Heel Toe Issue

[SlimKlim]

I think you're better off learning the toe-toe method. I've never seen anyone actually heel-toe, I do it like scotty as well.

I brake with the ball of my big toe covering the right side of the brake pedal, so the right half of my foot is hovering over the gas pedal. When I clutch in I rotate my ankle so the right part of my foot slaps the throttle. If you look at my pedals you can see where I've actually worn a shiny spot in the right side of the brake pedal from doing it so much.

Doing it this way you aren't trying to move your whole leg around while covering the brake pedal. You learn to always brake with your foot in a position to rev match, and then it just takes a flick of the wrist (ankle in this case) to execute it. The trick is practicing it enough so that you maintain even pressure on the brake pedal while you do that little maneuver, when i first started figuring it out I'd always jab on the brakes way too hard.

A lot of cars are not designed to be heel-toe'd easily, I'd say most actually. Miatas really need a gas pedal extension to do it easily, Jake's FoST was turrible, the throttle pedal was set back in it's own little hole. The BMWs pedals are really close together so it makes it easy to do. Still, no car I've driven is as easy to rev match as my VW.