When Smith landed successfully on the other side, he had set the Guinness World Record for highest-ever jump on a pogo stick. And he did it on the Vurtego, perhaps the greatest pogo stick the ...

As a kid, pogo-sticks always looked like fun, but were inevitably disappointing to use. US-based Vurtego, however, designs pogo-sticks for adults and they're a bit more on the extreme side.

What you need to know: The highest-quality pogo stick on the market. What you’ll love: The Vurtego pogo stick is built to last for years. It can handle virtually every weight above 75 pounds ...

Tone Staubs (far right) uses a bike pump to boost the air pressure in his Vurtego pogo stick for maximum bounce. Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet Xpogo tries to nudge this along by taking its stunt team ...

MISSION VIEJO — Vurtego continues to bounce toward success. Months after the company launched, its pneumatic pogo stick will be sold on Costco.com and at high-end boutique Hammacher Schlemmer.

Working part time out of a home garage, they began assembling their Vurtego sticks by hand. Today, armed with a world record for highest pogo-stick hop — 6 feet — Vurtego sells through such ...

There is a growing culture around the powerful adult pogo sticks. Vurtego is one of the companies that are manufacturing these special pogo sticks that can let you jump higher than the height of ...

“Sales have almost doubled each year. We have a hard time keeping them in stock,” says Brian Spencer, whose family owns the pogo-stick company Vurtego. “This is the first sport that was developed ...