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When teaching beginners, I used this excercise as a preliminary "class" in teaching how to handle a clutch and it seems to work well...this is even before starting to drive around:
- go to a nice large, open, empty parking lot or side road
- have the trainee put the trans into 1st gear
- for this excercise we will not even be shifting out of 1st
- have the trainee slowly let up on the clutch pedal, as slowly as possible
- teach them to get a feel for where the clutch starts to engage
- there will be multiple failed attempts resulting in the engine stalling, but keep trying
- next try to start moving the car without even giving it any gas pedal, only by releasing the clutch at idle
I think this teaches a good feel for how the clutch engages and then you can eventually move on to slowly adding in some throttle to get moving normally.
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