Until I started flying the Fuji a couple of years back, I was probably more of the school that gently nudged the aircraft off the deck quite quickly (also, most of my flying was in a PA28 out of Bournemouth), accelerated in a level attitude in ground effect and then established a positive rate of climb. The only exception was if I was flying an aircraft with a nose wheel shimmy that I'd just take as much pressure of the nose U/C as possible without presenting too much of the draggy wing planform to the oncoming airflow.
These days in the Fuji, the stall warner is a tad on the premature side (but nosewheel shimmy can be noticeable and the prop is long compared to the ength of the nose leg), so I pull back a bit on the column but do not rotate until I can fly cleanly away from the ground without the stall warner going off.