High top-high heel or low top-low heel? Depends on the type of skating you want to do! The power of your stride comes from the ball of your foot. The high heel puts your weight onto the ball of your foot when you’re standing up in a casual stance. For the low heel you have to bend your knees and be in more of an “active stance” to get the weight onto the ball of your foot to get the power in your stride. So what does all of this mean??! It means it easier to start skating in high heeled skates since you can easily have power in your stride while learning. However! You can literally learn and become very skilled in any style of skate, like the low heel skates! People are very capable of quickly adapting to what is under their feet which is why you can skate on any kind of skate if you’re a beginner all the way to pro!