I have flown both and the both fly good. The alpha is what i learned on and its gentle and a good flyer. The arrow can be more aerobatic. If you play video games then you will probably learn a lot faster then most people. I play video games some and I got the hang of it pretty fast. If you want you can always get the alpha and when your ready buy the aero wing (or see if a person at your club has a wing from one that they crashed) and put it on your alpha. You will have to modify the alpha wing saddle to fit the arrow wing but I dont think it will be hard. My dad is about to do this with his alpha since it had a date with the tree a couple weekends ago.

The alpha is a good flyer you might look into it.