Almost. The strong beats are the down strokes. The soft beats are the upstrokes. So one-down stroke two upstroke, three down stroke, four upstroke. You can hear that the up strokes don't have the same volume as the down strokes.
You can double up and do an up and down stroke on the stomp part of the foot beat and two more on the foot lift. So you are fitting two strums into the same amount of time as the single down stroke.
Once you get that steady foot beat, you can play with strumming rhythms by adding more down strums or more upstrokes. Skip an up or down stoke by doing a strum without touching the strings so that your arm maintains the strumming timing.. Play with it. Once you are locked into those two strong notes with your foot, you have a natural marker to help you keep the beat of what ever rhythm you want to use.
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