Manual tips

So I'm getting my first manual car soon, what are some tips?

Is blipping a meme or should you do it on every downshift?

>what are some tips?

git gud

>is blipping a meme

no, it's not, do it every downshift ever

Just drive the fucking car

Blipping's a meme in ordinary road driving. If you need to do it, then you're probably doing something stupid like downshifting from fifth to second at highway speed.
I suggest that you go to an empty parking lot and practice launching the car without stalling. If you've got any hilly backroads around where you live, then learning to launch on uphill and downhill slopes would be a good idea too: apply more or less (if any) gas, respectively, and keep the handbrake on right until you let the clutch start to bite.

You don’t have to blip the downshift unless you’re looking to carry speed through a corner, otherwise you should be braking properly and downshifting when your downshifted gear speed matches the road speed, ie. when coming to a stop/slowing to a different speed zone

for the sake of your clutch, ideally you'd want to rev match every gear, going up or down. it's more difficult to rev match downshifts, especially while braking, and even more so under very light braking like when you're putting around town, without lurching the car. A lot of people ignore rev matching downshifts, and most people don't heel toe. It's hard and can take a while to learn, but it's a skill that's worth it to have

I can heel toe on my g29 in ass corsa, will that transfer at all to a real car?

>for the sake of your clutch

Why do you guys always act like clutches last 10k miles of you don't rev match?
No road car transmission, clutch or flywheel has been designed with rev matching in mind since decades, they are perfectly capable of taking the "abuse" of shifting without a single rev match ever and yet their lifetime is in the hundreds of thousands of miles on most cases.

You know what's the single, most abusive thing you can do everyday to your clutch? Moving from a standstill, that's what makes a real difference in a clutch's lifespan and unfortunately there is no technique to avoid it.

Yes, rev matching is fun, yes it technically saves the tiniest, immeasurable bit of wear on the clutch, but don't act like clutches destroy themselves if you don't do it, because it's simply not true, rev matching hasn't been a necessary technique for a long while.

There's two options in my eyes, either you never blip downshifts, cause unnecessary wear to the clutch, however little it may be, and have your passengers hate you, or you can just learn to drive properly.

You're stupid.
That's nonsense.
>Hurr durr I wait until my engine speed is at idle, then clutch in, shift down a gear, slow down, then engauge the gear!

No, literally nothing in asco translates to real driving.