Bootstrap, excellent advice. My advice to you is to take the time and watch the DVD, it is full of a lot of information. More probably than a newbie can take in or make sense of until you are actually doing it, at least it was for me. I would suggest watching at the least the sections on stropping the razor and shaving. They have some good pointers in there as well. Then as you have time, or need more information about the other sections on the DVD, watch those.

Also, one of the items that I have found usefull is to review the DVD after several shaves usually right before I shave, then with that in mind pay attention to what I am doing to always try to have the best possible technique for shaving and stropping as is possible.