Flynn Nyman can’t practice anywhere without drawing a crowd. After all, a 14-year-old kid backflipping 10 feet in the air with a 15-pound pogo stick between his legs is going to stand out.

FOR A CONFIRMATION AND HAVE NOT YET HEARD BACK. WILKINSBURG, HOME TO OUR WTAE STUDIOS AND THIS WEEKEND THE CENTER OF THE POGO UNIVERSE. THE BEST ON POGO IS COMPETING FOR THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As we jump into the first day of the state fair, we've got all sorts of excitement and education from high flying pogo stick jumps ...

The pogo stick may never upend the wheel as a means of locomotion. But as inventions go, they share something: Once built, there wasn’t a whole lot anyone could seem to do to improve the basic design.

The pogo stick had its heyday in the Roaring Twenties, after Hansburg, its inventor, helped teach Broadway’s Ziegfeld Follies to bounce. The Ziegfeld girls did dance routines on the sticks and staged ...