Quote Originally Posted by Utopian View Post
I've never seen that part before. The analogy is flawed in that an axe stroke cuts straight into a tree and it does not correspond with the cutting angle of a scything stroke.
the article is describing the straight-down stroke there to contrast with the forthcoming description of the scything stroke. I think it's a little confusing. Since we don't use the wiki-talk pages, I suppose a rewrite could be discussed here