I was already stropping when I read the excerpt on stropping from the 1961 barber manual
here. I loved the suggestion to flip the razor on the strop
without doing the stroke. Learning to coordinate the flip with the thumb and forefinger
without bending the wrist seemed such a good idea.
I stropped carefully at a moderate pace in the beginning. I can go quite fast now but I don't strop as fast as I could preferring what I feel is an effective speed. I can actually strop faster than I can count the laps but I think that is way faster than necessary or even desirable.