low ballers – Royal Origin

Cruising With The Meat

A couple of weeks ago; our friends from Lowballers Japan paid California a visit. It was great to show them around and give them a taste of our daily Hoodrat American shenanigans. The night before they were to fly back home to the land of the rising sun we did our best to organize a meet to end their trip to California with an awesome memory. Blasted on mediums of social media the meet had an awesome turnout. Cars from all over showed up and the parking lots went bonkers. What started as a meet turn into a cruise. Explanation to follow…

BIPPU

The planned location was at the Best Buy parking lot at the Tustin Marketplace on the border of Irvine and Tustin. Although it was “scheduled” to start at 9PM, I showed up to the parking lot at 8:30 to find rows of cars already lined up and people already mingling. Cars continued to fill the lot and the parking lot got filled quick. Around 9:15 Tustin PD showed up and kicked us out. I guess there was just too many awesome cars for them to handle. Word spread quick that the next spot to meet was the Petsmart parking lot at The District down the street.

I’m not a fan of the trending crazy-sporty-VIP style, but i love the attention to detail that people put into these builds

Christ Foreman – Back into hover mode after his drift day

Every time I see this car, I lose my mind. It’s static, it gets driven, it’s awesome

Word had traveled quick as everyone was forced to leave the Tustin Marketplace. The next spot was the Petsmart parking lot at The District. Like a scene from The Fast and The Furious almost everyone rolled up and bombed down Jamboree. Oil pans scraped and cars screamed at wide open throttle to the next spot. Once everyone had reconvened at the second location, people continued to hang out but eventually Tustin PD showed up once again and escorted us all out. On to spot number 3.

JDM4Play

A President ready to rule the world

Another shot of the biblical drifting prodigy

Every time Nick rolls up to scene, he’s bumping trance.

So much beauty

It’s a rare sighting seeing Angelo with his silver other-half rather than his Korean one

One day; I will have one of my own

ForeverYoung

Drift ready

Mugen faced RSXs aren’t as common as they should be. Who doesn’t like an awesome happy looking car?

People everywhere!

NVUS came out with some cool cars

Purple contrast

It wouldn’t be a car meet without someone showing off their steering wheel

You don’t see those colors on those chassis’ too often

A Porsche that gets the girl, a comfy Lexus that keeps the girl, a van to take the kids around if the girl gets pregnant.

An old friend from the 8thcivic community. JUAN CHEESE!

v8 POWWWWAHHHHH

IS-F: “Mine has over 400hp”. IS350: “Mine has over 12k spring rates”.

Time for spot number 3…

Spot number 3 was the structure of the Diamond Jamboree Plaza which was further down the street out of Tustin PD’s jurisdiction.

Ready to disturb the peace

Wait…. why??

Two different styles, one common purpose. DRIFT.

BBS RS’ are played out you say? not when they’re built like Jimmy’s.

Royal Origin Lexus Gang

Dippin’

IIRC, this thing had an FMIC 😉

Meet J-Ho. She’s awesome for those lonely nights

More VIP Goodness

A Lexus with a hint of Benz

I need one of these in my life

All the way from Vegas

The President made it out to spot number 3!

Parking structure filled quick!

RB26DETTs were found in both of these

Hello Boso

To those who came out; thanks for showing the Lowballers Japan guys some cool cars and how committed people are in Socal. I’m sure they appreciated the magnitude of the meet and will be looking forward to the next one when they pay Socal another visit.

– Jay Tien

Instagram @jaygiatien

January 20, 2014

Royal Origin Invades Las Vegas

Hosted by Findlay Fiat
http://www.fiatusaofhenderson.com

It’s that time of the year again when we invade Las Vegas to wine and dine our lovers the Low Ballers with some meat. Celebrate our anniversary with some old fashion meats.

