This is not your father’s pogo stick. Unlike the spring-driven toys many children use to bounce up and down, an extreme pogo stick can propel you over 8 feet into the air, leaving plenty of time for ...

Some kids fell off so many times they gave up, tossing the pogo next to the dinged hula hoops and unicycle deep in the garage. Others just outgrew it, gaining enough weight as teenagers to snap the ...

In the more than eight decades since a Russian immigrant named George B. Hansburg introduced the pogo stick to America, the device had scarcely changed: a homely stilt with foot pegs and a steel coil ...