page_title: Extreme Pogo
section_title: Classic sticks
hierarchical_section_title: Extreme Pogo / History / Classic sticks
caption_attribution_description: English: Three Xpogo (w:Extreme Pogo) practitioners midair during a flip, in Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.&lt; br /&gt; Faces in audience have been digitally blurred.
context_page_description: Extreme Pogo or Xpogo is an action sport which involves riding and performing tricks on specially designed "extreme" pogo sticks. These pogo sticks have the potential for jumping over 3 meters of height. Xpogo can be seen in athlete exhibition teams, Xpogo content on sites such as YouTube, and the annual Pogopalooza: The Xpogo World Championship Series.
  Xpogo competitions have begun in countries outside of the USA. An Xpogo commercial was run by Nike during the London Olympics. Xpogo athletes were included in the 2014 Rose Parade in Pasadena, California. The vast majority of Xpogo athletes are male and between the ages of 10 and 25.
context_section_description: From 2000 to 2004, pockets of Xpogo athletes began to emerge around the United States, and other countries such as the Netherlands, inspired by Xpogo.com.  During this time there were no Xpogo sticks, only traditional steel spring sticks that could be purchased at established retailers. Each pocket of jumpers took their own names and made associated websites to help define themselves against the larger Xpogo community. These groups included Team Xpogo, Team Hyper Pogo, Pogo Cult, Rittman Pogo, Grand Theft Pogo, Say No To Park, and the largest group, The Pogo Squad, from York, PA.
  As each of these groups developed and motivated other individuals around the country to begin bouncing as well, a core group of tricks were created that served as the building blocks for all trick innovation to come. A series of grabs, stalls, spins, and wraps utilizing the two foot pegs, two handlebars, and the frame of the pogo stick became the commonly executed tricks. Simple descriptive names such as "One-Foot Peg Grab" or "Under The Leg Bar Spin" were used to describe some tricks, while others received more specialized names such as "Malcolm X" (180 no-foot peg grab) and "Candy Bar" (one leg between the handlebars while jumping). Other tricks are related to BMX and skateboarding tricks such as "Can-Can" and "Heel Clicker."
  Prior to the advent of social media sites such as YouTube and Facebook, the majority of the communication and media sharing among extreme pogo enthusiasts occurred on Xpogo forums where, by 2004 there were 50–100 dedicated users and many more casual or “silent” users. Due to the continued growth of the online community and the sport as a whole, member Dan Brown decided to hold an event called Pogopalooza, where some of the top individuals in the sport could come together in person and hold a miniature competition and exposition of the sport.  In the summer of 2004 Dan Brown hosted Pogopalooza 1 in a church parking lot in Nebraska where about seven members of the Xpogo community appeared. While the event was small and only attracted friends and family, it set the precedent to hold an annual event bringing together extreme pogo athletes from around the US, and subsequently in other countries.
caption: An extreme pogo exhibition in 2017.
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