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Drifting: Sideways From Japan to America

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The beauty of this book is how the author captures not only the aspects of top-tier professional drifting, but also how the sport has maintained a close connection to the people that love it. Unlike most forms of motorsport drifting is still accessible on a spectator level and to those who want to participate. Alvendia captures these many facets of drifting in one impressive package.

To say that Antonio lives and breathes drifting would be an understatement. His love for this young (in the US) motor sport has taken him all over the United States and Japan with frequent stops in Hawai'i to check in on the scene there as well. With his camera always at the ready and a huge smile on his face, Antonio has documented the growth of the drifting phenomenon here and abroad, the results of which can be found in this book. Since he is a photographer by trade, the pictures are top notch, but the real surprise to me was the narration of the book as he covers everything from the canyon runs with the Battle Swing and Swing Battle AE86 crews from many years ago to the current professionally sanctioned Formula D series. All of this history and information was pulled from his own first hand accounts, as well as from interviews with current professional drivers on the Formula D and D1 circuits. If you have any interest in drifting AT ALL, you need to pick up this book. I cannot recommend it enough!

I bought this book along with 2 other drifting books from Amazon.com after getting excited about the concept from the movie "Fast and the Furious, Tokyo Drift". I like this book not only for the tons of rockin' pictures, but the true insight to what the drifing world is all about. You can tell from the content that that the author is THE authority on drifting. Everything from the history, lifestle, and the ladies of drifting are eloquently covered.

Drifting: Sideways From Japan to America by Antonio Alvendia is a real nice looking hard covered book that sits on my coffee table as a conversation piece. I really wish I didn't buy the other books on drifting that are just collect dust on my bookshelf. Maybe Amazon will let me return those.

I love this book. It has awesome photography by Antonio. You can feel the action in the photos. You feel like you're right there in the crowd when they hand the trophy to the winner. It doesn't feel like a documentary, you feel like you're behind the lense. I'm glad I bought the book. The book is hardcover and the quality of the photographs get your adrenaline flowing. My visitors are so fascinated by the photo's of these high performance cars sliding out of control with blankets of smoke trailing their tires. I'm real happy with this purchase.

Anthony, [...]

I gave this to my son for his birthday. He loves it! It is a nice quality book. If your kids are talking about drifting and you don't have a clue, but would like to know what they are talking about, get them this book (and read it yourself).

I guess i was impress or going off of what other people were saying about how great this book was. I was expecting in detail how to drift, what i needed to do, and so forth. But it wasnt, it was more or less the history of drifting and how it came from Japan to America as the New car craze. It has how to drift, but very limited. This book should not be confused with a How To. book.