How to Drift LIKE A PRO in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe!

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0:00 Intro
0:19 How to Drift
2:06 Basic Techniques
3:34 Advanced Techniques
7:24 Extra Techniques
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[@micahdavidson1]

I’m a casual, but two things have helped me. First is being able to seamlessly transition to a drift from a trick ramp. I didn’t know you could hold hop after landing back. Helps with those immediate 180 turns. Second (for online play) is sliding out, left or right. This helps to quickly avoid something immediately in front or behind me, or to swing out and grab a mushroom that just fell from a lightning.

[@YesYesYesJeff]

Thanks I was terrible at this game and now I'm still terrible 👍

[@JarcraftedStuff]

😱

[@pausmola]

💀

[@terrencecrawfish]

If you started on switch then the curve is tough. I played this game on Wii U for years and I’m still happy when I’m just in the top 6, really happy when I podium and ecstatic when I win. Keep practicing though and one day you’ll sometimes do well lol

[@terrencecrawfish]

@@brendongoodreau5644 shut up.

[@gentez1]

wow gg

[@geo3317]

About the kusaan slide technique, I've done multiple test on excitebike arena and I've noticed something interesting. So the patch they added that killed firehopping only kicks in when to do multiple sideway motions, but for some reason you can technically bypass the patch for a fraction of a second during a trick boost by doing just one or two normal side hops, slides or neutral hops. The amount of speed gained is about the same as doing the kusaan slide. This is just from what I've experienced so i could be totally wrong.

[@B0TT0]

Just 10 days ago you had 10k subs, now you have 30k, what insane channel growth and well deserved channel growth

[@Billyb0b557]

6 months later and they have 126,000

[@kaizerprobablydoesntdoanyt180]

It's interesting just how many of these I was doing instictively. I only really need to learn soft drifting (which isn't complicated) and delay drifting.

[@islakairiaball]

Great job on this video. I have been annoyed trying to get my drifting right, and the fact you're able to prove that drifting is such an easy feat, I've had no problems after watching. Great job, and keep up the good work! (I'm more of a casual player, but I like competitive sometimes, in which I will play with either one of my 3 mains; Link, Wario or Villager) Also, regarding the message in brackets above, does anyone have any tips for a decent combo for Villager that uses the Roller wheels? Thanks and great video JP.

[@falk9417]

Neutral drifting is really important on 200cc, keep that in mind. Its also essential in top play for blue outruns for example

[@falk9417]

rTT 200 (Toads Turnpike) uses a lot of neutral drifting for example

[@superstarbros1.0superstarb38]

Yeah that’s why when in 200cc you should hold B while drifting (not the whole time) to help you control it better and not fall of cliffs

[@LaloGaming14]

It’s crazy to me that the only thing I didn’t know about drifting was the last technique. I must’ve just learned it long ago. Great vid btw!

[@gentez1]

thanks for this complete video on mk8 ^^

[@benshallandblingo4493]

Thanks for showing me different drifting it really helps me in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

[@Jotaroo99]

I don't know if this is already known or not, if you do an smt followed by 1 neutral hop followed by 2 hard hops to one side, you can fire hop. I found an example on sydney sprint first turn, you can get an smt and do 2 hops to realign and get ready for the mt trick... BUT if you charge a smt and slightly thighten the drift angle, you charge the smt faster and if you do the 3 firehops, you save about .150. It feels like the 3rd hop so the last hop after the smt is a firehop.

[@yuumetal2363]

great video. this helps beginner

[@theuglymawg45]

drift in mk8d: 😃 drift on joycons: 😟

[@joaozingames9102]

Underrated comment, Lol

[@RA1NB0W-Mutal_Destuction]

JPG, my comment earler today follows up to your best kart combo, but still, I'm researching my Bowman's boost on the BB's in mk next. So I will keep you posted with these combos, as well as one rn: Dry Bones, Mr scooty, Auser roller, and squirrel glider. This is my fav considering an try hard bike, yet it's gonna require more / longer drifts. But thx for the info, and have a great time as a full-time Yt!!

[@thanksgivingh6185]

thanks for the vid mate

[@augustinai.hilary5853]

Thank you for this information.

[@holidayhares6476]

Nice punctuation.

[@twhylerm]

Super short vid, but insanely informative and straight to the point. Other videos like these over complete things I get completely lost… also I didn’t know that you had to press r again after you go off the ramp to glider vector… i’ve been wondering why it wasn’t working lol

[@BlaximilianD00d]

Mario Circuit 3 is another good track to practice drifting.

