Gents...i am waiting oh so impatiently for my shave ready 4/8's from a member of this board to arrive for my fisrt straight shave. I'm reading as much as I can and I have a philly strop on order as well. I have read and watched several videos about proper stropping techinique.

However, I continually see posts from Newbs that say they dulled their first razors with improper stropping technique. They don't general expand on what exactly they were doing wrong.

So I was hoping both newbs and mentors could chime in with some common errors that i can make sure to avoid.
Thanks,