I think what might be messing me up a little is (and I discussed this in a thread several weeks back) that there is a lot of resistance on the rudder pedals due to my CFI resting his feet there, and also sometimes he might be putting in a rudder input which might not be exactly what I was going to put in and it's like too many cooks in the kitchen. It may be that the only way I truly learn crosswind landings (maximum of 12 knots according to the Cessna 152 engineers/test pilots by the way) is to do them solo so I have full authority over the aircraft. When I did my first solo on Sunday, I noticed that the rudder was a LOT easier to manipulate without a set of feet riding on the right seat pedals.