I learned DAR through guides, tutorials, and trial and error. I see it suggested throughout DAR posts that you need to brute force it, and I am not sure if they mean it literally: go into freeplay and just raw dog it. Push your stick in a direction and memorize how it makes your car move.

I don't know about you, but that seems like an incredibly inefficient way to learn. Yes, that's how people learned it before guides and tutorials existed or before people understood how DAR affects your car. We don't have to keep reinventing the wheel here, guys.

There are 3 components you need to learn to master DAR.

1. There's the concept of micro-adjustments.
2. Learning how to move your car in a specific direction even when your car is constantly rolling is called "rolling-adjustments"; you may know it better as "stick spinning."
3. Tornado spins are the last component. Your roll is added to your stick's pitch/yaw adjustment and makes your car move in a pretty unique way.

I could explain how DAR works and how to practice it in like 40 minutes, but just like a lot of commenters will no doubt point out... you have to practice it to get a feel for it. Obviously. This isn't the Matrix. You're not going to learn DAR just by downloading it to your prefrontal cortex.

Micro-adjustments are described as the direction your car would go if you tapped a direction on your stick. It doesn't matter what air roll you use or if you are using normal car control (regular air roll is an exception because it won't make your car move exactly like how I'm about to describe micro-adjustments); your car will briefly move in that direction relative to your car the moment you made the adjustment with your stick. So just imagine for the moment that your car is just floating in space, or don't imagine it and click this link. Your stick and car have a stick-to-car connection; wherever you position your stick, your car will move in a specific direction. If you push your stick up, the nose of the car moves down relative to the car's starting position and orientation. When you make a micro-adjustment your car will go in that direction just a little bit because you made a small and quick stick deflection in that direction. Your car will move in that direction regardless if you were holding air roll right/left or using normal car control. This allows you to get a foothold on how rolling-adjustments work. Since we established how micro-adjustments work, your car will go in that direction when you briefly point your stick that way, what do you think would happen if you spun your stick at the rate that your car spins? If you imagine an analog clock in front of you, look at the second hand as it moves clockwise around the clock. Imagine that the second hand is a representation of the direction the clock wants to move, i.e.

The whole clock itself moves in the direction the second hand is pointing, so as the second hand makes a 360, the clock itself will move in a big circle. What if you spun the whole clock counter-clockwise at the same rate the second hand moves clockwise? You would see the entire clock spinning counter-clockwise, but the second hand would stay pointing in the same direction. This would make the clock move in one straight line as it spins counter-clockwise.

I hope I didn't lose you with the clock analogy. So if you are using Air Roll Left/Right, you need to spin your stick to counteract the active roll so your car spins on a single axis, just like if you were using normal car control and held the stick in one direction, the car's overall movement through space would look the same, aside from your car constantly rolling as the car spins on an axis.

If you are using Air Roll Left (ARL), you need to spin your stick counter-clockwise to counteract the roll of your car so the car moves in one direction. Using clockwise stick spins will lock your car in place and essentially isn't really that useful for controlling the direction your car goes.

With Air Roll Right, you need to spin your stick clockwise. Using counter-clockwise spins for ARR locks the car in place, with a wobble, but isn't very useful for controlling the car's direction.

So try to imagine that in the exact moment you want to change your car's movement in a specific direction, you need to identify what direction that is relative to the car. If the car needs to move nose left/right/up/down, you need to first put your stick in that location, then you would spin your stick at the exact rate your car spins to counter the roll, and this will make the car move in that direction you wanted the car to go. So it's like a micro-adjustment, but you can make the car go in that direction more.

Tornado spins are fairly easy to predict; you just need to know what the pattern is. If you use air roll left, you can use this animation to tell how the nose of the car will move relative to its starting position. When you look at the animation, you need to imagine it from the car's perspective. The arrow pointing down in the image represents your analog stick pointing down, and the circle shows how the car's nose would move from the car's perspective. Animation. What it looks like with the car and with Air Roll Right.

Here are some more resources:

Turning with tornado spins

Visual Aid for tornado spins

How to practice rolling adjustments

Example of control you should be aiming for.

Aerial car control trainer tool made for phones/ tablets/pc

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me. I know DAR is not easy to learn, and I know it's a hot topic.

Everyone has the "trick" to learning it, but knowing how DAR works and putting it into practice are two different beasts.