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Amanda Sorensen

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Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

You're getting your rear bumpers close to the wall and they call it like, you know, you ride the wall and you leave the paint mark on the white concrete barrier.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

Yeah, we go through a lot of taillights. Oh my gosh. A lot of bumpers. There's like definitely not like bumper budget is like another thing.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

Yeah, we go through a lot of taillights. Oh my gosh. A lot of bumpers. There's like definitely not like bumper budget is like another thing.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

Yeah, we go through a lot of taillights. Oh my gosh. A lot of bumpers. There's like definitely not like bumper budget is like another thing.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

Yeah, it's very like mind challenging, I would say. A lot of other drivers... I personally feel like I've driven in many different forms of motorsports and many different disciplines. So for me, drifting is honestly the hardest when it came to mental preparation. Wow.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

Yeah, it's very like mind challenging, I would say. A lot of other drivers... I personally feel like I've driven in many different forms of motorsports and many different disciplines. So for me, drifting is honestly the hardest when it came to mental preparation. Wow.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

Yeah, it's very like mind challenging, I would say. A lot of other drivers... I personally feel like I've driven in many different forms of motorsports and many different disciplines. So for me, drifting is honestly the hardest when it came to mental preparation. Wow.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

I figure skated for 10 years, and every single time I would practice my routine over and over and over again, at least one of my jumps or spins would not be how I wanted it to be during competition.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

I figure skated for 10 years, and every single time I would practice my routine over and over and over again, at least one of my jumps or spins would not be how I wanted it to be during competition.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

I figure skated for 10 years, and every single time I would practice my routine over and over and over again, at least one of my jumps or spins would not be how I wanted it to be during competition.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

So it's kind of similar to...

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

So it's kind of similar to...

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

So it's kind of similar to...

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

when i'm drifting it's like you can prepare as much as you possibly can but when you're actually like get up to the line the nerves are applied the pressure is applied that's when it really matters like yeah that's when the mental training can kind of really come into play i'm the same way in basketball with free throws i'll make 20 in a row and then the game starts i'll miss every single free throw yeah it's crazy how the sport can do that to you right

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

when i'm drifting it's like you can prepare as much as you possibly can but when you're actually like get up to the line the nerves are applied the pressure is applied that's when it really matters like yeah that's when the mental training can kind of really come into play i'm the same way in basketball with free throws i'll make 20 in a row and then the game starts i'll miss every single free throw yeah it's crazy how the sport can do that to you right

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

when i'm drifting it's like you can prepare as much as you possibly can but when you're actually like get up to the line the nerves are applied the pressure is applied that's when it really matters like yeah that's when the mental training can kind of really come into play i'm the same way in basketball with free throws i'll make 20 in a row and then the game starts i'll miss every single free throw yeah it's crazy how the sport can do that to you right

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

Well, and for me, it was crazy, too, just because, like, I had, like, I was able to see how, like, my younger childhood, like, sports that I played in really translated into, like, what I'm doing as a career now. And, like, with figure skating, like, it wasn't up until I was about maybe 14, 15, and I was at a drift competition, and it just clicked, like, one day, and I was like...

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

Well, and for me, it was crazy, too, just because, like, I had, like, I was able to see how, like, my younger childhood, like, sports that I played in really translated into, like, what I'm doing as a career now. And, like, with figure skating, like, it wasn't up until I was about maybe 14, 15, and I was at a drift competition, and it just clicked, like, one day, and I was like...

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

Well, and for me, it was crazy, too, just because, like, I had, like, I was able to see how, like, my younger childhood, like, sports that I played in really translated into, like, what I'm doing as a career now. And, like, with figure skating, like, it wasn't up until I was about maybe 14, 15, and I was at a drift competition, and it just clicked, like, one day, and I was like...

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

it's no different than a practice run like why am I getting so worked up about it you know um I found ways to actually calm my body down I love cold plunging and like when I first started cold plunging I used to be like freaking out you know like you get in the water and you're like this is so hard yeah but you kind of find a way to bring your heart rate down you know you focus on one thing you slow your breath down you slow your heart rate down like same concept when it comes to you know pulling up to the line or going out to skate in the competition