30 min conversation between a few guys including Kelly Starrett and Lon Kilgore on whether or not you should squat with your knees out, beyond the vertical plane of your foot.
I think the takeaway was "knees out" is a cue, not a style of squatting. The cue is an attempt to create stability and torque in the hips, however there is no universal cue that applies to every athlete. The panel agreed that there is a point where your knees can be "out" too far, though Kelly wouldn't agree that it would put you in an injurious position. He rattled off a bunch of stats and numbers which was annoying and didn't add to the conversation when he addressed the claim that more people were experiencing knee pain when squatting in a knees out fashion.
ugh, k-starr....from an engineer's perspective, it seems like knees out of plane to the outside could carry just as much risk of injury as knees out of plane to the inside (assuming a more or less symmetrical support tissue structure). you're still subjecting the joint to weird loads that it's not designed to handle.
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