A standing martial-arts kick where the heel whips across the target, and one of tricking's core kicking vocabulary words. The cleanest way to understand it is as a round kick played in reverse: twist the body, chamber the knee, extend the leg just beyond the target, then pull the heel across as the hips pivot and rechamber to finish where the kick started. Easy to do, hard to do well — quality depends on a strong hip flexor to lift and control the leg, dynamic hip flexibility to move through the big stretch of the kick, and a stable base leg underneath it all. It is also one of the most expressive kicks in tricking: it works at any height from a low sweep to head level, swung loose like a hammer or stabbed out and sharply rechambered, and it feeds directly into pop 180 hooks, touchdown hooks and countless kick combinations.
Key cues
- Twist the body and chamber the knee high
- Extend the leg just past the target line
- Pull the heel across as the hips pivot
- Rechamber the knee before setting down
- Stay balanced on a strong base leg