If your strop is made so that you can take it apart, I'd recommend doing that. Strop by first laying the webbing or cloth strop on a flat, clean surface--a countertop works--and strop your razor. Stropping this way makes you go slow, lets you master the technique, especially the flip, and makes it much less likely that you'll nick the strop. Then do the same with the leather strop. I'd recommend stropping this way until you really get the muscle memory down. For me, that was a couple of weeks, but YMMV. Welcome aboard, good luck and enjoy those shaves!