Drift Boost
Once a player has mastered the drift, this is the next logical progression. A Drift Boost is a drift... with a boost. Despite being one of the worst explanations in history, that was actually quite accurate. A drift is a turn where you start sliding early and then proceed to drive in the new direction without losing speed. A Drift Boost allows you to start sliding early and drive in the new direction with a "boost" of speed. Once again you're gaining speed at a further loss of control, but experienced players will be able to compensate quite easily. Performing the Drift Boost is no a difficult task:A Drift Boost is performed by tapping left, right, left, right repeatedly over and over again while drifting. You might that it would be impossible to control while doing this, but the actual taps of each direction are so minute that it doesn't really affect your directional movement all that much. Of course the faster you are able to do it the better, since it's pretty hard to maneuver the actual turn without holding down one direction on the D-Pad. The best way to do it is to simply jam your thumb in the middle of the D-Pad and rock it back and forth. You can tell if you're doing it correctly by watching the sparks on the wheels of your car. They'll start by flashing blue, at that point you're half way done. When they flash red you're ready to boost. Upon finishing the drift and letting go of the R trigger you'll get a burst of speed in the direction that you're facing. It's pretty handy. Technically the next logical progression of this technique is snaking, but whether that was an intentional progression by the game designers is as arguable a topic as it was in F-Zero GX. It's honestly up to you.
