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I've used that stroke on razors too. So I've gone from 'I don't think I've ever done it' to I've done it without thinking about it.

Did some honing today and paid attention. Yes, my stroke using a rolling X on a smiling razor is pretty much exactly like I described above. As the pressure point moves from heel to toe, the tangent...

Ha! Thinking about PaulFLUS' and Tc's comments about sharpening the toes of knives and I'm saying 'Yeah, but you are still mostly sharpening perpendicular to the tangent, it only appears to be toe...

Well, then you often get into that stabilizer, shoulder, shank, interference that I was talking about. I don't think that strai orientation matters very much on the finished edge of a razor, though...

Are you confusing that with edge trailing? Often the shoulder or the shape of the spine and shank get in the way of very much of an edge leading heel following stroke.