Mick wrote:
I don't know about you guys, but I just used to bounce through second on my way to first on my 3 synchro box.
ie. back from 3rd to second (only enough to feel resistance, not actually engage second) and up to first. All done in a smooth motion. It's pretty easy.
The synchro on second would do the work of matching the gear speeds.
I was taught to do that and tried it, but I picked up heal and toe more easily...

Couldn't consistently find that sweet spot on 2nd's synchro.

And it wears your 2nd gear synchro more, which is already the hardest working synchro.

Plus, heal and toe double de-clutch downshifting sounds more impressive to say, and sounds more impressive when you're driving!

Yeah, heel-and-toe all the way, bouncing through second was just an easy way to deal with a non-synchro first when you didn't want to sound like you were showing off.