Nah, you didn't waste your money. The more you know about different styles, the easier it is for you to develop your own.

When I was a kid, I lived around and shot with Apaches and Comanches. I learned to shoot using the pinch draw/floating anchorlike they did,and didn't learn to shoot like a white man till I was in college.I've played around with a whole bunch of different shooting methods since though, and I think Ferguson's explanation of Hill's gap shootingmethod will get you to shooting better, sooner.

If you pay attention to what he says, eventually you begin paying less and less attention to the gap until, in effect, you become an instinctive shooter. But you still have the gap system to fall back on when you switch to a different bow or try different arrows.