Originally Posted by
Jaatinen1982
I have understand that speed is important thing about stropping. And to get most out of stropping you need speed to align the edge. Speed increases friction and heat on blade. I always warm up my strop with scrubbing it with my palm.
Here comes the BUT. When you start your stropping skills don't match to speed that is needed. So most important thing as others already has said is to learn how to strop properly. Don't worry about speed, learn to do it right from beginning. It needs practice before muscle memory learn how to strop properly and you can increase stropping speed.