From darocks first novel
"If you see the airplane's nose coming up and it shouldn't be coming up, you need to move the sticks whatever way keeps that nose from coming up. And that happens if YOU are flying the airplane upwind, downwind, on approach, in a loop, in a turn or taking off or landing.

You don't take 2 or 3 seconds to react to the nose coming up. You simply put it back down where it should be, where you wanted it to be.
Learn to react to the airplane. And that won't take 2 or 3 seconds. Trying to remember the checklist's instructions for the specific situation will. "

It can't take you 2-3 seconds to react, you simply may not have that much time usually before you either hit the ground or pull the wings off. And it all changes if inverted or near trees or ANYTHING else unusual happens. Slow the plane down until your brain flies as fast as the plane.

In full scale we used to watch planes land poorly and then look out off the end of the runway. When asked what we were doing we'd reply "We're waiting for the pilot to land because he sure was behind the plane on that landing".