Hi All,
Coming from the gliding world to power I have never found stalling, spinning or slow flight anything but normal. True, it is easy to recover far quicker in a relatively benign glider, but scratching for lift at high bank angles and nibbleing the stall really does teach "feel". Often, and this applies to power also, a firm quick push will get a wing to "bite" again with virtually no loss of height. Even with huge glider wings, rudder wasn't used at the incipent stage and the exercise was simply to recover by elevator then use co-ordinated rudder and aileron once unstalled. As has been pointed out rudder is used to counter excess yaw only as too much could easily flick you into a spin in the opposite direction. In a fully developed spin, full opposite rudder is probably only applied for a split second to speed yaw correction before it is eased off, but this becomes too instinctive to easily analysis.
Very slow flight, especially at or just into a stalled condition is often not taught at all. As I'm not an instructor I don't know what the patter is or whether it is actually required to be taught. In my experience it seems to be glossed over in the power flying world, which is a great shame. Some instructors seem to think that the only way to teach a pupil about stalling is to plough straight into a fully developed one straight away and forget that what seems gentle to them is often traumatising to a pupil. Stalls, and IMHO spinning should hold no fear and correct recovery should be instinctive not something to require thought at the time. The only way to achieve this is to allay any fear and discomfort, and the only way to achieve that is sympathetic instruction and practice.
IM