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Originally Posted by Frost
I highly do NOT recommend this. A lot of newbies think this is the mastery of stick shift and wind up toasting their clutches this way. No one is questioning your skills, just be safe, pull up the E-brake and launch properly.
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On most slopes though, once you have some practice starting out, you can usually just accelerate away from a stop without either toasting the hell out of your clutch or using the handbrake. It's not something you should explicitly practice a lot, since usually practicing it will wear your clutch, but once you get used to quickly and smoothly transitioning from the brake to the gas as you release the clutch on starts, hills don't really require any change in technique. The time it takes from getting off the brake to when you are rolling forward is too short to be rolling back much.
(It can take a while before you are comfortable enough to do this though, and as I said, I wouldn't go out and practice it a bunch. Just drive stick shift consistently, and eventually, it'll be completely natural to you. I've been driving almost exclusively stick shift for around 7 years now - I don't own a car with an auto, and eventually, it becomes second nature)