Pogo stick

A pogo stick or pogo stick is a game and sports equipment for on - bounce up and down.

The bar has a T-shaped handle at the upper end, two (or more ) metal springs, two footrests, as well as a foot.

Use

The user sets his feet on the footrests while he balances on the bar. Then he jumps or presses the footrests down to compress the spring. When the spring is fully compressed, the user shifts his weight to high jumping. Supported by the recoil of the spring he hops a few centimeters to decimeters far into the air. The process is repeated in order to achieve a bouncing motion. The pogo stick can be controlled by weight shift and is an interesting mode of transport, which is associated with some difficulty.

The use of Pogostabs requires some stamina and balance, to endure long periods of time on it. Usually the bouncy adventure is for a maximum of one minute to end. Experienced users try to perform tricks while jumping and tricks. Being an ideal place for this is suitable urban area with many obstacles. This fun sport called Stunt Pogo and is predominantly located in the USA.

A motorized version is attributed to Claude Shannon.

Medial adaptation

In comics of the 1960s, especially from the Duckburg environment, the Pogostab was often depicted as a means of transportation. While this is theoretically possible, but would be extremely high skill and an immense endurance require. In computer games, the Commander Keen series of Pogostab is used also as a means and as a weapon. Other famous users are the cartoon characters Doctor Snuggles and the Pope from Popetown.

In the 1970s, the dance craze pogo was derived from Pogostab in which the jumping movement is a key element.

Ashrita Furman, the man with the most records in the Guinness Book of Records, has set up with the pogo stick following records:

• Climbing stairs with a pogo stick, June 1999 353 -meter-high CN Tower over 1899 levels (57 minutes and 15 seconds)
• Longest continuous route cracked, June 1997 in the U.S. ( 37.2 km )
• Fastest with a pogo stick cracked Mile, July 2001 in England (12 minutes 16 seconds )
• Longest distance pogo stick jumping under water, August 2007 USA ( 512 meters)
• Fastest juggled on a pogo stick Mile, September 2007 USA ( 23.28 minutes )
• Most jumps rope jumping on a pogo stick in one minute, May 2008 USA ( 178)
• Most pogo stick jumps in one minute, July 2008 USA ( 238)

Name

The name of the Hüpfstabes probably derives from the first letter of the last name of the declarant of the patent Ernst Gottschall and Max Pohlig from that submitted the patent to the Reich Patent Office on March 9, 1920.