I remember in San Francisco it was standard practice to pull that parking brake at the top of a hill and hope to gawd the car behind you wasn't sitting on your ass.
How about rolling forward?
I learned to drive my manual about 10 years now and I'm great going uphill from a stop, but good lord was I terrified when I parallel parked facing **downhill** and came back to find some idiot had parked an inch from my front bumper.
My car has to have me briefly release + reapply the clutch **before** I can shift to reverse, so this was deeply, deeply unenjoyable. Terror / endorphins helped. 😂
Spend some time knowing the coupling point and it wont be a problem. Or get a car with hill-holder. Mine has it, and it works well, but Im so used to control the coupling that it took a year before I noticed.
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I learned to drive my manual about 10 years now and I'm great going uphill from a stop, but good lord was I terrified when I parallel parked facing **downhill** and came back to find some idiot had parked an inch from my front bumper.