"Flipped classroom" is a teaching mode that has attracted increasing attention and is widely used in subject teaching. Discuss the practical significance of its application in physical education teaching in higher vocational schools and propose application strategies such as establishing a new teacher-student relationship, effectively utilizing, and developing teaching resources, creating new teaching assessment methods, and increasing teacher training, to lay a solid foundation for the reform of higher vocational physical education teaching. The flipped classroom teaching mode can help students internalize knowledge, thereby promoting students' growth; it has positive significance for physical education teaching in higher vocational colleges. It can improve students' ability to understand and accept through personalized teaching mode, thereby promoting the rapid formation of sports skills, but also can shorten teaching time and improve teaching efficiency.