Sounds good, but if you spend too much time contemplating with the edge contacting the strop, the odds of you pulling in the wrong direction ever so slightly and nicking your strop go up significantly.

I know this because I used to do the same thing with the waiting and thinking. It got me into trouble.

If you do your pause and think time with just the spine resting on the strop, you should be just fine, but it ends up being a little unnatural.