Sorry if the topic seems a bit vague, it's the best way I was able to put it.

I had recently bought a load of Wii Points with money I got from Christmas, and I ended up picking up mk64 (I wouldn't have bought it if I had a n64 to play it on, I have the game but no n64.) With this I play with a GC controller.

The past 2 days I've been playing a little bit of each course, guessing what the strat is for each course, without really looking at WR videos to know what I need to do.

The whole purpose of this thread is 1 simple question. When you hold long drifts, why do you sometimes spin out or come to a complete stop? An example I can give you is the LR flap, where you shroom on the last corner in 1 huge drift, I stay in that drift but I either spin out or my drift stops. Hopefully there is a simple answer for this. Sorry if this doesn't belong here.

You can stay in a slide indefinitely without it breaking down if you only toggle the stick from time to time. But if you don't, the kart will in the end suddenly turn sharply.
    Like Christian says, you need to make it back on the road with the third shroom on that turn.

For detailed instructions about kart handling, go to the tactics section here: http://speedrunwiki.com/Mario_Kart_64

finn

you shouldnt struggle with the drift after a while when you get used to the handling, and the LR shrooms are where it is hardest not to mess up.

Nice to have you playing here you should have little trouble flying up the ranks given your MKW ability  

Thanks, but I don't think I'll be making anything impressive I'll be playing this some days, but I plan on finishing up all the courses then submitting a full sheet that doesn't have some times that have some wall hits in them (yeah I'm serious )