The thread title says “possess” rather than “own”, and while I was on jury duty a few weeks ago I learned that to legally possess something it doesn’t have to belong to you, you just have to have control of it for a period of time.
I never had my own pogo stick, but in middle school I got to use one during P.E. class sometimes. So based on the legal definition I did possess one.
I thought it was fun. In fact it was one of my favorite things to do during P.E.
Wasn’t up to me, but if it was I would have liked to have had more P.E. time for pogo sticking.
I got the hang of it pretty quickly. I was never able to do any amazing tricks, but I could bounce around for a fairly long time without falling.
Just did a quick google search. Lots of choices for pogo sticks these days. Mine was one of the cheaper ones with an internal spring. I always thought the one my friend had with the external/visible spring was better for some reason.
Turns out there is something called Xpogo now. Maybe they’ll make it an Olympic sport someday.
Yes I did have one. It was enervating, which I guess is fun in a way. I was disappointed that it didn’t go boing boing, like in cartoons.
I pogoed every evening before or after supper. I don’t recall what my record was, but it was over a thousand boings.
Very good indeed. I could pogo ‘no hands’. But I only did it in the cellar, on cement. You really can’t bounce effectively on anything but a very hard surface, which means pogoing down the street is not always possible, anyway you look like a dork.
There’s nothing amazing about riding a pogo stick. You just do it, then when you grow up and get too heavy, you stop.
There was talk of unicycles. Not long ago I was sucked into a rabbit hole called electric unicycles. By the time it was over, I was damn near firing off a check for one of the things, and I’m an old man in poor physical health.
We(me and my two brothers) had both stilts and a pogo stick as kids. They lasted about a week before being dismantled and the parts cannibalized for use in stick fighting.
There were no feats of daring-do or record breaking with them, such as going up or down stairs or long distances.