Originally Posted by HappyBandit
I personally prefer crabbing it into the wind until the last say 500ft...
hmmmm... to each their own. Personally I think such a technique over-complicates what is essentially a fairly simple manoeuvre and I wonder why you would fly a cross-controlled aircraft for so long? When faced with a x-wind touchdown, all I do is roll whatever into-wind aileron is necessary with whatever opposite boot is necessary to keep straight whilst pulling the aircraft into the flare. It all happens in the last few feet above the runway, having previously held whatever crab-angle was necessary on the approach to maintain runway centre-line tracking.
As
HB said
Damo1089, it is merely a matter of practice. The more you do the better you'll get until it is a matter of instinct requiring very little thought, and certainly no stress.