The only problem is that doing that from the cruise, you very quickly end up pointing at the ground with rapidly increasing speed.
A combination of lowering the lever and cyclic forward 'bunt' is the 'safer' way - many military crewmen have been weightless briefly in the back of helicopters like that.
Did that during 2K hrs on the BO during the 90’s and some years on in the anti tank role
. After a bunch of years on bigger ‘busses’, I now sit in the H145D3 after retirement from the Air force three days ago :-)
Somehow the burglar always return to the crime scene :-)