Milton Keynes, United Kingdom (PressExposure) July 03, 2010 -- On the 22nd of August 2009, the Pogopalooza 6 an extreme pogo sports competition concluded at the Schenley Plaza, Pittsburgh, and featured the Flybar Pogo and many other extreme pogo stick brands. Extreme pogo sports athletes came all the way from the United States, Canada, and England to show off their pogo stick tricks over a 3-day exhibition tour from the 19th to the 21st. After which, they competed each other for world record titles.

The SBI Enterprises was the very first to invent the pogo stick in 1918 and has since then stuck to the original design. Kris Maher from the Wall Street Journal reported that the pogo stick "had barely changed between the time they were first patented and sold in the U.S. in 1919 to about 2000. Throughout the 1990s, the increased popularity of extreme sports consequently pushed people into using this traditional pogo stick to perform professional stunts. Later on, extreme pogo athletes established XPogo, an online community that fostered extreme pogo talents. Despite gained reputation of extreme pogo sports, the pogo stick unchanged design limited their stunts.

It was already late 1990s that physicist Bruce Middleton had a breakthrough when he replaced the steel springs of the pogo stick with "heavy duty rubber bands which could send a rider weighing up to 250 pounds five feet off the ground Maher says. This reinvention is now popularly known as the Flybar Pogo.

Enthusiasts soon caught up to the new trend in extreme pogo, sporting their very own Flybar Pogo since Pogopalooza began in Lincoln, Nebraska back in 2004. Fred Gryzbowski, one of the world best pogo-stickers known to compete in Pogopaloozas, attests that with the Flybar Pogo, he could "leap over a minivan At the Pogopalooza 6, Gryzbowski competed against 60 other riders with his Flybar Pogo. Maher reports that at the event "a few hundred spectators gathered in the hot sun to see jumpers compete for honors including Most Bounces in a Minute which recorded at 221, thus an approximate 4 jumps per second.

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