ExoTrick #7 – Back Walkover
Back walkover in heels to spice up your Exotic routine!
Overview
About This Lesson
Want to add a fluid acrobatic transition to your Exotic routine?
In this lesson, Polina breaks down the Back Walkover — a visually striking trick that can bring more variety and impact to your Exotic movement vocabulary.
You’ll first see the complete trick and then work through detailed explanations, technique cues, and practical tips to help you understand how the movement connects from start to finish.
The trick is taught in heels and can be used as a dynamic element in your own choreography, freestyle, or performance.
Before You Start
This is a focused acrobatic-style Exotic trick lesson, so practice in a clear training space and work at a pace that feels controlled and comfortable.
Repeat the breakdown as many times as needed before trying to connect the full movement smoothly.
What you’ll learn
Course program
5 modules
See the complete Back Walkover first so you understand the overall movement and final result.
Learn how to organize the beginning of the movement before progressing into the walkover.
Work through the main movement step by step with detailed explanations and technique cues.
Connect the different phases of the Back Walkover into one continuous sequence.
Refine the trick with Polina's practical tips for cleaner 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 dancers who are comfortable exploring dynamic and acrobatic-style Exotic movement.
The Back Walkover is taught as an Exotic trick performed in heels. You can first explore the movement without heels if that helps you practice more comfortably.
The course is part of Polina's Exotic Pole lesson collection, so access to your normal pole-training space is recommended.
No. This is a focused trick lesson teaching the Back Walkover as an individual movement you can later use in your own combinations.
Yes. The Back Walkover can be used as a dynamic element within your own choreography, freestyle, or performance.
Yes. Patreon lists the lesson as streaming video access, so you can return to the video and practice along at your own pace.
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