Thread: When to start stropping ....

Unless you're going *really, really* slow, then yes, you'll get the same results as if you were going really fast.

In order to strop effectively, you only need to be making, judging by the Wiki's description, over 30 strokes a minute. That gives you up to a full 2 seconds for a stroke which is really way more than even most beginners need.

For me, I can't make a good stroke unless I'm going fast enough. This doesn't mean I'm "fast" (I'm totally not, ha ha ha), but I have to get into a rhythm. It takes me a little under a second to make a full stroke, right-to-left and left-to-right. That's not very quick, but it's more than fast enough to be effective.