Teaching someone to drive a manual

[Overdrive]

Usually the first thing I have them do is just lift right up off the clutch and stall the car so they know what that feels like, and understand that if they start to feel that sensation that they need to depress the clutch to keep from stalling.

I happened to find a parking lot of a place that had recently closed down at the time that the car was bought, and part of the lot had a very gentle slope to it, so I started her off pointed down the slope so the clutch would very easily engage, then turned her around so she could practice a (very) gentle hill start.