I think better continue the discussion here
All swordsmen like Zoro and Mihawk focus on cutting things, Zoro lives to cut everything he wants, Mihawk lives cutting icebergs, cutting ships and all his skills are based on cutting.
So it's only fair to say that in OP criteria, slashing skills are swordsmanship skills.
Also because it is very dumb and lame to associate meteors, fire dragons, meteors and CoC blasts are part of swordsmanship skills.
Which one are you talking about? Are you still in the shit over the Ikoku discussion?
Let's do the following, if this non-canonical information is that important to you, what does tell me about databook saying that Vista has fencing skills equal or greater than Mihawk?
Something extremely obvious doesn't need to be said. It's like saying that a character with Black Leg Style needs to use kicks to attack. There is no ambiguity for something so obvious to be revealed.
And that's precisely a technique to cut tougher things