Best order of progression to learn aerobatics

[Flyboy666]

A couple questions regarding learning aerobatics, for a relatively new pilot like myself:

1) As I progress out of my Aeroscout to my next plane, I want to focus on learning aerobatics. With the Scout, I have started trying to fly upside down. (I also do loops and rolls.)

That has me wondering if there is a "generally accepted" order in which to learn aerobatic maneuvers, since I would think they build upon each other to some respect.

For example (strictly to illustrate my point), should I start with flying inverted, then knife-edge, then harrier, then flat spins? Or is there a better order to learn these maneuvers in?

For now, I plan to focus on inverted and knife edge. But I want to at least be sure I am not starting off with a completely wrong approach.

I realize there is not necessarily "one answer" to my question that everyone will agree on, but I want to be sure I am at least taking a reasonable approach to this.

2) Obviously, I will be making mistakes as I learn, and crashes are inevitable. That gets time consuming and expensive. I read somewhere that cheap foamies like the Crack Yak are a good plane to use to learn aerobatics, because they are ... cheap. But they are also lightweight. So that has me wondering if I would be working against myself by trying to learn how to do maneuvers with such a light plane. (My field always has some wind, sometimes great then 10 mph. Even flying my Aeroscout can be a challenge at times.)

I was instead thinking of starting with something like a used Valiant, which is heavier than the Aeroscout, but not too expensive if I buy used. Versus a foamie.

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks

 

[Doom!]

I Pretty much just pick a trick and practice until I can do it. Never thought about any particular order.

 

[Quorneng]

How easy it is to fly inverted depends very much of the planes configuration & its wing section.
A true symmetrical section wing set to 0/0 incidence to the tail plane will fly inverted as easily as the right way up but with no natural longitudinal stability it requires constant pilot attention just to fly straight and level!
Surely it pays to get really good at simple aerobatics first like a constant diameter loop and no height loss in a hesitation roll.
I wish I could!