My basic PPL instructor at Sleap, the late, great Adam Wojda, ex-Polish and Royal Air Forces, taught me what he called fishtailing on final approach, used, he said, by piston-engine fighter pilots to keep the runway in sight.
It was an exhilarating and fun manoeuvre even in an Auster, side-slipping from 500 ft towards the threshold with full flap and a trickle of power for 10-20 seconds to one side, then changing rapidly to the other side, 20 seconds, change again and so on until straightening out at 30 ft to land. The difficult part was staying on the centre-line all the way down. I don't think it was called "Creeping Jesus", though.
He also taught me curved approaches that involved side-slipping all the way round the 180 degree turn from 800 ft downwind to the threshold at 30 ft, as a good way to get down quickly. That was fun, too, but you needed to know there wasn't anyone getting too close on final.
Last edited by old,not bold; 28th Sep 2021 at 15:40.