I wasn't taught rudder for a very long time. After I started with a new instructor for advanced flying. I found out later my instructor wasn't very good with the rudder so it wasn't taught. Every time I asked about it I was told not to worry about it yet. Now I can't fly without using the rudder and I don't even know I'm doing it. Not all planes are prone to weather veining. Friday I was flying a small pattern plane and a 2 meter pattern plane in a very heavy cross wind. I pretty much didn't use or need to use the rudder at all. This was the first time I have gotten to fly these two planes in a heavy cross wind, I was very pleased. High wing planes I had to learn to drop the wing and add rudder. It took some time but I got it figured out. When I learned I was flying at a field that was almost always a cross wind.
I could have loaded up and gone home but I knew I was going to fly that field and others with cross wind so I decided to learn. You don't need to really land to learn, you can shoot the approach over and over until the inputs sink into your head, let your instructor do the landing until you figure it out.