Squat form check

[Vivestra]

Is my squat technique good enough here ?

Shared album - H M - Google Photos

The movement feels good with this technique and depth (any lower than this, and my hip flexors get stretched in a bad way and will be sore for days). I have long femurs.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Do not post above-parallel squats on these forums.

[Vivestra]

Fixed here, notice the wider stance width (the video has 3 different angles): Shared album - H M - Google Photos

I've read my proportions are not good for the low bar squat (but they're great for deadlift).
Some people say I should switch to the SSB squat.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Depth is correct here, still showing some knee slide. I think you should just learn how to squat correctly and gain about 40 pounds of bodyweight. Whatever a SSB squat is will not help either one of thee things.

[Jason Donaldson]

Fixed here, notice the wider stance width (the video has 3 different angles): Shared album - H M - Google Photos

I've read my proportions are not good for the low bar squat (but they're great for deadlift).
Some people say I should switch to the SSB squat.

There are arguments out there for using a safety squat bar, but body proportions are not a good one. Anthropometry can make you proportionately better at some lifts than others, but that alone does not constitute a reason to change the exercises themselves. You just progress all the lifts at the rate they can go.

As to form, this video from Dr. Sullivan may help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD2ZDJf6vMY

Also, avoid the temptation to lift your gaze and look in the mirror as if the mirror were the face of Medusa herself. A specific visual target can help with this - my usual recommendation is a brightly colored water bottle, towel, or similar, against the corner between the wall and floor in front of you.

[neilc1]

Fixed here, notice the wider stance width (the video has 3 different angles): Shared album - H M - Google Photos

I've read my proportions are not good for the low bar squat (but they're great for deadlift).
Some people say I should switch to the SSB squat.

I think you over did the wider stance, think heels under your armpits, too hard to keep knees over the toes line like that,

[Satch12879]

What is the problem with your proportions exactly?

[deborahlebl]

What is the problem with your proportions exactly?

The real problem is, people are looking for excuses as to why they can't do the hard work and the right thing.

[Jason Donaldson]

What is the problem with your proportions exactly?

The real problem is, people are looking for excuses as to why they can't do the hard work and the right thing.

A cynical man might also surmise that those with a range of specialized, expensive devices in their facilities might have a vested interest in ensuring that their clients think they need such devices... And especially so when that's simpler than learning to teach those clients proper movements with the regular barbell whatever their anthropometry...

You know, on the off chance that you could find such a cynical person...

[IlPrincipeBrutto]

I've read my proportions are not good for the low bar squat.

This might be true, but from there it doesn't follow that you should be unable to perform an acceptable low bar squat. It might require a bit more effort, it might result into an action that is not 100% textbook, but it will still be a proper squat.

Between "bare minimum" and "perfection" there is a fairly big range that, imho, can accommodate all but the most extreme and peculiar morphologies, yours included.

Get under the bar, be patient and be committed; you are going to make it.

IPB