Mindblade Magus with rapid manifest to retain ability to manifest a weapon as a standard action?

[Johnny_Devo]

Psychic pool:

Quote:

At 1st level,

a mindblade can expend 1 point from her psychic pool
as a standard action to manifest a light melee weapon
of her choice, formed from psychic energy.

Rapid manifest

Quote:

At 8th level, a mindblade can

manifest a psychic weapon as a swift action.

Basically, I wanted to confirm if I am correct in thinking that the mindblade retains the ability to (if he needs to) manifest a psychic weapon as a standard action.

I'm not sure how it would come up, but perhaps you really need your swift action for something else, or you've been disarmed but you've already used an immediate action prior to this.

[Bob Bob Bob]

"can", not "must", so yeah, it should give you more options instead of changing the ones you already have.