ExoTrick #11 – Forward flip-like jump!
Forward flip-like jump in heels to spice up your Exotic routine!
Overview
About This Lesson
Want to add a more explosive, unexpected accent to your Exotic routine?
In this lesson, Polina breaks down a forward flip-like jump designed to bring more energy and variety into your Exotic movement vocabulary.
You’ll see the full trick first and then work through detailed explanations, technique cues, and practical tips to help you understand how the movement works and how to practice it with more confidence.
The lesson is taught as an Exotic trick in heels, with a focus on making the movement feel controlled, dynamic, and ready to use in your own choreography or freestyle.
Before You Start
This is a short, focused trick lesson for dancers who are comfortable with dynamic Exotic Pole movement and are ready to explore a more acrobatic element.
Practice in a clear training space, progress at your own pace, and repeat the breakdown as many times as you need before adding the trick to a full routine.
What you’ll learn
Course program
4 modules
See the complete forward flip-like jump first so you understand the overall movement and final result.
Work through the trick step by step with detailed explanations of the key movement pattern.
Focus on the details that help make the jump feel more organized, controlled, and confident.
Use Polina's practical cues and tips to refine the trick and make it easier to integrate into your own movement.
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 dancers who are already comfortable with dynamic Exotic Pole movement.
The trick is taught as an Exotic movement designed to be performed in heels. You can first explore the mechanics without heels if that helps you feel more comfortable.
Yes. You'll need access to a pole and enough clear surrounding space to practice the movement comfortably.
Absolutely. The lesson is designed to give you a dynamic movement element that you can incorporate into your own choreography, freestyle, or routine.
Yes. The Patreon product is provided as streaming video access, so you can return to the lesson and practice along with it.
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