The reason you add power and shift weight to the rear is to get the majority of you&bike's weight off the front. A wheelie will actually completely recover headshake/tank slapper because the front tire won't even be on the ground.(nerfboy @ Nov. 02 2006,17:48) Yes Timmyduck, I understand you believe that to be the best technique. But clearly in this situation that did not work.
Does anybody have experience with this technique working? Or a recovery technique that did work when experiencing tank slapping?
Frankly attempting to wheelie as a recovery method seems pretty high risk with a pretty low chance of success.
The negative to this is you will be increasing speed and its not a 100% guarrantee that it will work. But your only other choice is to do nothing and "hope" it stops...