Thread: Shaving Technique

Question 1: sure, this is good technique.

Question 2: Some stroke directions that can be done effortlessly with a DE or a cartridge razor, can't be done with a straight. Mostly due to the length of the blade. Changing hands or changing the grip can sometimes offer an answer on how to tackle certain areas. Tilting or turning your head, and pulling the skin up, down, or sideways are other things you can experiment with, in order to tackle the whiskers in the right direction.
For me personally, even then, there still is a spot left, in the hollow part of my neck, underneath the jawline, where I should be able to go sideways in order to shave precisely against the direction of the growth, which is the only way for me to achieve total smoothness.
Unless I would purchase a (non-existing) custom razor with a bend blade, that's an impossible thing to do.
Hence I need to do the job at that spot, without being able to go ATG. How well I succeed in that, always determines the end-results of a particular shave for me. Things that help: a very sharp razor, a razor with a smiling curve at the edge, adding a scything motion to the stroke, finding the perfect cutting angle for a given razor.

Hope this offers you some ideas you can put to use for your situation,

Bart.