I've been looking at honing/stroping methods and noticed most, if not all, use cycles (one forward, one back) If I understand the principles behind honing and stroping, wouldn't the outcome be the same if you do sets (e.g .10 forward, 10 back) as well? The reason is because I would imagine that consistency, control, and speed would be improved if the grip wouldn't need to alternate so much you just need to make sure that you lift the blade off. So long as you do equal amounts on both sides of the blade, conceptually would it give the same results?

I would prefer to do sets instead of cycles so I wanna know if this has been spoken of.