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Yes, it can be bad. Refer back to syncros and their purpose. They are there to provide sliding friction between the input and output sections of the transmission to match speeds before engaging gears. If you accelerate to redline in third gear and step on the clutch sure, you can let the engine RPM drop. While you're still in third gear, how fast is the input side still spinning? (rhetorical) Then you skip fourth and fifth gear syncros and grab a handful of sixth. That's a shitload of heat being dumped straight into one little syncro. Better to rake through fourth and fifth with the clutch still disengaged. Or, pause in neutral to give the input side time to spool down. It will take longer than you think but if you get it right you will feel the target gear drop right in.
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So when you say accelerate you go 1,2,3 and then clutch hold shift into 4, then 5, then 6 then release clutch?
I guess I forgot that RPMs are only relatively accurately representing driveline speed if you are incrementally shifting through all the gears. If you're going 70mph and depress clutch it would still probably only take a few seconds to drop to engine idle on rpm gauge but things are turning much faster and thats not the best indicator.