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Again i ask
If they are better should a player try to copy it?
The simple answer is no. U can TLDR the rest.
Players can learn to apply certain ideas or mechanical principles and arrive at their own particular style, but to try to copy the visual appearance of someone else's fully refined technique would be foolish.
This is actually a big problem with THE fundamentals too. People get caught up in the form and getting the look right, but they miss the function and the reason it looks that way. Most people fall inside a fairly narrow range and the prescribed right look will get them at least close to ideal. For some lucky folks, that exactly right look will have them locked in and their stroke dead repeatable and 'on rails'. Others will be just that few degrees off perfect for them and never attain that top level of consistency.
Those greats I mention above have "better" strokes because they are reliable and repeat over and over and can be trusted to do so under great pressure. This goes beyond mere mechanics, tho their mechanics are sound even if they don't match the cookie cutter textbooks. And even the textbooks barely ever touch on efficient force production, which at best is left to the subconscious. At worst, some recommend biceps. Want to guess how many of the 5 greats I listed power their stroke with their biceps? I'd wager a lot on zero.
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