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Originally Posted by DAEMANO
Take him for more drives together. Talk about techniques YOU learned to improve your shifting. Don't ever talk about how HE shifts. Just talk about the techniques you use. Talk about your failings and lessons learned. He will either open up about his shifting or improve from what you talked about learning. Don't get into a fight or a bad trust situation over a clutch. It's just a car. Your relationship is more important.
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This is excellent advise. You're indirectly letting your Dad know how to improve his driving techniques, so this avoids putting him on the defensive or being insulted.
Then for anything you observed your Dad specifically doing wrong (from the dashcam), point that out via saying YOU used to drive like that, but that you learned it was better to do it this other way. Again, the only fingers anyone could perceive as being pointed here is at yourself, and your pops might even nod and acknowledge that he knows what you mean.
Bottom line though, and as DAEMANO said...It's a clutch, he's your Dad. Clutches/cars are replaceable.
Good luck!