How To Drive A Manual Transmission + Rev Match + Heel Toe Downshift (POV Tutorial)

I've taught a few people how to drive a manual transmission but this video may have a much broader impact! The beginning gets the newbies started and we move into Rev Matching downshifts and Heel Toe downshifts for those of you who want to hone your skills.

Holy snaps. My 18 year old wants to take over my 2006 Evo and said he learned how to drive stick from youtube. I handed him the keys, and turns out he was not lying. He showed me the video he watched here, and I wanted to say that you did great with this video! Well done.

Tedward is like the dad we wish we had in the car community 🥺

Who else is learning on the bed ? 😂

I'm 23, barely know anything about manual transmissions, and my dad is the original owner of a 1988 Mustang LX that he's dropped money into modifying. Attempting to learn how to drive it for when it's eventually passed down to me and this is by far the most helpful tutorial I've watched so far.

I totally agree with you, rev matching is an almost necessary skill for driving a manual, but they dont teach you in driving schools, even here in europe where you learn to drive in manuals. Even my dad doesnt rev match, despite having been driving for 35+ years, ive only learned about it through my own research online

The trick that always makes it click in people’s heads when I teach them is this: when the car starts rolling, most people’s reactions are “yay! I did it!” and just completely let off the clutch at that point, causing the car to either stall or lurch forward. Instead, once the car starts rolling, you have to go even slower in releasing the clutch. The period after the biting point is the most important part of getting started.

I bought my first manual transmission car with nothing but videos like these as my knowledge base. The first couple days were rough but in about a week I became very confident with shifting gears. I’ve now been driving a stick for a little over a year and am very proud to have picked up this skill.

to all the newbies who are thinking this is too much and you can never drive, i used to think the same but now my brain does this automatically. you just need to practice daily.

As someone who has never even been behind the wheel of a manual transmission car, this was extremely easy to understand and follow along. The multiple camera POVs really helps. Having been spoiled with a life of automatic transmissions, driving a manual seems a bit complicated and frustrating, but then I think about some of the types of people I know or have seen driving manuals 😅 Then I realize if they can freakin do it I could definitely do it😂

I learned how to drive a manual car in 2017. I didn't have a clue how to drive one before then, but I wanted to have a basic understanding about how the process worked before test driving my first manual car purchase. I found a guy in my area on craigslist who was offering manual driving lessons. While he did teach me the basics, the thing I remember the most was practically crying throughout the lesson from the amount he was yelling at me for "ruining his car". It wasn't like I was mashing gears on purpose or anything, just a little grinding that you'd expect from a beginner. And don't get me started on the yelling from rolling back a little on hill starts. All in all, he DID teach me how to drive a manual car, but not without traumatizing me in the process. I wish you were my teacher!

I asked my Dad to teach me how to drive a manual, I knew the basics already but his teaching really helped me a lot to properly learn. It was really an excuse to spend more time with him though.

I’ve been driving stick for about 8 years and was doing everything correctly except for matching the downshifts. This was very detailed and just flowed well. I’m looking forward to improving my technique

I learned on a Yugo. After that nothing has been a problem.

PSA: When practicing heel-toe for the first times, make sure there's no car behind you! Modern cars have pretty sensitive brake pedals, and you can quite easily brake-check someone by accident when rotating your foot to reach the throttle

I'm literally 15 watching this and I can't believe It was this simple all along, It used to feel so overwhelming especially when i'd ask my family how do u speed up, what do those gears mean, what is the clutch and what does it do etc.., It now all makes sense thanks to you and I feel like i understood so well That I feel i can go grab my mom's car's keys and drive myself to the gym. Thank you so much man !

I won't lie this actually made me driving a manual less stressful. Thanks my man. 💯😎

Something very important that you forgot to mention on the video that some people may not know and cause an accident: If you were to start moving on a uphill, specially with older cars because they dont have hill start assistance, if you release the brakes to press the accelerator your car is going to roll back, so to prevent this you can use your handbrake (also known as E-brake, emergency brake, parking brake or whatever, its a lot of names) to hold the car still, then you release a bit of your clutch with the car engaged in first until it starts bitting, apply a bit of gas and then you release your parking brake, if you do it right (practice on a safe environment first plz) you will not roll back. Another way to do it (but you need to have more experience first) is learning to hold the car only with the clutch (BE AWARE that doing this for longer than necessary will worn your cluch much faster than expected, so as i said before, practice it on a safe environment), to do it you first (with your right foot on the brake) release the clutch slowly until it starts bitting (you will feel the car shake), then you can slowly release your brake, after that you can apply more gas and fully release the clutch, done right your car will not roll back (you know the drill, practice, safe environment) More experienced people can correct me if im wrong on anything or give your own suggestions (there is more advanced techniques like heel toe but i dont think thats necessary) please correct me or share it

Nothing beats the feeling of a perfect rev match downshift into a curve!

You’re a great teacher. Patient, takes it slow, and explains it simply