ExoTrick #12 – Beautiful combo with handstand and split
Exotic trick with heels, will help to spice up your Exotic routine!
Overview
About This Lesson
Want to add a beautiful, eye-catching handstand moment to your Exotic routine?
In this lesson, Polina breaks down an elegant Exotic combination that connects a handstand with a split, showing you how to move through the sequence with control and make the final shape look clean and expressive.
You’ll first see the full combination and then work through it with detailed explanations, technique cues, and practical tips to help you understand the setup, transitions, and body positioning.
The goal is not only to complete the trick, but to make it feel smooth, confident, and ready to use in your own choreography, freestyle, or performance.
Before You Start
This lesson assumes that you’re already comfortable supporting your body weight in handstand-style positions and have enough flexibility to safely work toward the split shape shown in the combination.
If you’re still building the strength, balance, or confidence needed for handstands, start with the Arm Balances lesson first and come back to this combination when you’re ready.
What you’ll learn
Course program
5 modules
See the complete ExoTrick first so you understand the movement, timing, transitions, and final shape.
Learn how to approach and organize the handstand portion of the combination with better control.
Break down how to move from the handstand into the split shape smoothly and confidently.
Connect the individual elements into one continuous Exotic combination.
Refine the combo with Polina's technique cues and tips for cleaner lines, smoother transitions, and more confident execution.
What’s included
One payment. Lifetime access, including future updates to the program.
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Your instructor
Polina Zueva
Polina Zueva is a professional pole dance and Russian Exotic instructor with years of teaching, performing, and competition experience across Russia, Vietnam, and the United States. Throughout her dance career, she has performed on stage, competed successfully, and earned competition wins and podium placements — bringing real performance experience into everything she teaches.
Over the years, Polina has worked with a large number of students through regular classes, private coaching, workshops, and masterclasses. Many of her students have gone on to perform and compete themselves, earning awards and podium placements and developing the confidence and skills to take their dancing beyond the studio.
Polina’s training is built around the individual dancer rather than a one-size-fits-all formula. Her lessons focus on clear progressions, detailed technique, fluid transitions, musicality, body control, and expressive movement, allowing students to progress at their own level while developing a style that feels natural and personal to them. The same approach is built into her online courses, giving dancers structured, experience-based training they can follow at their own pace.
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Questions
This lesson is best suited for intermediate and more experienced students who already have some familiarity with handstand or arm-balance positions.
You should already have the strength and basic skills needed to safely practice handstand-based movements. If you're not there yet, take the Arm Balances lesson first.
A comfortable split will help you achieve the fullest version of the shape, but you can work within your current flexibility and focus on clean positioning and control.
The combination is taught as an Exotic trick designed to be performed in heels, but you are free to learn and practice it without them first.
Yes. You'll need access to a pole and enough surrounding space to practice comfortably.
Absolutely. The combination is designed as a piece of movement vocabulary that you can incorporate into your own choreography, freestyle, or routine.
Yes. You can pause, replay, and practice along with the lesson at your own pace for as long as your course access remains active.
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