Try and keep in mind that the advice we try and give here is general recommendations that are more or less classical techniques that have been used successfully for many many years by an awful lot of people. Certainly there are some people who seemingly do everything the direct opposite and have great success. My advice initially is to learn to do it the classic way and once you have some experience under your belt then you can strike off on your own and experiment and adapt things to your own ways. As they say all roads lead to Rome. As long as the razor gets sharp thats what matters but also remember if you try it some unorthodox way, bad habits are hard to break and if you mess up your edge, well you know who to blame.