MAKG1
Touchdown! Greaser!
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Maybe so.
I didn't have trouble finding one -- in fact, he imposed it on me when I overreacted to a dipped wing, for which I'm eternally grateful. IMO, that was the single most important 15 minutes of my training (that and early go-around training that I insisted on, even before I had ever tried a landing). It was entirely unplanned, aside from the stalls that led to it.
But that I found it (by accident) doesn't mean everyone else will.
He wasn't a particularly old pilot, just rather experienced for his age. He was a part time charter pilot with a very young kid, at least 10 years younger than me (probably closer to 20). He also wasn't my regular instructor (his schedule is much too irregular for that). She was sick.
The key is controlling roll while stalled. If calling it that rather than "falling leaf" works, so be it. I can't emphasize enough how useful that is, even if you never encounter an unintentional dipped wing. It turns stall practice from sweating bullets into a fun activity. Seriously.