Rich, Thanks for the feedback.
Responding to your comments:
1. Yep, you got me on that one. Of course you can stall with the nose pointed down. You can stall at any airspeed. You can stall with the nose pointed up, down and in a 90 degree bank. You can stall inverted at the top of a loop and the stall breaks upward. You can cause an accelerated stall with the nose pointed straight down by pulling too hard.
My comment that it is hard to stall with the nose pointed down was not necessary to make the point anyway, I should have left it out. But you won't spin without a stall however likely or unlikely it is in the descending phase of flight. It was hoped that this would be reassuring to the OP.
Slips and spins are a different matter.
2. Slips and skids, as the terms are usually used in practice, have quite different meanings. Limiting the discussion to the risk of spinning, Boldmethod does a good job with the subject, as usual: "
Why Skids Are More Dangerous Than Slips"
https://www.boldmethod.com/learn-to-fly ... kid-stall/
Regardless, I still maintain that the risk of a spin from a slipping with full flaps is small.