are you sure he wasnt just cueing? for vinyl you have to spin back to yer start point everytime you want to cue it up after pitching it (which could be several times well for me anywho ). and before you drop its not unusual to hit the one several times, which can look like a scratch movement. such as for me i count 1,2,3,4 and then from 5 to 8 i quite often hit the one in double time.