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An adult holding a pogo stick A high-performance pogo stick as used in "Xpogo" A pogo stick is a vehicle for jumping off the ground in a standing position—through the aid of a spring, or new high performance technologies—often used as a toy, exercise equipment or extreme sports instrument. [1] It led to an extreme sport named extreme pogo ...
Pogo (revived as Walt Kelly's Pogo) was a daily comic strip that was created by cartoonist Walt Kelly and syndicated to American newspapers from 1948 until 1975. Set in the Okefenokee Swamp in the Southeastern United States, Pogo followed the adventures of its anthropomorphic animal characters, including the title character, an opossum.
Extreme Pogo is an action sport which involves riding and performing tricks on extreme pogo sticks, defined as such by their durability and potential for height. It draws from influences of other action sports such as skate, BMX, Parkour and more, integrating the use of obstacles and performance of tricks.
Pogo stick, a toy used for jumping up and down with the aid of a spring Extreme Pogo , an action sport on specially designed "extreme" pogo sticks Pogo ball , a toy similar to a pogo stick, based on a rubber ball
Wally soon learned that he could play two and even three trumpets at the same time. That was strange enough, but Wally began doing it while jumping on a pogo stick, to the total amazement of his audiences. In 1950 he formed the band "Wally & the Dill Pickles". Wally continued playing for over half a century.
The air spring within a Vurtego pogo stick allows riders to pump the pogo stick up to their preferred air pressure in order to jump. The more air pressure that is pumped into the pogo stick, the stiffer the spring becomes. The same Vurtego pogo stick can be used by a 75 lb kid or a 300 lb fully grown adult, simply by adjusting the air pressure.
Pogo Joe is an action video game for the Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit computers written by William F. Denman, Jr. Oliver Steele, and Steven Baumrucker and published by Screenplay in 1983. The game is a variant of the 1982 arcade video game Q*bert .
Walter Crawford Kelly Jr. (August 25, 1913 – October 18, 1973) was an American animator and cartoonist, best known for the comic strip Pogo. [2] [3] He began his animation career in 1936 at Walt Disney Studios, contributing to Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Dumbo.