User blog comment:TheTobarMethod/Why you SHOULDNT follow Pro's./@comment-4131177-20130214210457

Just to make sure, Tobar: No hate intended, no argument intended, no off topic discussion, just my opinion on your topic:

If you did not find your own way yet, it is nothing bad to try and imitate someone who found his own way. Either you are lucky and it helped you becoming better (chances are low, i totally agree with you there, but it still can happen), or you fail, then you learned something from it as well. If you fail and do not learn something from it then... well, then you will very likely not manage to find your own way anyway.

I mean, it's like with sports. When you see someone performing good, you want to learn how his technique works. And well, you need to understand and imitate a technique to find out if it works for you or not. It is a trial-and-error-learning-process. Science would not be where it is today if people would not constantly try to copy the achievements of others by copying their methods.

While copying someone's style will not necessarily put you on the same level as him, it can still be useful in order to learn something from it - even if it is that it will not work for you because of your own skills, or different interpreation of play, or due to the different environment.