110% Yes.
You dont get the bad habit of going for (many times) "unnessecary" airshots and actually learn useful things like dodging and unpredictable surfing. Aswell you learn most dodging habits of enemies over the time and are able to actually hit your rockets with their full power.
Imo its more useful to constantly hit rockets with 80dmg on medium range then beeing able to hit 1.2 more airshots per second then the enemy pocket.
Even if you do bad in the beginning just keep on practicing.