Appreciate the humour but this is not a correct representation of what swiping is like when done well. It’s more like: the runner keeps going straight without losing any speed.
Thankyou for clarifying. I’ll let my sense of humour know that it is incorrect.
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Right on. I will say though, if done “incorrectly” in a DBX context…it does sort of feel like that video lol! Huge props to that guy for face planting AND summersaulting then keeping going Haha!
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Could be! I think his level of shred is just too much for the general public though. To many listeners that many notes per second is just cacophonous. Plus, they’re totally disconnected with just how hard it is to play like that so they don’t have the appreciation most of us have, when listening to some virtuoso even if what they play “isn’t really our thing”.
You’ve got a point though. What if Yngwie’s band had written Livin on a Prayer? 
Touche’ 
The reason I wanted to make the clarification is that we see waaaay too many people around here that become obsessed with trying to avoid swiping at all costs, and more often than not this holds back their progress.
Imagine if Paul Gilbert went like:
“OK I’m first going to make sure I never hit the muted string in the Me lick, and only then I’ll maybe think of joining a band / recording a song / playing something that’s not an exercise”.
…but I do find your meme equal parts hilarious and inspiring like @joebegly mentioned
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“the Me lick” 
But again, knocking down hurdles is actually an excellent analogy for swiping, since there’s a “good way” to do it, and a “bad way” to do it. While it’s possible to knock them down in a disastrous way, the reality is that world class sprinters do it all the time, even though it’s usually not "plan A’. They generally don’t set out with the intention of knocking them down, but if they do, it’s usually not a major detraction from performance (or a rule violation).
The video below summarizes the changes in hurdling rules (and the design of hurdles themselves) over the years. There’s been a bit of a pendulum to the strictness of the rules over the years as they try to narrow in on an ideal, and at one point they needed to be modified to deal with runners who use the strategy of deliberately blasting through all the hurdles on purpose. Though according to this video, the biggest concern about that (and enforcement against it) is mostly about about the potential for displaced hurdles to negatively affect runners in other lanes.
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I’ve wondered about this. I imagine the swiping happened inadvertently when he got to a certain speed and was unable to clear the outside string, thus hitting the hurdle so to speak. Whether or not he or anyone else realized it I don’t know but I do remember that nobody made any reference to it in the guitar literature or instructionals til decades later.
what does Paul Gilbert call the Paul Gilbert lick?
No you have me wondering what Yngwie calls the Yngwie 6s pattern…
Well in context, he’s plenty famous, and infamous at the same time. He’s about as famous as he can be.
Paul just calls it “the lick” or a “lick”, and Yngwie just calls it a “pattern” or doesn’t call it anything.
Also, Paul says he learned “the lick” from someone at GIT. I think the first VHS instructional with that lick was Michael Angelo Batio’s 1987 Star Licks video.
While I have no proof there is part of me that wonders if Al Di Meola played both the PG lick and the YJM 6’s before either of them did.
Edit:
Race with the devil on Spanish highway contains the pg lick…1977. Now I just need to find him playing the Yngwie 6’s…
Here’s Chet Atkins playing the “Gilbert lick”, way back in 1972. I discovered this 6-7 years ago, and got a kick out of that. Good ol’ Chet…
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Wow great find. I love Chet.
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He’s also the earliest guy I’ve seen do ascending/descending 5 string sweep arpeggios - here he is in '75.
Chet Atkins, the father of shred guitar. lol
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The Yngwie sixes pattern in the early days when he alternated between 3 notes and a 4th note above is like the keyboard ostinato in UK’s “In The Dead Of Night”, something that Yngwie jammed on in Sweden and eventually covered in the 90s.
But where Eddie Jobson would play D A B C B A, Yngwie would alternate between the D and just another C. More commonly, it’s just the C on top now.
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Pretty sure I have read that this is where Yngwie likely got his 6’s inspiration from:
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Are you talking in recorded music of the 20th century or in general? I’m quite positive any of the six note per beat patterns or licks, predate any of the people mentioned by centuries.
Oh I just meant guitar. I’m sure baroque music had these patterns too. The proof is there I am just too lazy to put in the research lol ! I started last night listening to some old Di Meola. I heard a few instances of the PG lick in there, still yet to hear the YJM 6’s
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