Crab ... you have changed your tune . You are now effectively agreeing with me ! I don’t care which way the blades are going as it makes no difference.
Not quite Nigel - you say you wait until it starts to yaw before applying pedal (any pedal?) - I suspect you don't. I still maintain that most pilots start to put the appropriate pedal in as soon as the lever starts to come up and then fine tune that pedal input as the aircraft gets lighter on the skids/wheels. That is the reason for the mental prompt and I only use it when going from one type to another.
The link to the thread is that this guy yawed left on take-off - whether he had too much left pedal or too much aft cyclic we don't know but a good and progressive take-off technique would surely have prevented this accident.