I have to agree with Jason. Get yourself a Slow Stick for $35 and practice crashing on it then move up to the Tiny X. I think you will be much less frustrated in the short term and long term doing so. The foam plane will take much more abuse than the balsa. Don't get me weong though I have a Mountain Models Dandy that is a Balsa plane and I love it. I also have a MM Cessna 180 that I have been working on. The Tiny has always been one of my favorite looking planes but I wanted to get my flying skills up to where I could handle it first.

The one thing that I think makes the Slow Stick a little better to start out with is the reaction time you have to corect yourself while flying. If you do A, then you need to respond by doing B or C to corect the mistake. With the Slow Stick it gives you a second for it to go from your eyes to the brain to the fingers to do conteractive manuvers. With a faster plane like the Tiny you must react without thinking about it. That is usualy not a skill to many new pilots have. If you do great. If not and you decide to try the Tiny first, get a big bottle of CA-lol.

Godd luck with the new plane.