Skin streatching( do'/don't?)

I could not find a thread on the topic of skin stretching. I'm just wondering from some experienced de shavers as well as some that have experienced irritation. It's a little bit painful some of those positions with my bad shoulders from lifting weights and such( plus lack of flexibility). Any thoughts?

Religiously. Sharp blade on floppy skin is asking for trouble. There's usually more than one way to approach stretching a particular area.

I do with a straight, but not with a DE.

I tend to look up or down or right or left pretty far to get that "stretched" skin effect. But my youthful skin is so taut that it is almost superfluous.

I shave my head, not my face, but I do tend to stretch in areas that I know can be problematic getting "bbs". generally speaking, I don;t find it "necessary", but without stretching, some areas just won;t get as clean as they could be.

Since my head is a lot less loose than face skin, and with vastly fewer angles, I don't think I can provide any real tips. I will say this: when I trim my cheek lines over my beard, I tend to fill my cheeks and upper lip area with air, and puff them out as much as I can. This seems to provide the necessary stretch for me to accomplish my goals in this area...

Stretching is very important to me, with DE’s and Straights. Not only does it help with the trouble areas but it produces better results. Cheers.

I stretch with a straight razor and don't with a safety razor.

On the lower half of my neck, I only stretch by turning my head. I've read in several places stretching can increase irritation as it increases the chance of cutting the whisker so that it is below the skin surface, promoting ingrown hair. For me, that means being careful on the lower part of my neck as that is my only trouble spot for irritation.

I only stretch near my Adam's apple. I move the skin away from it so I don't have to shave over it.

Thank you all for your input and a couple of suggestions to!

Another technique that may help on the neck and just under the jawline is "bullfrogging."  This is where you tip your head down and tuck your chin in toward your neck.  It should sort of "fill in" your neck some cutting down on such sharp angle changes under your jaw and on your neck.  Just make sure you are using a light touch if you try this as the skin isn't necessarily being pulled tighter in this technique.

If you haven't looked at mantic59 videos on YouTube or Mark's website sharpologist.com , I highly recommend checking those out!  Here's a link to his "Top 5 Shaving Tricks:"  mantic59s-top-5-shaving-tricks  I thought that the "bullfrog" technique was in one of those videos, but I guess not.  It must be in one of his other YouTube videos.