So I've been straight razor shaving for a while now and I am very satisfied with the whole thing. I shave mostly every day and do manage to get very confortable shaves with hardly any trouble, nicks or irritation. But I always have to stop a step away from perfection... I fail to get BBS from every direction.
I always do a 2 pass shave: WTG and XTG. But when I try to go ATG I always fail... It becomes a very painful thing, the razor starts pulling and I just give it up... I find there's no need to ruin a next to perfect shave by irritating my skin doing something that hurts.
I guess I've tried everything: angle, pulling the skin, going smooth and slow, small strokes and even perlilous motions that shoud be labeled as "don't try this at home!"...
So... today I tried once more. Same results... after a little atempt I just gave up, tried to touch up and off I went. Once again feeling frustrated with the ATG stroke.
I saw videos, read all the shaving information I downloaded from the web when I first started up with this and no results... the razor keeps pulling.
I know you may think it's dull. But I strop correctly (I guess...) and touch up on the hone once in a while and then use a pasted strop for the final polish. The razor goes great WTG and XTG so I guess it's sharp enough... Or is it?...

I feel a bit frustrated. I know ATG is a different ball game altoghether... but I was wondering if any of you have had similar trouble and if you'd be willing to shed some light on this problem of mine.

Thanks in advance.