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Originally Posted by nyfries
Like the OP, this is a my first manual car. I have had experience driving frd's manual corolla, fits and what not but never as a day to day car.
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I will work on that though. I barely stall now, the only time when I still come close to stalling now is while in the parking lot cruising really slow in 1st gear or while parking backwards. I can't shake the feeling that if i do not give a little gas before i start releasing the clutch it will stall
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To sum up, it is not hard to drive a manual car fast. Once you pass the 1st and 2nd gears, the up shifting is better and smooth because the speed difference between the flywheel and input shaft is less and thus smooth shift.
It is, however, hard to drive a manual car *slowly*: i.e. stop-n-go traffic, parking lot cruising and backing or parking. To get the car go like it is an automatic in these situation requires proper control on the clutch, and not necessary on the gas. In these situations, clutch footwork is more important than gas footwork. Once you master the clutch control to move the car *without* gas, you have graduated to a new level of manual car driving.
Lastly, let me quote Sir Jackie Stewart in one of the Top Gear episode when he was teaching James May about race car control: don't press the gas pedal unless you know you will not lift off later.