Start up high, comfortable, and then just get your entries and recoveries down...it's always better to enter smoothly and be able to recover without a panic. Your rudder will be very useful in your recoveries...I recently got my first tail-touch, and then coming in for the second, gravity and torque got me, I thought it too 3/4 turn, it took 1/4, pulled up elevator, plane went down, snapped fuse in half....Now I'm back at it with some higher-nitro fuel and a better prop on the same plane (profiles work wonders). Nothing can substitute for good 'ol stick time.