Yea, if you any popping, it's going to break something eventually...
You should be letting out the clutch slowly until you can find that exact point where the clutch is in just far enough to let the wheels scrub the engine and get it spinning. Once you can do it consistently, you can start to go faster if you would like (less wear on the clutch?) but you just have to remember where the clutch needs to be and not go further than that. It should be neither violent or rough, if done properly, like dwendt1978 said, you shouldn't even be able to feel it start.
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