[@danyhero836]

Good video.. I would like to learn about slides in MK8DX, for example the slide that is done in Water Park before the stairs at the beginning of the track, I don't know its name but I don't know how to do it either, and other examples like the demon slide, and that kind of advanced techniques, it would be nice in any video, unfortunately the video did not have subtitles

[@ChickenStudios77]

Great video

[@Qwerty10254]

That stuff on water park blew my mind, you basically went out of bounds, incredible

[@greigite5191]

extremely helpful video, i've been wanting to get sub 1:25 (150cc)on big blue for a while and this might be the push i needed

[@benhur2806]

Sub 1:25 on 150cc? What are you, a wizard?

[@greigite5191]

@@benhur2806 i stopped playing 11 months ago, i was at 1:25.624, and its literally the only course in the game i play, i think ill try to go for it again, thanks for reminding me

[@benhur2806]

@@greigite5191 Are you sure you're not playing 200cc though? All 3 laps in 1:25 on 150cc is mathematically impossible...

[@greigite5191]

@@benhur2806 isnt world record like 1:23.3? if thats what i remember best segmented is almost 1:22 aswell

[@benhur2806]

​@@greigite5191 Maybe on 200cc, but the fastest 3-lap on 150cc is 1:50.968...

[@clairenicholls8024]

Is it me or I like watching the car hop ? Cute little hops 😂

[@ShirmaAkayaku]

As someone who soft drifts all the time, I prefer angling the L stick up instead of down due to the fact that you can accelerate by holding up or down and I'd want to avoid accidentally slowing down.

[@adityas9377]

Doesn’t accelerating with the joystick only apply to the right stick?

[@joneyisbigfunny]

Looking back on this. I’m surprised I taught myself most mechanics. I’m now working on counter hoping, delayed driving and motion gliding

[@miniya]

Same! A lot of it comes naturally when playing a lot. I’m trying motion gliding now too once my gcn adapter arrives

[@idkfirej1]

Okay cool. Now just gotta wait a few months and use it to win my schools MK8DX tournament.

[@balboaunderdog1968]

While drifting on a long enough curve counter steer even if you don't have to. The more you counter steer the quicker the boost builds up. Even if you start your drift sometimes it's worth it to spam the joystick left and right really quickly... Drifting is the key to winning races

[@dk7541]

Practice makes perfect man

[@meganuts2183]

Because of this tutorial i got a time trial record of 1:10:423 in mushroom gorge😃

[@absalon_5]

Man this videos are so good, but the lack of inputs and visuals really kills me off

[@kd_ss]

That’s what I’m saying!! Really gotta bust ur brain in a bit more to comprehend

[@newerboomerangmiaro7778]

You should do a video where you race with the ALL Gold Combo only

[@kenzithomson208]

Hi jp how do u play with teams and gain mmr is there a discord server?

[@joshuabolanos23ify]

Are we going to see a 2022 JPG compilation 🎉?

[@fennec2996]

you couldn’t tell me this 7 years ago? oh wait-

[@dragonite4242]

I have a friend who mastered these techniques and she's usually a lap or to a head of myself and the computer and that's on 200cc

[@shironeko1843]

When you're able to do all of this but never knew the techniques were called.

[@kroberts88kr]

So, do you soft drift in the opposite direction of the turn of same direction? I just end up turning hard as if i was flat 90 degrees... doesn't make sense otherwise

[@SimonMGhostAcardia117]

Thanks mate, i almost destroyed 200cc because of you!

[@everettedl]

What are the hops you do after drifts? I notice you do those often between drifts and sometimes you don't.

[@extremepayne]

Two main types of these: hops after a drift to get better alignment (like on the first turn of mariokart stadium shown here, when he builds the UMT he's going towards the wall and he corrects with a hop) and hops before a drift to make building levels of miniturbo easier (called counterhopping).

[@cherriemaesicad8830]

Can you help me when i try to do the drift at the start my drift wont turn when i do opppsite and try to turn on where i am drifting it doest work

[@AndremarYt]

🔥

[@ITheGuy]

Bro tryna get the Purple boost from that drift 😂

[@el_melo6242]

Make a tutorial on how to use the motion glider

[@GNHawkBA23]

How do you soft drift? I’m having trouble getting this.

[@Yoshi21697]

What tracks would you recommend for practicing all the advanced techniques?

[@reshiramwings5000]

I noticed that occasionally when I enter a drift, I start drifting in the opposite direction than what I am holding. Do you have an idea why that is? I know it is not JoyCon drift...

