Arm Balances with Pole
Build strength and correct technique for shoulder stands, forearm stands, and handstands with multiple pole grips.
Overview
About This Lesson
Want to feel stronger and more confident in your pole arm balances?
In this lesson, Polina focuses on building the strength and correct technique needed for shoulder stands, forearm stands, and handstands with the pole.
You’ll work with twisted grip, true grip, and cup grip while practicing a variety of drills and different ways to approach each movement.
This lesson is designed to help you build a stronger foundation for inverted arm-balance skills so you can approach more advanced Exotic tricks and transitions with better control.
How to Use This Lesson
Work through the drills gradually and focus on clean technique before increasing difficulty. Repeat the variations that are most useful for your current level.
You can return to this lesson regularly as a strength and technique practice while developing your shoulder stands, forearm stands, and handstands.
What you’ll learn
Course program
5 modules
Build strength and technique for shoulder-stand positions with the pole.
Practice drills designed to develop more control and confidence in forearm stands.
Work on strength, positioning, and technique for handstands with the pole.
Explore different grip options and learn how they are used within arm-balance practice.
Use multiple drills and different variations to reinforce technique and build the strength required for the skills.
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
The lesson focuses on shoulder stands, forearm stands, and handstands with the pole.
Patreon specifically lists twisted grip, true grip, and cup grip.
No specific prerequisite is listed on Patreon. The lesson includes strength-building drills and different ways to practice the skills, so it can also be used while developing toward stronger arm balances.
Yes. The lesson specifically teaches arm balances with the pole.
Yes. Several of Polina's ExoTrick lessons recommend Arm Balances first for students who are still developing the strength or skills needed for handstand-based tricks.
Yes. Patreon lists the lesson as streaming video access, so you can return to it and repeat the drills at your own pace.
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