If you have solo'ed a trainer than you got the skills to practice slow flight.Like daRock said,get to a comfortable altitude and try different situations.Stiks are great planes,forgiving enough to recover from stalls(at altitude) and will handle aerobatics well.more you fly a particular plane the more its habits will be ingrained into you.Youll know if your too high,too fast,too slow,etc earlier and then youll avoid the situations where you feel the need to gun and jerk the plane into the air.