I'm sure that guy keeps his knives reasonably sharp. The truth is, that if you maintain blades regularly they don't really require much work to keep them sharp and you can keep doing that for a long long time until the blades need real work. So I'll bet his techniques give him pretty decent results.
That said, I don't think he's teaching much here that's valuable.
Counting strokes is essentially useless. You must observe your work as you go to monitor your progress. Without observation, sharpening won't be successful. The king stone is a good basic stone. But who knows if he formed a burr, or apexed the blade? He didn't test or (seem to) observe the blade at all. If the blade was already relatively sharp, then see my first paragraph above. If you tried this with a fairly dull blade, you'd probably have a fairly dull blade when you were done.
Going from strop to ceramic rod makes no sense to me. That's going backwards and is likely to form a burr, rather than removing the burr.
Did you notice what he did on the Emerson Commander (recurved balde)? He sharpened the same side twice and skipped the other side entirely on the ceramic cup. Just a simple mistake, which is ok. What's not ok is that he didn't do any observation or testing, so he missed his mistake.
I don't want to sound like that guy who's always criticizing others. I appreciate him trying to help people out. I just don't think his ideas or techniques are very good in this case.
Brian.
