ExoTrick #13 – Handstand combo with a kip
Exotic trick with heels, will help to spice up your Exotic routine!
Overview
About This Lesson
Looking for a trick that instantly adds more impact to your Exotic routine?
In this lesson, Polina breaks down a dynamic handstand combination with a kip, showing you how the elements connect and how to make the transition feel smooth rather than rushed.
You'll first see the complete combination and then work through it with detailed explanations, technique cues, and practical tips you can apply while practicing.
The goal isn't only to complete the trick — it's to make it look intentional, confident, and ready to use in your own choreography or freestyle.
Before You Start
This lesson assumes that you're already comfortable supporting your body weight in handstand-style positions.
If you're still building the strength, balance, or confidence needed for handstands, start with the Arm Balances lesson first and come back to this combination when you're ready.
It’s a great fit if you enjoy detailed technical breakdowns and want to learn a combination that can flow naturally into your own choreography, freestyle, or performance.
What you’ll learn
Course program
5 modules
See the complete ExoTrick first so you understand the movement, timing, and final shape.
Learn how to approach and organize the handstand portion of the combination.
Break down the dynamic part of the trick and understand how the movement connects.
Combine the individual elements into one continuous sequence.
Refine the combination with Polina's technique cues and 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 ExoTricks class gave me some real wins. I was able to slowly work through new tricks that I’m still building confidence with.
I can’t wait to come back and train with Polina again!
Polina definitely challenged me — and I loved every second of it!
Polina’s classes are always so much fun, but challenging at the same time.
Questions
This lesson is best suited for intermediate and more experienced students who already have some familiarity with handstand or arm-balance positions.
You should already have the strength and basic skills needed to safely practice handstand-based movements. If you're not there yet, take the Arm Balances lesson first.
The combination is taught as an Exotic trick designed to be performed in heels, but you are free to learn without them.
Yes. You'll need access to a pole and enough surrounding space to practice comfortably.
Absolutely. The combination is designed as a piece of movement vocabulary that you can incorporate into your own choreography, freestyle, or routine.
Yes. You can pause, replay, and practice along with the lesson at your own pace for as long as your course access remains active.
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