You have a straight bladed drawknife, don't you? Straight blade and straight back makes it hard to focus work in one area of the stave, that's why I gravitated to the slightly rounded drawknife.
With experience with the draw knife, tool control and confidence, I was able to step up to a very sharp drawknife and eliminate a lot of the brute force. Sharp tools for me!
No one else has mentioned it, but the early/late wood ratio on that stave puts it in a pretty rare category! Lovely stuff!