Strop nicked up bad already (this is hard and frustrating)
I got my razor yesterday and strop today. I spent about 30 minutes practicing stropping with my disposable without a blade in it and thought I had things going well. I switched over to the new straight edge and started off slow. I had watched all the videos and techniques and thought it looked easy, boy was I wrong. I nicked my strop up something horrible (good thing its a cheapy.) It seemed like every time I spun the razor on its spine, when the blade would come down on the leather it would just push back up into it on both the top and the bottom. No matter how slow or fast I went, or hard or soft I pushed this would happen for me. Any suggestions?
Also how bad is it to now strop with a very nicked up strop? I feel like I am doing more bad than good at this point and I've only had the thing for an hour. The are a few nicks at the bottom and a few at the top. :(