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Wouldn't Yoda have done better with a more conservative fighting style?

Ok, Yoda seems to do a lot of bouncing around and flashy techniques in his lightsaber fights. He probably doesn't get anywhere close to an even match very often so it probably isn't an issue on a regular basis.

However, I do think it was to his detriment when he fought Dooku and Palpatine. Particularly in the case of the latter, I think he would have stood a much better change of winning if he'd taken a step back, realised that this was likely to be a difficult, drawn out fight and not wasted all his energy in the first five minutes bouncing off the walls.
gpt
Yoda used his fighting style (Ataru) to compensate for his lack of reach. His style focussed on overwhelming the enemy with sheer speed and acrobatics. 

Yoda was very old-school, to the point that he wouldn't even use the Force to walk properly. He and the rest of the Jedi had spent their time preparing to fight the old Sith-Jedi war that ended a millennium before, and they paid for it. He hadn't adapted to the new Sith, and trying to rethink his duelling tactics while fighting the new Sith'ari would have been suicide.