In a light aircraft I was taught to look out and down of the side windows, in daytime, and not to stare fixedly over the nose
Personally, I find there is nothing more likely to b*gger up my judgement in the latter stages of approach than looking out of the side window. For me this is the one phase of flight when fixating forward runway/airspeed/runway is the best way.
And with a tail-dragger its not so much a hold-off as "going fishing" with that tail wheel.