Where: Findlay Fiat

210 N Gibson Road

Henderson, Nevada 89014

When: Friday, March 29^th, 2013

8:00PM to 11:00PM

The best cars and people around

Jelli 96.7 Radio with DJ Remote

Fuku Burger

Oso Ono Snow Truck

Findlay Fiat

Prizes/ Giveaways

Main:
http://Royal-Origin.com

http://www.theLowBallers.com

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www.Facebook.com/LOWBALLERS

March 21, 2013

Video Timeline 2012

I recently decided to compile all my footage from 2012 into a timeline video. While I was doing this, I thought it was cool that I took the time and effort to create a video nearly every month of the year. Great way to learn from my mistakes and improve; at least I hope I am improving. In the end, I do this for fun as an additional hobby to my obsession with cars. I hope you guys enjoy a look into my 2012.

Royal Origin – Timeline 2012 from Shavi Wijegunaratne on Vimeo.

Also available to be watched on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REwX1LIbA0U

Thanks for watching.

Filmed & Edited By: Shavi W.
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January 25, 2013

Low Problems

Being low has its problems. People are always saying, “I wouldn’t be able to lower my car like that because of the roads in my area.” The roads are fucked up everywhere, you just learn to adapt to the conditions and remember where the bad roads are. In Vegas though, it’s another story. The roads there are buttery smooth and steep driveways are nonexistent. The only place you have to worry about is the strip and the hotels’ massive speed bumps, probably there for those drunk drivers who like to speed. This is a lowered car friendly city and that’s why we love to visit so often.

One of the lowest cars in Vegas would be Miguel’s Minty Z. Problems he usually has driving in Vegas would be the abnormally large lane reflectors that Vegas has. His side skirts usually become loose at every lane change.

Here, we spent the night helping him sticker bomb his front lip, which ended up uglier than we thought it would be. The idea was right, the execution just wasn’t there.

We did a little photo shoot with DJ Murdok which I will post later on. Got a cool shot of my IS250 during the shoot.

Back in Cali, we had just gotten back from Vegas and thought it would be cool to shoot Shavi’s car and see it leave the garage for once. Surprisingly, it didn’t take much effort to get out of his driveway. The Garage Vary lip can take a beating and it did because Shavi just went straight out of the driveway like it was nothing.

If I was an ant, I would be very afraid of seeing Shavi’s car on the road.

Demon Camber.

We were very surprised it actually made it down the street to shoot. I’m not even sure how Shavi gets this thing to shows.

Is Angelo angling in or is he angling out? He’s actually trying to leave the driveway. If you can make it up a driveway, you can make it out the same way.

We wanted to get some Earl of Sandwich at Downtown Disney so we went cruising around with the Colonel of Stance.

AngleLOW.

We hit an unexpected speed bump on the way there, not a figuratively speaking speed bump, but literally a speed bump. Jimmy’s car was having some battery problems, so when he was trying to get over the bump, his car got stuck and stalled. We kind of caused traffic…

Good thing Angelo was there with some jumper cables and wood to get over the speed bump. The Disneyland park security ran up to us and said that parking was free and we didn’t have to wait…right…we were waiting to pay for parking 😉

-NGU ASS

January 18, 2013

ANAL BEADS

Quick last minute meet because our friends, Low Ballers Japan, have arrived in America. We want to show them a good time tonight!

See you guys at M&M Donuts at 8:00PM.
Thursday, January 3rd, 2013.
1614 West Katella Avenue Anaheim, CA 92802

January 3, 2013

Living in Survival

Will we survive 12.21.12? Who knows? If we do, then this meet will be a party for all the survivors who made it through 2012. We will be having giveaways for cars that we think are cool, people who look cool, or just because we feel like it. We will also have Facebook freebies for all the homies who keep up to date with the site. Be sure to check back as we will be updating the details for the Facebook give away.

-NGU ASS

December 14, 2012

White & White

We were out in Las Vegas, Nevada for the end of the SEMA show at the Las Vegas Convention Center. After we were done with SEMA, we had some time to chill with our friends out there like usual and shoot the cars for a bit. It had been a while since I made a video and got my hands on a new crane, so it was a fun way to learn some new things while filming. Nevertheless, I especially liked this shoot because both these cars were running new setups; be it new wheels or new lip kits. Check out Minh Nguyen’s Lexus IS250 and Keith Cheng’s Honda Accord.

