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Tcoat · 05-25-2018, 09:59 PM

Two things I see done wrong all the time with new MT drivers.

Don't grasp the shift knob with a death grip. Push it away or pull it with the palm of your hand or just your fingers. When you grab it Fast and Furious style your body is fighting the gates giving you delayed and jerky shifts.

Stop thinking about the clutch and shift as separate stages it is all one action with things happening at once. It is not clutch in. Shift lever. Clutch out. It is clutchinshiftleverclutchout. You should already be moving the shift lever as you are pushing in the clutch and just finishing the shift as you clutch out again. I do not mean this action has to be fast but it should all be going on at the same time not as different steps. Understand what I am trying to say?
God I hate trying to explain this in print. Could show you in about 5 seconds.

05-25-2018, 09:59 PM	#6
Tcoat Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2014 Drives: 2020 Hakone Location: London, Ont Posts: 69,845 Thanks: 61,656 Thanked 108,286 Times in 46,456 Posts Mentioned: 2497 Post(s) Tagged: 50 Thread(s)	Two things I see done wrong all the time with new MT drivers. Don't grasp the shift knob with a death grip. Push it away or pull it with the palm of your hand or just your fingers. When you grab it Fast and Furious style your body is fighting the gates giving you delayed and jerky shifts. Stop thinking about the clutch and shift as separate stages it is all one action with things happening at once. It is not clutch in. Shift lever. Clutch out. It is clutchinshiftleverclutchout. You should already be moving the shift lever as you are pushing in the clutch and just finishing the shift as you clutch out again. I do not mean this action has to be fast but it should all be going on at the same time not as different steps. Understand what I am trying to say? God I hate trying to explain this in print. Could show you in about 5 seconds. __________________ Racecar spelled backwards is Racecar, because Racecar.