First time shifting 10 speed

Went on my first two road rides in school this past weekend. I love it to say the least.

My shifting however, was pretty rough, to be expected as it was first time driving a manual transmission of any sorts.

Anyways, I grinded quiet a few gears, and clutches to neutral, tried to get it into 4th but didn’t push the shifter far enough so it didn’t go into gear and I stalled it out. The instructor laughed and said it happens to everyone on their first few rides. Well I ended up doing good upshifting, and I was flipping through the gears pretty good. I would say “1-2” in my head pretty quickly every time I was shifting.

My downshifting was atrocious to begin with. Sometimes I would forget to rev it and when I did rev it, I would underrev or go quiet a bit over 1500rpm. Already started getting better at that by the end of the ride.

One of my issues though is revving on the upshift and not revving on the downshift lol

And there were two times coming up to a red light and I’m down shifting and then bam, light turns green and I got flustered and didn’t know what to do lol so I would speed up without upshifting lol

Anyways just wanted to give a little input on how my first two rides went. I love driving tractor trailers and I don’t want to drive an automatic truck lol

 

Oh believe me I used profanity plenty of times, out loud lol. Instructor just laughed.

Getting the rpm right on the downshift was the toughest part for me. As I said, I kept under revving or over revving lol

I appreciate you input.

 

One thing I didn’t do was a neutral stop so I was pretty happy about that.

 

He was saying the part of my issue was when I got the rpms in the correct range, I wasn’t hitting the shifter quick enough. Which made sense to me.

 

Yeah will fail the road test if I float lol