I will say this about DrMatt's videos, they did help. As I tested and tinkered with my stone I worked in some of the techniques, and they did improve the results I was getting. So they are helpful, if you have what I would assume is a coticule falling within the normal standard of deviation following those instructions should get you where you want to be.

But honed up to a Norton 8K, then used like the "problem coticules" he made a video for, my stone was still walking the edge back and making the shave less comfortable. So in my estimation my coticule is even more troublesome than the ones he was working with.