Well, I just had my first serious aerobatics lesson yesterday and I can tell you - right rudder still require concious thought.
Don't dread stalls. For your PPL you only need to be able to recognise them in a few likely scenarios, and show the correct recovery when a straight and level stall happens. When an instructor wants me to demo a full stall, I know he mostly wants to see that I detected the stall and corrected accordingly. So I conciously say outloud the stall signs as I recognise them:
- Stall warner
- Yoke in my stomach (against the chest in a Cessna)
- Buffet
- Aircraft "seeking" its direction, correcting with rudder
- Stall, possibly with wingdrop
- Correct by unloading the elevator, add power
If you know what's coming, it's indeed a non-event.
Also, you need to remember that at the end of the day, a stall is not something you need to *do*, but need to *avoid*. In a normal flight from A to B, the only time you may expect the stall warner to go off is right at the end of the holdoff, just before your wheels kiss the tarmac.