Hello,
I am in the same position as yourself
i.e. I have just joined a target club but I wanted to use a longbow (no one in this club uses anything but recurve and compound)
After completeing the basic training on a recurve I bought myself a AFB (for reasons you can see at
http://www.alanesq.com/longbow.htm) and despite my technique is no doubt completely wrong and I struggle to hit anything at all I can tell you one thing - I have a big smile on my face all the time I am using it :-)