[@reshiramwings5000]

@The Neptune Gamer Well, I am not encountering any symptom of JoyCon drift, and I should know since my original pair got really bad drift. The problem does not happen very often, and I do also encounter it on Mario Kart 7, but a lot more rarely.

[@Heartache2491]

That first advanced one hurt my brain a bit, how does that work? I know it's explained, but I need some extra help with it

[@euclid1618]

possible to soft drift with tilt controls?

[@TymJun]

Ajo imma just keep drifting the standard way

[@dil7508]

4:07 the normal drifting went faster 💀 i don’t get it

[@blagd]

Ah I wish you covered the hops you and others seem to do before drifting. I've heard them called alignment hops or counter hopping but I still can't get my head around its use

[@tylerlegend7205]

I'll explain it, so imagine a very sharp turn like the first one on the rainbow road, if you UMT off of that and don't slow down somehow on a heavyweight build you will fall off the edge. That's where you would hop to the left once or twice which slows down your cart and allows you to drift almost immediately afterwards in the other direction without going too far to the right. The other one is too align for ultra specific shortcuts like the dragon driftway cut or hopping in the opposite direction after a drift so your boost goes straight instead of diagonal. Hope this helps.

[@blagd]

@@tylerlegend7205 ahh thanks for clarifying that!

[@vanishedbark6136]

Should you be hopping after you release a mini turbo?

[@CatSurfer]

Only in the original Mario Kart 8. Not Deluxe

[@vanishedbark6136]

@@CatSurfer Thanks

[@indigomizumi]

Can you do a video like this for inside drifting bikes?

[@sawyercolvin7204]

It won’t happen, nobody cares enough about inside drift in this game. My heart goes out to my inside drift main family

[@indigomizumi]

@@sawyercolvin7204 I've tried inside drift on MK8 but it does seem like inside drift just isn't as popular as it is on Wii, or even as powerful as it was there.

[@rabbidnbk8144]

​@@indigomizumi I main inside drift for this game and finding vids and advice for them is impossible lol. You sorta just have to test stuff on your own because almost all videos are for outside drifters.

[@indigomizumi]

@@rabbidnbk8144 I main outside drift. I gave inside drift a shot but it doesn't seem to offer much advantage.

[@indigomizumi]

@@rabbidnbk8144 I main outside drift. I gave inside drift a fair chance but couldn't see much of an advantage.

[@Pardi_1228]

If you learn nothing about this video, use an inward bike.

[@paulabarriosaviles2101]

Never

[@Pardi_1228]

@@paulabarriosaviles2101 cómo fastidias 😜🤪🤪🤪

[@JPGiviner]

HAHAHA

[@angus80w]

I already knew all of these by teaching myself and I do use inward drift all the time

[@Yoshi21697]

Never

[@Mickster114]

Okay but uhh how do i get the purple turbo. Ill be wiggling the stick while drifting forever and most i get is orange. Can never get the purple

[@Quinns_Cars]

If you have the butt antenna on (Smart steering assist ) you WILL NOT get purple. In this game it has nothing to do with wiggling the stick like in the older mario karts. Instead it builds up faster the tighter the drift is!! You can still do it on a wide drift. It just takes much longer. So just carve those corners a bit more!

[@dragonherowastaken4636]

Can you do this but with inside drift please? I'm subbed and liked.

[@hitori_wc]

👍👍👍

[@kevintucker7212]

It’s me Michael Tucker 11😊❤.

[@ashtonb561]

tutorial on MKS 😂 next tutorial vid will be on excitebike at this rate

[@JPGiviner]

LMFAO YOU'RE PROB RIGHT!

[@trainlover123trainsrock]

@@JPGiviner You should put MK8/MK8DX in the title

[@Seltaeb_]

Still cursed seeing you on Walu Wiggler ngl

[@Seltaeb_]

@@flameeeMK crange

[@Gabriel_OGDC]

And this is why I will never be able to leave the 9k-11k online points limbo... I'm a semi-casual, semi-wannabe pro... but for the life of me I just can't think of all these little things you have to instinctively just know while up against an online lobby filled with waluigi-wiggler-roller japanese players... I mean I know the basic stuff.. like steering in the opposite direction to achieve a wider turn, and in the same direction to achieve a tighter turn, and brake drifting to achieve an even tighter turn etc.... but I just can't think of all these other stuff while still dodging the endless barrage from Mr Red Shell behind me... I reached 10K points back in 2021, and now 3 years later I STILL HAVEN'T GOT ANYWHERE CLOSE TO 11K... the points distribution between 9K-11K is so unbelievably broken... I somehow get first, I get a measly 12 (or less) points... but if I get lower than 4th/5th, oh boy... MINUS 25+ POINTS FOR YOU... If I ever manage to get to 11k, I will probably actually take pity on the poor souls in the same postion as I am now and let them ahead of me at the finish line...

