ExoTrick #10 – Forearm Cartwheel
Forearm cartwheel in heels to spice up your Exotic routine!
Overview
About This Lesson
Want to add a striking acrobatic element to your Exotic routine?
In this lesson, Polina breaks down the Forearm Cartwheel — a dynamic Exotic trick performed in heels that can add more impact, variety, and flow to your choreography.
You’ll first see the complete trick and then work through detailed explanations, technique cues, and practical tips to help you understand the movement and practice it with more confidence.
The focus is not only on getting through the movement, but on developing enough control to make the trick look clean, intentional, and ready to use in your own combinations.
Before You Start
This lesson involves supporting your body weight through your arms and forearms and is best approached once you already have a foundation in handstand-style or arm-balance movements.
If you don’t yet have enough strength or confidence for handstands, start with the Arm Balances lesson first and return to this trick when you’re ready.
What you’ll learn
Course program
5 modules
See the complete Forearm Cartwheel first so you understand the movement, timing, and final result.
Learn how to organize your starting position and prepare your body for the trick.
Break down the main movement and understand how to transfer your weight through the arms and forearms.
Connect the setup, cartwheel, and exit into one continuous movement.
Refine the trick with Polina's technique cues and practical tips for cleaner, 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 handstands, arm balances, or similar weight-bearing movements.
You should already have enough upper-body strength and basic arm-balance skills to safely practice the movement. If you're not there yet, start with the Arm Balances lesson first.
The Forearm Cartwheel is taught as an Exotic trick designed to be performed in heels, but you can first explore the mechanics without them if needed.
Yes. You'll need access to a pole and enough clear surrounding space to practice comfortably.
Absolutely. The Forearm Cartwheel can be used as a dynamic movement element in your own choreography, freestyle, combinations, or performance.
Yes. The lesson is provided as streaming video access, so you can return to it and practice along at your own pace.
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