We are the original member who had involved with very first drifting practice events, which were held at parking lot of Irwindale Speedway (House of Drift) happened in early 2000.
Our school chief instructor, Taka, has been in driving industries for over 25 years, and our admin and assistant instructor, Yoshie, has been in driving industries for over 15 years.
At that time, there was no drifting schools available. Only information we could get were videos and magazines from Japan, only available in Japanese.
We have studied and learned drifting techniques and drift car set ups by "Trials and Errors" for the growth of the grassroots for drifting community and later to aim better result in drifting competitions.
Hiro Sumida, Taka's driving partner, and him were the original drifting lesson programs' developers, called "Drift 101" in the US, who had been competing in Formula D series since their origin (2004).
With the drift event organizer, we started official drifting lesson, Drift 101, as a partnership, and soon started offering "Drift 102" as our own advance lesson in 2006.
Our responsibility was to create / improve the training program for the students and to develop the instructors for the school.
Yoshie was mainly a tester to give feedback to the created programs because she had least driving experiences with least knowledge about cars among three.
We decided to operate our program independently later year and have changed our name to "Drift School USA" to offer more detailed and expanded programs from the first step.
It has been very grateful that we had a chance to get involved with drifting scene in the US from the origin.
Thank you very much for the support to all organizers and people to evolve our drift school in today.
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