Preface: If you like static stretching and it works for you, keep doing it.
This episode I breakdown if static stretching is really helping us, in my opinion as well as a lot of research says, it doesn't. It doesn't improve performance, warm us up, reduce injury, improve/increase range of motion, etc
It's really good for cramps, but that's about it. I talk about why that is and use this article for reference:
https://www.painscience.com/articles/stretching.php#sec_flexibility