Quote Originally Posted by Jiro View Post
Uh he doesn't mean like that. At a certain level of revs, you can switch gears without using the clutch at all in a manual car. Or so I hear, I've never actually done/seen it.
This! Exactly this. I learned how to do it rather well a couple of years ago, I was rather proud of myself.

Basically you could just pop it out of gear hit the RPM required and pop it right back into the next gear without ever touching the clutch.