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@Stan Galat posted:

We always started in an empty parking lot, and every time the "learner" was 100% frustrated about a half hour in. The key for teaching them was to just keep encouraging them-- to let them know that they would get it, and that everybody who's ever done this has done the herky-jerky/stall-the-car thing 100 times before they got it.

The secret it to lie to them? disapp

My daughter stalled a total of maybe 10X over three lessons. She wasn't frustrated and knew it's part of the process in understanding each individual clutch. She did understand general stick fundamentals from watching me/asking questions and being on my motorcycle many times.

Once she was generally competent and released on her own, she could take her car to work in town as an PSW.

I knew she was fine when she'd come home every now and again for a week and be so mad "grrrr, I stalled once and this guy behind me gave me the horm!" She was aces in a week but maybe she's a child prodigy....

8/31/2010:56 AM

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