Pitts, the "Luck" response was in response to this question:
how is it that the aircraft is used by new/novice/inexperienced aerobatic pilots without incident?
This implies inadequate practice.
rotorfossil, I don't know if it's in the civilian Firefly flight manual but the USAF had a T-3A "Spin Prevent" procedure which did exactly as you said. We would do a normal spin entry (idle, nose up, full rudder) and when the spin began we would unload with forward stick and apply opposite spin rudder and stop the spin in less than one turn. If that didn't work we were to transition to the full up "Spin Recovery" procedure. It was extremely rare for the spin prevent procedure to not work--it never happened to me and I did hundreds of them.