Quote Originally Posted by DieselNuts
Yeah, I did read it, and if you are any good at driving a stick at all, you don't need your parking break nor will you burn your clutch when starting from on a hill. All it takes is a quick transfer from brake to throttle and knowing where your clutch releases.
If you're on a significant hill (Not just a small hill, but an actual steep incline, think something you'd have to trudge up not just walk easily) no matter what you want to claim about your clutch and engine, a simple transfer with the clutch at engagement point will cause you to roll back and going from dead-idle to trying to climb that hill will burn your clutch, or cause you to stall. You can avoid that by revving the engine without taking your foot off the brake as you disengage the clutch, then just pick up your foot and you'll get a no-roll, no-spin, no-slip start up the hill.

Believe it or not, driving techniques can have multiple uses. You can use the same technique to do a higher RPM launch than idle on a hill without rolling before you release the clutch. Which I guess you could use for street-racing when the road isn't flat like a racetrack. Regardless, assuming that being able to control the brake and the gas with one foot can only be used for downshifting is sortof close-minded, isn't it?