explore for filming with shitty cameras, or an excuse for it atleast.
Amazing as I had a very similar experience back when I was stationed in Tokyo with the US Military. We had a group of photographers and bloggers that ran a JDM Culture website out of Texas USA show up for the Tokyo Auto Salon that wanted to see some real street drifting. Soooo our little crew (all military at the time) showed up with a R34 Skyline 4door, 180sx, R32 Skyline GTST and a minivan chase vehicle at the Kawasaki train station and then we took them to Daikoku Futo and then out to the docks nearby to see some real street drifting. They took a bunch of awesome photos and video clips with their professional gear and knowledge to upload to their site once they got back home. Unfortunately they neglected to blur out our plates and posted everyone up for the world to see... As im sure you know, US Military in Japan have a special plate with a big Y on it... Sooooo next thing I know we have NCIS and MPI opening a case on us for "street racing" and most of us lost our licenses and had to sell our cars... Needless to say we did not help these guys out the next time they came to the City and I would recommend that nobody go out to the streets or Touges to drift, Keep it on the track and be safe. ;)
apparently, us military doing street drifting is quite common, at least back then. there was a whole issue on vhs(i forgot who sold it, maybe option) for Y plate drivers. the one i'm thinking of has a bunch of us air force guys driving 86s with kaicho in shizuoka.
Hey, should have done it Okinawa. Even if you raped and ran over an okinawan they would just ship you back home. You know, typical occupation army stuff.
@@kmydet ive seen that video! One of my Navy buds had it at Atsugi. This was after my case and most of us had moved on by then. We were very paranoid of any Americans that had cameras that we did not know after then. We kept our drifting to the slick pad at Fuji Speedway or events at other tracks. God I miss it so much and I hope to visit again some day.
That's one classy shot starting at 7:14, showing both cars doing their run, spinning the camera around at 7:44, commentating, swinging back on the action at 8:04 - all in one shot!
Oh man, this brings back memories. I was living in Yamanashi in 2008 and had some experiences like this. Such a classic find, glad this footage made it back to you after it passed the statue of limitations lol
This is so incredibly exciting, I love early 00s Alexi content! I hope we get to see more footage of you driving in the west virginia mountain raceway ;)
I worked in a local police station in Japan once, since there is a perfect uphill hill there are alot of drifters and sometimes I just watch them drift while my lights and siren are on, it was fun until they closed the whole road and area because nobody is doing anything about it
Man.. what a jump back The quality, style of "vloging" all of it is so amazing to see again VHS is something special Bruh when you will finally do some POV drifting again like you used to do in R32
VHS? lol It wasn't shot in the 90s, dude. Judging by the photo @ 0:46, it's a Sony DCR-SR (most likely SR45). It's a digital camera that records on an HDD or memorysticks.
Today, drift at a track. But back then, that was a whole life style on the streets. So awesome you lived it. I also think because cars were on the streets, it kept them looking good and tuned just right. Nowadays cars look like freakazoid transformers and 1000+ hp
omg, this is incredible, the video quality of this 2009 camera...i mean filter is surprisingly good but the night vision is interesting. forgot cameras used to do that back in the day. really glad you shared this with us! what a wild and nostalgic trip.
Its amazing you were out there, present in the late golden era of street racing in japan. We never had anything like that over here, i cant believe how that must have felt
@@dustyice3110 not at all most of it is trashy showboating and donuts. no culture at all. no class. parents just dont raise their children right in the US anymore
@@rzt430 go later and on weekdays. Weekends till like 2am it's always been full of drunk high schoolers and a ton of "safety cars". At least that was my experience, it could be very different where you are.
the sounds in the still of night up in the mountains really do hit different. theres something about the early hours of the morning and those sounds that hit far different for me than any racetrack ever can. nice vid
this blast to the past is the best ! i remember hearing the stories of there trip to Japan glad I got to see a glimpse of it thanks so much . mellow is eternal !
This is so wicked! what a great episode, thanks @noriyaro for posting it up and @David Vickers for finding the long lost footage. Legends Never Die. RIP Devin.
id love to see more semi-commentary style videos like this every now and then, theyre really chill! also i like the daikoku green screen behind alexi lol
I can definitely relate to how they felt, my first trip to Japan in 2017 involved a very similar story featuring a rather well known drifter & was hands down one of the best nights/mornings of my life
It's amazing to see old footage emerging of amazing memories, especially memories as significant as sharing an experience with chill blokes. Main thing is that everyone was safe, laughing and having a good time ;)
...as a skyline fanboy...that corolla sounded ACE bouncing off the mountain hillside! thanks for sharinng Alexi, this is the stuff that got me into it way back in school along side a certain anime we all know and love where you'd have to download fansubs of it! haha
Man cant wait to watch this when i get off work tonight! Also Noriyaro with the crazy youtube stats! 636 views, 2.3k likes! 😂 The people already know its gonna be🔥🔥
Thanks for the retrospective take on street drifting yet again. I think at this time i was knee deep in lurking for S13s and driving on LFS demo X. Iykyk :)
wow what a cool *fictional* story, wild how you 3d animated the whole thing also would never suspect you to do street drifting, certainly not someone who loves drifting, nuh-uh
This sort of thing is just.. really incredible to me. I mean in 2009 I was still young and in school, obsessing over these quirky cars, the likes of which I'd never seen until this odd little show called "Initial D" Drawing them in my headers instead of the date, tearing out back pages of my notebooks and doodling little "drift" battles of my own instead of learning, I really was in a trance, obsessed with this incredible culture of a land far away (to my young mind at least) that I longed to see with my own eyes, and even partake in. I do hope to visit Japan myself someday, although I think like many I know the togue scene isn't quite what it used to be, still after all these years I long and I dream of such a scene. I think the early 90's and 00's was really the "You had to be there to see it" era of street drifting, so at times I can't help but be a little jealous that I wasn't around to see it then, that said I wouldn't change where I am now even for such a thing. Really nice video Lexy, thank you for sharing
Man, I love Alexi's videos. Dude's right years older than me, and still lives the scene, as witnessed in his other, newer videos. Gives me hope. Makes me feel normal
this makes me think of the old Ziptied days like 13+ years ago, and all the crazy touge videos i would see on there from certain forum users. but even this video i dont think i ever saw on there. amazing.
