He cant play the game very well, but you're just supposed to tilt a little in whatever direction you're facing to pick up speed, jumping over obstacles as they come.
Sure its a dumb idea in a Sonic game, but the player made it look even worse by over rotating or rotating in a direction that was the complete opposite of where the goal was.
Not sure why the programmers even allowed the player to rotate that much, but to make it through the actual stage, if you have a little gaming sense, you should be ok.
Im not defending the idea by any means, but after watching the videos a few times, you see that the person playing makes the stage look alot worse than it actually is.
Same for Sunset Hill Act 2 with the vines, and homing attack dashing all over the place/ not knowing how a vine works.
EDIT: Like in the gif, stop jumping so damn much, just rotate a little to the left to slide back, rotate to the right to build up speed, then jump. Simple.
