My suggestioin would be stick forward to get the tail in the air. This
way, you are in control of the airplane. If you leave the tail in the
ground, the airplane will take off when it wants to, leaving you to react
to what it has just done. I believe your task is to make the airplane do
what you want it to do, and not to try to catch up with what it just did.

And if you were flying a nose dragger, I would start wit the stick back to
get the skid up off the ground.

The above assumes air tow for your launch method. Nose draggers and
winches often will require the stick be held full forward at the start of
launch. Why? High enough initial acceleration to change it to a tail
dragger!

My two cents, and I am NOT an instructor. So, you just got more advice
than you paid for.

Steve Leonard