[@pendrawz5829]

This is hard

[@pendrawz5829]

I have monkey brain

[@Mrhamable]

I keep seeing you jump twice then drift explain that

[@swifty255wastaken]

I’m 90% sure it’s because when you’re in the air there’s less friction, so that means your boost will last longer.

[@Saffi_]

2:51 how do you play alone? Like how hes doing here

[@Yoshi21697]

It’s time trials

[@MacThePerson]

What course is he in?

[@Ben-xg6yo]

Neo Bowser City

[@BRIE....]

In the clips at the end, you show how you're hopping around after every drift but you dont explain how or why. Kinda confused

[@mewmewd.661]

Netendo single is betwr

[@preoalex8298]

i play with the d-pad

[@pvzmariosonica8fan]

I covered a soft drift in one of my videos 👀👀👀

[@terro1990]

that launch drift is insane, I don't get it xD

[@literallyjustrandomman3]

kansei dorifto

[@tubz8439]

What’s your gamer ID

[@gadixx8284]

One correction is that getting purple , orange or blue drifts doesnt depends on the time ur drifting, instead it depedens on the amoun of "rotation" you have done while drifting so while u do more wided drifts you will increase your mini turbo slower than doing closed drifts that will increase your mini turbo faster.

[@Kaishidow]

Seeing this combo makes my eyes bleed

[@tobyzilla]

I honestly don't mind seeing this combo but I'd it wasn't for you casual player's mario kart 8 deluxe would still A not be rebalinced and B the lightning would still be deadly but nope you guys have to nuf us pro player's so thanks

[@Adam.L02]

You’ve turned to the matrix! Why are you using walu wiggler 😭

[@ir6237]

Drifting in this game SUCKS.

[@googletricksyz]

700th liker

[@somebodyinsane1818]

this teach me nothing what's so special about chain drifting or early or maybe it's just I m a pro drifter from the start ig (no)

[@y2kkpop]

Thought the stuff in this video was commen sense

[@ir6237]

Bull... shit. It's a bit complicated.

[@danielgames1027]

I refuse to use the meta combo's ill use my own combo's and win that way

[@N0AHVEGA]

The lack of visuals makes everything you’re saying sound like a blur

[@SirChucklenutsTM]

every games competitive so people can feel justified i guess xd Neat tricks but im probably going to be drunk and high with friends just having fun who cares

[@Turtle2050]

Why I get worse?

[@boiiphanto2553]

just play the game with your grandparents and you will feel better

[@kevinzamora1352]

So sad that now even a casual game has some stupid "Meta"

[@CatSurfer]

Why is it sad? I think it's pretty cool!

[@Yoshi21697]

Mario kart games have had a meta for years 💀

[@SK88RR5]

You talk waaay too fast for me to comprehend what you're saying as a beginner/intermediate player

[@45H3Rz0]

What are you actually saying near the start of your videos. You say something in every single video but I never have a clue what it is

[@jessicadragonare7993]

Thanks for intending to help people, but you're nearly impossible to understand when I can't see what you're talking about. Oh. and if you're reading this, have a great day.

[@TheSeanMcC1]

Idk, just my opinion. But if you're going to upload "helpful videos" I'd recommend you show others who may not know what you are talking about. Example, at least put your controller 🎮 on screen like u did for a literal second on this one. That way people who aren't as advanced might be able to understand and want to continue to watch it stuff or possibly subscribe. Again, Just my opinion tho

[@0.5_DOG]

I was an addict for mario kart 8 (non-deluxe) whe i was like 8-11 and I got so damn good like I taking close to wr on some tracks and I love watching videos like this where I already know everything and it makes me feel smart. Also brake drifting is the only reason 200cc is possible let's be real. Also one last thing, what happened to drift hopping? When you hop back and forth after using a boost to save momentum

[@komos63]

Drift hopping, also known as firehopping was patched in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

[@theoveranalist6381]

Day 9 of telling JPG he's goated: JOHNATHAN P GIVINER YOU SIR ARE GOATED

[@SK88RR5]

You talk waaay too fast for me to comprehend what you're saying as a beginner/intermediate player