Hey y'all, just got back from my first time really practicing. A fun hour over and over a woodsy loop, speed about 25-40, lots of 2-3 & 3-2 shifts.
2-3 is getting better all around - the feet are getting more automatic with their simple jobs, and I'm negotiating the kink in the shift more smoothly and naturally.3-2 (with the single-clutch rev-matching) was not pretty at all in the beginning, a lot of fumbling around. But it was making some progress by the second half-hour. The small handful of times I got the basic synchronization of steps along with the right amount of blip were pretty satisfying. My blips are pretty rough and will take practice to tune them. But it looks like a little too much is better than too little, if you're going to be off.
Wondering a couple things:
I don't think I've found it necessary to do the 2-1 downshift at speed on the street. In what kind of situation would it come up? Maybe before a slow, tight turn in auto-cross? Unlike the other downshifts, this one takes a huge blip to match revs, doesn't it - if I figured it right you're basically doubling what you had in 2nd.
Is rev-matching upshifts ever an issue? I guess the natural drop in revs during the shift is often good enough, but there would be some discrepancy in a 1-2 shift near redline.