Thanks a ton! I'm about to start stropping/straight shaving in the next couple days and will definately take this into consideration.

I too have seen the videos where it looks like people are pressing down with a good amount of pressure on the strop. Maybe they have the ninja stropping skills that only come with years of practice. In the mean time, I'll stick to the "correct" way.....

To make another musical reference, there is a saying when you begin learning classical music theory, that once you've learned the rules, you can break them....and then, little by little, you morph into a jazz musician =)

Those old school barbers are the jazz musicians of straight shaving!