"Shooting low wrist, I don't get full extension in my elbow. It keeps a natural, soft bend when I'm shooting. If I used high wrist, straight elbow, perfect "T" form and really stretched into the shot, I'd have a 35" draw length! It's bad enough at 33". I don't want a longer draw."

Bingo! A credible lead as to how I believe the bent bow-arm belief may have evolved, and very close to my own theory.

The more I read what Art has to contribute to the tech side, the more I realize that he knows his stuff and he can concisely cut through the crap. It is my theory that wrist positions, along with being over-bowed or having a too short draw-length, or all of the above, are possibly how the "bent-arm" method belief began. I also agree with Ragsdale.

However, other than how Art has explained why he personally needs to use a bent arm, and what degree of bend he uses, I wonder how many learning shooters or shooters wanting to try different methods, believe that some degree of bend in the bow is a must for proper shooting form, but do not know exactly how much bend they are suppose to have, and/or whether the bend is suppose to be horizontal or vertical?

Also, so far I don't believe I have read where anyone is being criticized for using a bent arm method.