I started playing the violin when I was 9. I also had a pogo stick, albeit not one of the shiny rubber- and plastic-coated ones that are now in vogue but a creaky all-metal version that would ...

And he did it on the Vurtego, perhaps the greatest pogo stick the world has ever seen. “It’s the wand that makes the magic possible,” Smith, now 26, told me this summer.

Until now. “The Only Underwater Pogo Stick” was designed for use in the pool, and allows you to easily “perform a variety of waterborne stunts as you bounce off walls or bottoms.” ...

Though pogo sticks have been around for a century, extreme pogo began about 20 years ago when a couple of people decided to take action sports into new territory, Xpogo co-founder Nick Ryan said.