Stick and rudder skills have nothing to do with what you have been doing (flying or not) in the past ten years and everything to do with what you did on your first ten....., the formation of your skills is done at the beginning of your career.
Having been envolved in training and evaluating pilots most of my career I've seen examples of this over and over again....., if a person has tons of experience handflying and very little to no automation in his or her formative first years....., even if they haven't flown at all for the past ten years they will have no problem going through training...., I've seen constant examples of this over the years.