https://community.usms.org/swimming/f/general/12539/straight-arm-recoveryAfter decades of &quot;finger drag&quot; drills to teach us how to keep elbows high during freestyle arm recovery ---- why do I see soon many olympian swimmers using straight arm recovery?? What do they know that I an unaware of?en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.usms.org/thread/199210?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 12 Aug 2016 04:07:32 GMT3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:92f4610f-918f-4e76-95ba-1aaeef6a84cc__steve__sometimes i dont recover from using a straight arm<div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.usms.org/thread/199206?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 12 Aug 2016 03:29:12 GMT3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:ecbb259f-eae4-4d44-b2b7-80a055a1feb8SojerzHere&#39;s a good discussion of straight v. bent by Gary Hall Sr. and the Race Club. This article is posted on a USAT site, but I&#39;m sure it is also available on the race club site. <a href="https://cms.teamusa.org/USA-Triathlon/News/Blogs/Multisport-Lab/2016/May/31/Straight-Arm-vs-Bent-Arm-Recovery-Part-Two-Newtonian-Physics">cms.teamusa.org/.../Straight-Arm-vs-Bent-Arm-Recovery-Part-Two-Newtonian-Physics</a><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.usms.org/thread/199194?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 12 Aug 2016 03:08:14 GMT3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:a2553997-d98b-475c-904a-36faf67de107sunruhyou didnt pay attention for decades either then. this little girl...you may have heard of her...janet evans...pretty much did a straight arm recover to set several world record and win a few gold medals...back in 1988 and before. so yeah...3 decades. hardly new hardly innovative cesar did not do it and he&#39;s still got the WR so...big deal 1 stroke is not the be all end all for everone<div style="clear:both;"></div>