An examiner once showed me a SF landing in a 2000 172SP. We touched the runway right at the end, and were stopped in about 100m. He came in at 50kts, and just flew it into the ground and stood on the breaks. Never knew a 172 could do that......
englishal, when I was taught short field landings in a Warrior (161), the trick was to to get onto the back of the drag curve, with the final approach flown with a rather nose-high attitude, lots of power keeping the descent rate in check, no flare as such - the nose is already high! Then chop the power when just above the runway, and jam on the brakes! Very much "flying it on"!
My personal best was getting the stall warner just going off on short final, touching down on the displaced threshold and stopping before the PAPIs.
SD