Your amount of light pressure and Criswilson's amount of light pressure might be the same difference between my no pressure and my light pressure :<0) He may be honing American steel and your honing Sheffield. I am honing German. How many differences do you see here ?
I would ask you to try this. When you go up to the next grit do you feel the blade start to glide across the stone with less feedback ? In other words how long before it starts to feel smoother. Does it feel smooth all the way across the blade on the lap ? Start trying to feel it and you can forget counting. Now, I defer to sixgun's expertise, he has been honing a lot longer than I have. I am just sharing how I got past counting and pyramids. Good ways to get started but my confidence level went up 10 fold when I began to feel what was going on. This means on the hone and then on the face.

And criswilson does not do enough laps on the linen or the final strop :<0) If he tripled those last 2 steps I bet he could feel the difference. If not he hasn't shaved enough with a straight yet to tell. No offense cris , just my opinion based on my experience again!