ExoTrick #9 – Kicks-and-Jump
Dynamic kicks and jump in heels to spice up your Exotic routine!
Overview
About This Lesson
Want to add more energy, sharp accents, and dynamic movement to your Exotic routine?
In this lesson, Polina breaks down the Kicks-and-Jump combination — a short, powerful Exotic trick that combines expressive kicks with a dynamic jump for a more striking effect.
You’ll first see the complete movement and then work through detailed explanations, technique cues, and practical tips to help you understand the timing, coordination, and transitions.
The combination is taught in heels and is designed to give you another versatile movement element you can use in your own choreography, freestyle, or performance.
Before You Start
This is a short, focused Exotic trick lesson for dancers who are comfortable moving dynamically in heels and want to expand their movement vocabulary.
Practice in a clear training space, work at your own pace, and repeat the breakdown until the kicks, jump, and transitions feel coordinated and controlled.
What you’ll learn
Course program
5 modules
See the complete Kicks-and-Jump combination first so you understand the movement, timing, and overall effect.
Learn how to organize and coordinate the kicking portion of the combination.
Break down the dynamic jump and understand how it connects with the preceding movement.
Connect the kicks and jump into one continuous, controlled sequence.
Refine the combination 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.
More about Polina →Polina’s Russian Exotic workshop was amazing. We can’t wait to have her back!
Polina’s classes are always so much fun, but challenging at the same time.
Polina’s ExoTricks class gave me some real wins. I was able to slowly work through new tricks that I’m still building confidence with.
Polina taught me so many helpful tips and tricks in her workshops.
Such an amazing class — I’m hooked!
Questions
This lesson is best suited for intermediate and more experienced dancers who already feel comfortable with dynamic Exotic Pole movement and dancing in heels.
The combination is taught as an Exotic trick designed to be performed in heels, although you can first practice the mechanics without them if needed.
Yes. You'll need access to a pole and enough clear surrounding space to practice comfortably.
No. This is a focused trick lesson that teaches a specific Kicks-and-Jump combination you can later incorporate into your own choreography or freestyle.
Absolutely. The combination is designed as a movement element you can add to your own choreography, freestyle, or performance.
Yes. The lesson is provided as streaming video access, so you can return to it and practice along at your own pace.
Ready to start training?
Get the structure, the progressions and the plan — and know exactly what you are working on next.
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