Hmmm... I actually made a pretty big mistake here. For some reason I got Paul's quote regarding choken mixed up with what Arik was saying about kodachi-- in other words, I thought that Arik was saying that choken were useless. Not that one position really makes more sense than the other, but it does explain why I went off on the subject of nagamaki.
David Sims
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