Hi, I'm afraid I was not. "dummy loop at the very start of the test" was good enough to skip items.
I did play a bit with JetBrains MPS and I created a prototype of a DSL for JMeter though: http://recordit.co/0ngw6RSkm9 What do you think of that? I mean even if JMeter core does not support "skip CSV records", a DSL can "easily" workaround that (e.g. by appending dummy loop at the start). Vladimir