When I learned to fly this year, I didn't have a BB, but my instructors were used to training without it. My first crash was also less then a month from soloing, that was horrible. The worst part was bringing it to my uncle, who had been flying and building for over 30 years. He looked at it and said "Even I can't fix that"! I knew at that point I did a good job crashing. But I was able to pick up from that and move on. His other greatest quote was "You show me someone who hasn't crashed and I'll show you someone who hasn't flown". I once saw one person crash 3 planes in one day, talk about bad luck. I guess what I'm saying is don't give up!!!