"Anonymous. Is it not a fact that the Italians get much more rise doing it their way than those who stick to the old way."

Quantity is not an absolute virtue.

"And are they nearer to the correct defintion of how it is actually printed."

No. Because they continue lowering until they start rising. Nobody is literally following a simplisticly literal reading of the book, because everyone continues downard during the early part of step 1. It's merely a question of how long they continue downwards - do they reacht the low point of the swing between the positions of step three and step one, or only as their body arrives over step one?