The one great thing about straight razor shaving is that you can develop what works best for you. I'm not going to disagree with our esteemed colleague, but strop the best way for you. The only real fundamental is the actual stropping technique. Ensure you do equal numbers of strokes in each direction. For me it's 20 laps on the linen followed by 60 laps on the leather. I use the tradional method, but that is works best for me.