Reversing, I'm hopeless. Any tips?

When I was at Swains (a lifetime ago) I was new to class one Driving. They paired me up with an EE guy (really nice guy, not much English, everything was left) who had this method of reversing full lock to full lock and snaking it in. He tried to teach me his way, but could I hell as like get it. I still don’t use full lock on a reverse to this day, except in rarely exceptional circumstances.