I want to be able to reorder tableview cells using a longPress gesture (not with the standard reorder controls). After the longPress is recognized I want the tableView to essent
So essentially you want the "Clear"-like row reordering right? (around 0:15)
This SO post might help.
Unfortunately I don't think you can do it with the present iOS SDK tools short of hacking together a UITableView + Controller from scratch (you'd need to create each row itself and have a UITouch respond relevant to the CGRect of your row-to-move).
It'd be pretty complicated since you need to get the animation of the rows "getting out of the way" as you move the row-to-be-reordered around.
The cocoas tool looks promising though, at least go take a look at the source.