Thanks for the vid. It looks complicated, but I’m sure it gets easier with practice. I do 2color Fair Isle with one hand Conti and one English, but I recently did a 3 color Fair Isle and it was so hard to handle the 3rd strand. Thank you for the help.
I knit conti…purl English… its weird the purling conti is backward feeling to me… guess I’m a switch hitter:eyes:
I have always knitted english but I learned how to purl conti for fair isle. I love it!! However, I don’t use conti for anything else. To me it’s like trying to learn to write with my left hand. I feel uncoordinated and I can never get the yarn to feed correctly. I just seem to have a better rhythm with english.
Once I gave continental a fair chance (knit a pair of socks with it) it stopped being awkward and is actually now my preferred style of knitting. It does make me go faster, which is nice, but above and beyond that: it makes me stitches all so even!!! When I knit English, my purls are looser than my knits. When I did stockinette stitch on straight needles, the reverse side would have two rows of the ridges, then a little gap, then two more rows of ridges. Right now I’m working on the back of a sweater on straight needles, and the wrong side of the stockinette is completely even.
I knit with much more confidence when I knit continental, because I know my stitches are nice and even and looking fabulous 
I have perfect tension with English, but if I try Continental, it all looks like crap. My left hand is just too weak to hold the needle and yarn properly. (I have arthritis and nerve trouble on my left side) So, I’m stuck with English.