Years ago when I flew at a Rochester NY club, a fellow club member was struggling with a Ugly Stik. His landings were atrocious, and so he asked me to tell him why my landings were so much better. Well it might have something to do with the many tens of thousands of touch and go landings I had done, or the model he watched me fly had over 150 hours of flight time. Never the less, I flew his plane and quickly determined that it needed down thrust. A couple washers later he was amazed that he could make reasonable landings. I noticed that shortly after he started doing touch and go landings on a regular flight instead of avoiding a landing until the very end of each flight.