Stretch exercises specific to drop knees

I love to use drop knees whenever I can, but I understand that they can be a little rough on the knee joints. Years ago I was rotating into a particularly wide drop knee and felt a little pop in my right knee (the one I was dropping). I never felt any pain, but afterwards my right knee always felt “weird”, like it was a little weaker than before, especially when I’m doing a drop knee. Then I stopped climbing for a few years due to some other things in life, so the weird feeling in my knee went away completely. Now that I’ve started climbing again and using drop knees more and more, I’m also not as flexible as when I was in my 20s. I’m wondering if there are any safe stretches specific to the position and movement of a drop knee to (hopefully) prevent any knee injuries? Hurdle stretch seem to put the body in a similar position as a drop knee, but I read somewhere that this stretch may actually do more harm than good. Any thoughts?

Probably hip flexor stretches will help with the turn down since that's the part that's rotating when you do a drop knee. There are plenty if you just google them. Then I'd work on building the muscle around your knee with exercises like leg lifts and curls. Everyone trains the downward force into our feet, don't forget the lateral movement so those parts of the muscles and stabilize your knee.

About six months ago I adopted this active stretching routine before each climbing session. I think it's quite beneficial. Take a look at the Drop knee with same side reach stretch. The whole routine takes about five minutes and feels like it gets me warmed up nicely.

Some great thoughts so far. Keep them coming! I do a stretch routine every other day or so, based mainly on some yoga poses. I usually do the stretches statically after I go jogging. I've never done dynamic stretches as a warm up, but seems like it would work.