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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
In terms of technique it's all in the wrist, you want the minimum movement and minimum pick contact - practice across all the strings and the hand position should remain the same for all six of the strings, just up or down one string.
Check out Gary Holt in this (21:12 is good for seeing what he's actually doing in terms of down picking and alt picking):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izqj1GwJMm8
Check out this Ola Englund video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snW4VvayukE
I hold my pick similar to this and find it very efficient.
Don't forget that..
It looks like he's picking away from the body on the down strokes too.
Some guys play like a drummer with their right hand. Maybe that's the key, tap out rhythms with your right hand all day every day, maybe using thumb and fingers so you roll your wrist to do it.
I heard the phrase recently "Familiarity breeds confidence" and i know that anything done fast, requires confidence even down to the most basic of actions.
If you have never been to London, you're not going to be very confident as you drive from Leytonstone to Putney (God what an awful journey that would be in daytime traffic !) whereas if you're a courier in London, you swill swear like hell about it but you'll do it so confidently that you will even have time to get pissed off at stuff etc.
I was a London Courier 20 years ago and doing something like that, you quickly learn to get it right because you do it so often and so intensively.
I reckon anything can be done with a guitar if you do it that many times until you could do it in your sleep.
*Disclaimer - If you get hit in the middle of the night for tapping out picking patterns in your sleep, i'm not responsible for any injury that may occur !