Interesting question. The very early R22 helicopters tail boom was basically horizontal, which put the tail rotor closer to the ground.(later machines had longer uprights in the rear airframe which increased the tail boom angle and therefore the tail rotor was higher). There was a very experienced and well regarded instructor in Australia at the time that used to teach a technique that I have never seen before or since. Forward cyclic as you increased the collective, while keeping the front of the skids on the ground. The result was the helicopter sort of "standing on its toes" while still on the ground. As the machine started to lift off the ground the cyclic was eased back and the helicopter then came into a level hover.
As he was instructing potential mustering pilots, his reasoning was that as normal operations would likely be out in the scrub, the sooner you got the tail rotor away from grass and scrub growing on the ground, the better it was for both the helicopter and the pilot. It also ensured that the helicopter was starting to move forward away from any tendency to drift sideward towards a roll over.
Edit: it's about wheeled undercarriage helicopters 
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