Royal Origin – White Power from Shavi Wijegunaratne on Vimeo.

I also had some time to take some pictures, something I rarely do, but have gotten into playing around with my photo skills these days.

Minh still rocking the Junction Produce Scara wheels, but now with a new lip kit. Looks mighty fine.

Keith recently got a much needed firmware update on his wheel setup; it’s been outdated since 2010. Now updated to Work VS-KF wheels.

PEACE BE WITH YOU.

-Shavi W.

December 7, 2012

After SEMA Meet.

We rolled out with the Vegas peeps to an after-Sema meet. Surprisingly saw a lot of people I knew, who stopped by the meet before heading home.

Fatlace crew brought out “aVanCalledQuest” and their Ben Sopra GTR.

Must be nice.

Clean S2K with a CR front lip and Work 11rs.

Ross Bawstemante’s clean S class.

My caravan buddy Keith.

NSX love.

Clean Evo.

Beau’s S13.

Anthony’s super clean Miata.

One of the cleanest VIP builds I’ve seen this year.

Fitted so nicely.

Another shot of John fob’s NSX.

Local Lexuses owned by Joe and Jeremy.

The tasty IS250.

Sloppy’s Fit.

Sunkist. Thanks for having us at your house!

Noel’s FRS.

The police had nothing better to do but to crash the meet and tell everyone we’re going to go to jail if we don’t leave.

Time for some cool gas station shots.

Pumpin’ that cheapass gas.

Goodnight Vegas, we’ll see you in the morning.

-NGU ASS

December 1, 2012

2012 Forumla Drift/Slammed Society: Irwindale

On Saturday, October 13th, a majority of the Royal Origin guys including myself attended the 2012 Formula Drift: Title Fight event at the Irwindale Speedway. This was the last FormulaD event of the year and a Formula Drift Champion would be crowned by the end of the day. Along with the main drifting event, Fatlace hosted the Slammed Society Showcase.

The Irwindale Speedway.

First time in a while that we rolled deep to a show.

The Royal Origin window cleaner position has finally been filled. Good work Bonnie!

BMW M5 on Leon Hardiritt Orden’s. Owned by Mark of Phase2.

I’m in love…

Kirk’s STi from RoyalFlush.

Nimo rockin’ some Work VS-KF’s and his newly painted matched flares.

Allen of Low n Slow.

…More like low and fast.

Sup girl, heard you like big tips.

Angelo displaying his new wheels at the showcase.

Beautifully slammed Accord.

Ken Block.

What’s a car show without models?

FormulaD media meeting.

It was pretty damn hot out there on the track. Luckily, they gave us free water to stay hydrated.

First time shooting on the track; it was an awesome experience.

The Champ, Daigo Saito.

Alex keeping me company at the track.

Awfilms working hard or hardly working? Hmmm.

Got some behind-the-scene coverage.

Badass little Z4.

Greddy FR-S.

The awards.

Time for some crew love.

Nimo’s IS300 scraping everywhere.

Alex’s E36.

Vu’s Miata on his new Work Meister CR01.

Keychain looking sexy with his VS-KF’s.

Angelo debuting his Volk.

Ryan’s GTI.

Minh’s revitalized IS250. Came out looking hard.

Gerald aka Rootbeer from Vegas.

Jimmy’s civic on brand new Rotiform TMB’s. Ballin’… Be sure to check out the rest of the photos in the gallery!

-VINH

November 11, 2012

See Ya Later…

The part I hate most about our out-of-state friends visiting us, is saying goodbye. All good things come to an end and even though we will for sure see them in the near future, it’s always sad when they leave. We started out the day with the obligatory all-you-can-eat Korean BBQ at Cham Sut Gol.