The “don’t touch the gas” thing is mostly just a learning exercise for people brand-new to driving stick to get a feel for where their clutch bites and how it slips, it’s not the way to start a car rolling, certainly not on hills. Though anecdotally, I’ve driven at least a dozen manual transmission cars and trucks and only one lacked the torque to start and roll just idling - because we found out later that its timing jumped a tooth. So this line
None of this "wait till the cars starts rolling and then you have a quarter of a milisecond to add gas before it dies on you.
makes me suspect that there’s something up with your car? Even if it can’t start from idle, any car should be able roll in idle
The “don’t touch the gas” thing is mostly just a learning exercise for people brand-new to driving stick to get a feel for where their clutch bites and how it slips, it’s not the way to start a car rolling, certainly not on hills. Though anecdotally, I’ve driven at least a dozen manual transmission cars and trucks and only one lacked the torque to start and roll just idling - because we found out later that its timing jumped a tooth. So this line
makes me suspect that there’s something up with your car? Even if it can’t start from idle, any car should be able roll in idle