As stated before, a fast plane, a highly manueverable plane, a sensitive plane, are not a good thing. I've flown AJ's planes before and went home to turn my roll rates down. Something pitch sensitive has to be maintained at all times. You really want a plane that you can leave alone and look at the other planes with. Fly with your perifery vision on your plane and your targets in your sight. Make your plane a tad nose heavy and put a big elevator on it to yank it around. It'll loop tighter before snapping that way. I've never been able to process Teamseaholms method of pursuit tactics. I can visually pick up whats happening but I can't process speach fast enough, neither can a call for him as I can't get the words out before the situation is gone. It does take practice and he excells at it so I'd give it a try, but don't be afraid to give up on it. A big, longwinged plane is ok, but if it costs you too much, takes too much time to build or for some reason gives you an emotional bond to it, you won't be as willing to commit with it. SPAD's are cheap and non-emotional. They don't take much time to build and take one heck of alot of punishment. There are more active, tighter turning and longer winged planes out there, but to get started with they are hard to beat.

Fly inverted over the action and pull down into the stagler, or when someone is chaising you, roll inverted and push an outside. If they start to follow you pull inside hard and quick. KNOW how tight you can turn at full throttle and do it. I pracitce cuban 8's as low as I can get to become comfortable with this. I also found out how less tight my scale planes were turning this way when I planted a zero to the wing root trying to evade a guy. Practice high speeed low flight, learn to trim the weeds and think nothing of it. Then learn just how tight you can turn while doing that. Cartwheels out away from the safetyline do you no good, I know from experience. Practice SLOW flight. I suckered a couple folks into their demise by dragging my streamer in the bean field. They'd fly by, I'd pop up and back down with their streamer on my wing.

Use your throttle! Don't fly past a guy and offer him your streamer.

When all else fails or your blood gets too high, show em nothing but prop.