Hi,
I strong recommend users of TestWise treating the recorder as a helper tool, in other words, automation testers are comfortable writing maintainable test scripts without using recorders. With that in mind, the recorders are useful.
For testers are are new and trying to write Watir/Selenium test scripts with TestWise, I recommend trying the exercises in the first half of this ebook (the first 7 chapters are free, click the 'Download sample PDF')