Got 1 hour 45 of practice in tonight. Once I was done with the cone work I used a dead end road to practice my shifting. Got pretty smooth at up shifting and better at down shifting. I think they key for the down shift is rolling on the throttle to get the revs up and the releasing the clutch very slow. I even tried 4th gear for the first time which gave me an extra gear shift down from.
The road is a narrow with 2 lanes and I stalled it twice when trying to do a tight u-turn. I must have missed a down shift on the first one because it went into neutral from what must have been 2nd. The other one stalled mid u-turn and maybe I just let the revs get too low? The road will be a good one for me to master as I think it will take a full lock turn to do a 180. I was able to do it with a foot down but not without yet.