Thanks for the info. Yes it's just a light slap and the spine stays on the strop.

I guess I am overly concerned. Since I am,a stropping newbie, I found bad techniques at first and hand been working to correct. I did find myself at first slightly lifting the spine. But I think that my stropping at first probably degraded the edge. Putting it under a 15x loupe does not really show any evidence of a rolled edge. I can shave a patch of my forearm BBS but it just doesn't hav the oomph to get the chin hairs down to DFS. It drags a lot there. And I am paying close attention to my angle.

So I suspect the first few stroppings may have left me with a less than desirable edge. I am just trying to get better do some extra laps on both the webbing and leather in hopes of correcting the edge without having to go to the CRoX or to use my free honing coupon so soon. In short, I know it's not the razor but rather it's me.FWIW.

So i am pretty much just trying to get advice on anything I perceive to be improper technique so I can learn from it. I realize,its something to learn and this is part of said improvement. And I'm more than willing to take the time to learn.

BTW, I'm doing about 40 laps on the strop in about 1 minute and it is a SRD English bridle leather