I was once told by an experienced instructor that for a short field landing you should come in at your short field airspeed & in addition to this you should have a slightly nose high attitude.
the idea being you raise the nose a little higher than normal on approach, the airspeed will bleed off a little, so you add a little more power to keep your approach speed, while at the same time continuing your descent to your aiming point (its quite tricky because if you add too much power or your attitude varies you wont have the correct descent gradient or you wont maitain the correct airspeed). then simply cut the power when you reach your aiming point & the extra induced drag created by your increased AoA makes the aircraft drop onto the rwy (not really a smooth landing).
I have only tried it in a mooney and it worked quite well. however, in the real world you shouldnt have to use it (if you cant land on a strip due to length, you definately wont be taking-off from it)
