As I understand it stropping is to align the edge of the blade in order to keep it sharp...

So I have the poor mans strop and from what I can read I should be doing an x pattern, basically start with the end of the toe off the strop and as I move away from me I should end with the heel of the blade off the edge. Then I flip the blade on it's spine and reverse the process ending with the toe back over the edge of the strop.

This way the whole blade get's stropped. But wouldn't this make the edge of the blade aligned at an angle? Or am I over thinking this?