I have over 20 000 landings under my belt and ..... the other day I raped the runway.
Yup, me too! I brought my wife an daughter back from a visit with friends, and bounced the taildragger much more than I'm willing to accept. I apologized to my wife and daughter for the poor landing. My daughter replied: "It's okay daddy, it wasn't your fault!". "Yes it was" I replied, "That was a horrible landing! I should go and do it again!". She giggled....
As MJ says, experience just stretches out the ratio of good to poor landings, it will never entirely prevent poor landings.
With the rather broad agreement here as to the characteristics of a good flare entry, particularly getting the approach speed correct (slower!), students who are a little frustrated with their progress have some good advice, but better, they have some basis upon which to ask their instructors why faster approach speeds are being taught?
Altitude and speed are both energy. For a tricycle aircraft to land, it must be exhausted of energy, so it settles on. Any other technique will have a somewhat violent outcome. When you cross the threshold, the energy sum of your airspeed and altitude is what you must get rid of, before you can land. So if you're carrying extra speed, and/or altitude, the ONLY effect of that will be to displace your touchdown point down the runway, while you get rid of the energy.
The use of flaps and slipping are two good ways to get rid of excess energy, but proper glidepath and speed control on short final are better. Think of those cool sci fi movies where the spacecraft is maneuvering for approach through the acid cloud of the distant planet, and the computer is constantly drawing rectangles through which the pilot is to fly.... Imagine those triangles are being drawn for you, on the heads up display in your 152... Now imagine that in the top left corner of each triangle there is also a target speed, and in each triangle down the short final approach that speed is reducing by 1 knots, so as to be about 1.2 Vs just as you cross the threshold with the wheels a few feet up.
Flying a faster approach, "add five for the wife and kids" seems to reassure some pilots, and on a bumpy day, yes, it can make control a little easier. But plan to get rid of it very short final. If this means slowing on short final, that's okay.