How was your experience being coached by him ? Was under the impression he didn ' t speak English , do you speak Russian ? <| sep |> I personally feel like it ' s difficult , but I ' ve got it mastered after two years . I think if your clutch behaves like mine and I ' ve had two STs that felt identical , the issue is you aren ' t giving it enough revs . There is a numbness right in the sweet spot that feels like resistance , but really isn ' t . Try being a little more aggressive on the gas it takes a lot of practice and feel I generally would say it feels and sounds like I ' m revving too high , but in terms of a smooth launch it ' s the only method . Most people have trouble with the 12 , because of the rev hold . You need to wait a beat to let it into 2 nd unless you want to use the sleeve to accelerate which causes the forward jerk and isn ' t good for the tranny . Sounds like you don ' t have any trouble here though . One more thing I can say is that on flat ground , it ' s a very direct relationship between clutch and gas pedal positions as you ' re dropping the clutch , you need to be adding revs at the same rate , and when you ' re fully in gear , the revs will fly up and make a lot of noise and fury , but the launch itself will be butteryEdit rereading what I wrote , I ' m still not sure I ' ve really captured the essence of the problem . I drove home today and thought about it more and think it might be that I ' m simply letting the clutch out more slowly but critically , I ' m only comfortable doing that with a significant and well timed increase in revs . There ' s a subtle difference that probably will only come with practice