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His is an exaggerated example, for sure, but I don't think that technically he is flying in the face of accepted practice per se. I think if we were able to analyse what is going on with his...

There's deflection and there's deflection. I like to use pressure when I strop and until I videoed my stropping I did not realise there is quite a bit of deflection going on when I do. The trick is...

It is hard to say - try stropping it normally for a while first and see what happens. If there is little or no improvement, you may well have folded the edge and need to go back to the hones.
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It's hard to explain exactly what it is, now that I am on the spot! It sent me scurrying off to the strop actually :D

Probably the best I can come up with is that it is a certain kind of change in...

To be honest with you Alan, I've only ever found one approach or goal was necessary for my stropping - I strop until I can feel the edge and the strop behave in a certain way with each other, and...