Pressures and angles are your best ally and worst enemy. Getting them right provides a fanatastic shave, getting them wrong is pretty ugly. Additionally, face prep and stropping are just as crucial in achieving a close shave. Get comfortable with the angles and pressures. You can find lots to read in the wiki about them. Next is face prep. There is no magical formula for them. Just work at them. Ensure the cream/soap lather is of the consistency of whipped cream, not meringue or runny. When stropping speed is not critical, but technique is. Pay no attention to those movies where the barber/shaver whips that razor up and down the strop at the speed of sound. Those are the movies, afterall. Place just enough pressure on the blade to hold it flat on the strop, and no more....