RE: Different styles more forgiving of form?
In most cases put not alla longbow has a shorter brace height than a recurve and less speed. A bent longbow has more speed and less hand shock than a straight longbow.
I hower have been working on a longbow limbswith ILF fittings for the last year.
only you can deside what is best to you. You need to go to a traditional 3-d shoot and shoot different bows.