Phoinix:
Your problem about stirring the stick could lie in your reference point. Don't look too close in.
Think of balancing a stick on your finger - lots of stirring initially. Look at the tip of the stick, and the stirring slows down. Look at your finger, and the stick hits you on the head.
All you will achieve by stirring the stick is (in extremes) reach the limits of the hydraulic pump, the controls will lock, and give you one heck of a fright. At the other end, all you do is continually tilt the lift vector away from the vertical, waste lift, and sink towards the ground.
A 206 will be less skittish that an R22, and with its inertia there will be a slightly longer delay between the control input and the end result of movement.