My initial instructor said when flying our tail dragger Aeronca champ to parallel the runway center line with rudders and use the ailerons to control drift. It worked perfectly through 23,000hrs from biplanes to B 767's. Landing on the upwind wheel with tires lined up with centerline works every time. It worked on 80 different aircraft and is so easy to do. Keep things simple and don't listen to some pilot just because he has more hours than you. I didn't. Airplanes don't like landing in a crab so do my simple procedure. It works every time.
GSS, your instructor is making you into a robot, not a real pilot. Please let him let you land using piloting skills as we were taught decades ago. They work much better. You can do it. Maybe he will learn something from you. Just tell him you want to try something different.
Everybody should learn to fly in a tail wheel airplane just to know how to land properly without ground looping. Then carry it on.