USPSA not only allow the "Point up and left reload" they have many times used photographs in their magazine depicting that method. I am a Life Member (get the magazine free!)
Think about the mechanics of a reload a bit, if you are right handed, and do the up and left reload, you are moving the magazine well away from the nose of the new magazine.
Just rotating the pistol to the right, but level with the ground, keeps the muzzle pointing at the back stop, and is pointing the magazine well, directly at the new magazine insertion.
In an adrenalin fueled situation (a gun fight) you can actually touch your body with both arms, lessening your chance of a shake/fumble dropped magazine.
Who can shake that much, to have a shake that bad, for it to be a problem! Hullo?
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