[RC-Monster Mike]

Do you have a brake exponential on your radio? If you maximize this etting, you should get better brakes as well. Godd batteries should help a bit, too. Serum also gave good advise on the switch. Mount the switch to the receiver leads, not the batteries. You would need a parallel y adapter to mount the receiver pack and controller on the same switch (just plug the controller lead and receiver pack lead to the switch and plug the switch into the channel 2 of the receiver. then, when you turn on the switch, the receiver has power. I can put a y adapter in your package if you would like.