Class 3 - I managed to centre the clay on the Wheel

Yesterday was the third session of my pottery lessons, it'll be unfair to call to them lessons as it more up to the individual to pratice and learn.
I attempted the wheel again, failed to centre the peice of clay:
By the before you go to the wheel here are the steps
1) cut a peice of soft clay
2) Make into a ball, kneed it, and again smooth it into a ball. A fine and smooth ball. (This is important for a consistent pot)
3) Now throw this ball on the centre of potters wheel
4) Put on the wheel and let it rotate
5) Wet your hands and try to centre it - basic and most important step to make a pot.
6) To centre it - keep your hands firm, don't let the clay push them. The clay is not centred until you feel its pushing your hand.

Once it is centred, you are ready to shape it.

Anyway, for me the centring did not come so easily. I asked the instructor help me again. HE centred it and I started to shape the clay only to change it into something we'll like call as distorted figure.

The next trial was the moment of satisfaction when I could centre the clay my self but again I shaped it into something abstract which does not look like a pot from any angel.