The official record for the highest jump on a pogo stick is 9ft 7.5in by Biff Hutchison (USA)
5. …though Hansburg said that ‘Pogo’ was the name of a Burmese girl he had seen using a crude version of the pogo stick.
6. The sport of Extreme Pogo, or Xpogo, was introduced around 1999 using poles that can reach around 10 feet.
7. The official record for the highest jump on a pogo stick is 9ft 7.5in by Biff Hutchison (USA).
8. The record for the most consecutive jumps on a pogo stick is 206,864 by James Roumeliotis (USA).
9. When Enoch Powell was health minister in 1962 he demonstrated the healthy benefits of the pogo.
10. Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols claimed to have invented the ‘pogo dance’ around 1976.
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