This week's video the one you're watching now will be on YouTube Next week's video will be on Patreon. Driving Stick is a creative exercise. Not the making up from scratch part of creative, but the exercise part of Creative Reps technique. The stick driver is in a constant state of refining his or her feel for operating the vehicle most beautifully.

Okay, slowly. take your foot off the clutch so it's starting to grab. Push it. you look really, really hard.

Yeah, so put let it all the way out slowly all the way out. Okay, now push the gas. It's gonna bounce. but that's okay.

Okay, give it more gas to stop the bouncing. Okay, now push the clutch in. So when this gets to 2500, you push the clutch in and pull this all the way down. All right.

and then, uh, that's just about it. You're not gonna go much faster than this on the beach. I Just want to transition. No, you never go back to first when you're rolling.

Okay, okay, I'll go back a second. Yep, why don't you ever go back to first when you're rolling? I don't know you can if you're rolling really slowly like two miles. I Just want to know how do I get 12 Like, what do I do if I want to turn around? Okay, so that's takes some clutch work. Okay then let's do that.

can I push the brake like Am I What's gonna happen? All right. So every time it's just like the motorcycle, every time you want to push the break or stop, you got to push the clutch in. Okay, don't stop on that soft sand. No, we're not going to.

I'm going to go on to this turnarounds right here. and I'm going to turn the car around when you're doing slow stuff. it's a clutch. Okay.

push the clutch in Coast Don't touch this thing okay and then manage the clutch and the gas. I mean I've now pushed the clutch in. We've stopped. Okay, so now you got to go into first.

Okay, and now let the clutch out a little. You gotta? You know? Also, you're driving cars so make sure you're not running over children and stuff. I Know that's why I went to this area because there's no one. All right.

So yeah, so there you go. and now when it gets to 2500 there, you can change gears. Okay when you feel it like it feels like it's revving High Yeah, it's cool. Okay, all right.

not bad, not bad. I Did I would say based on the way you're driving that you know how to drive sticks. this is the oh it could have been worse. Yeah.

I mean you're driving. Isn't this fun? I mean I Love driving at the beach. Watch out for that car. panics.

Pulling the truck in and smashed into these rocks and tore up the bumper vented to ship the clutch is the panic button. Just remember that if anything gets squirrely, smash that clutch to the floor. When in doubt, clutch neutral is that Wiggly place in the middle burst. Second, third, fourth, and fifth.

when do we shift when it feels right how much clutch? you just gotta feel it? No way to adequately put it into words and that's what pisses people off slash frightens them when you try to teach it. The spirited man loves driving stick because it's an exercise that refines not our thoughts, but our feel. Even a 35-year veteran of manual transmissions must acclimate his or her body and muscles to each new gearbox and clutch through input into and feedback from the vehicle's Behavior Sort of like developing a technique for sculpture or repair. Thank you sorry for yelling at you Isabel The truck is half yours after all and you'd only been driving stick for 30 minutes or so.

The bumper cost us only a hundred bucks to get fixed and it was fun and beautiful. On this week's Patreon only video while I was in. Mexico I Watched two documentaries that had such an effect on me. One of the documentaries was about a tennis player.

One of the documentaries was about a writer. The writer and the tennis player embody the two voices that fight inside my head.