it's because I tended to let the nose come up on the initial entry into the slip on final, when I was already at the speed I wanted to hold on final. I'd let the nose come up and not address it quick enough and the speed would decay rather fast. The Cheetah is pretty quick to decay the airspeed if you let it. Plus, it wasn't something I was consciously doing, rather something that was 'happening' and making more work for me to sort out.

Yesterday we played a lot with adjusting our speed going down in the slip by raising/lowering the nose. So every movement has its place and time. Yesterday I moved a long way to fixing the bad habit for good. Now I'll pull the nose when I want to. not just because I'm sloppy.