Jumping stick
A jumping stick or pogo stick is a play and sports device for jumping up and down.
The rod has a T-shaped handle at the top, two (or more) metal springs , two footrests and a foot.
use
The user places their feet on the footrests while balancing on the bar. Then he jumps or pushes down the pegs to compress the spring. When the spring is fully compressed, the user shifts their weight to jump up. Supported by the spring jumping back, it hops a few centimeters to decimeters into the air. The process is repeated to achieve a hopping motion. The jumping stick can be steered by shifting your weight and becomes an interesting form of locomotion, but it is associated with some difficulty.
Your use of Pogostabs requires some stamina and sense of balance to persevere to long periods of time on it. The hopping adventure is usually over after a minute or less. Experienced users try to perform tricks and tricks while jumping. An ideal place for this is an urban area with many obstacles. This fun sport is called stunt pogo and is mainly practiced in the USA.
A motorized version is attributed to Claude Shannon .
Media adaptation
In comics from the 1960s, especially from the Entenhausen area, the Pogo stick was often depicted as a means of transportation. Although this is theoretically possible, it would require extremely high levels of skill and endurance. In the computer games of the Commander Keen series, the pogo stick is also used as a means of transportation and as a weapon. In Plants versus Zombies, zombies use the pogostick to overcome obstacles that are otherwise difficult to conquer, but this is not possible in reality because the jump height is not sufficient. Other famous users are the cartoon characters Doctor Snuggles and the Pope from Popetown .
In the 1970s, the name of the fashion dance pogo was derived from the pogo stick, in which the hopping movement is a central element.
Ashrita Furman , the man with the most records in the Guinness Book of Records , has set the following records with the jumping stick :
- Climbing stairs with a jumping stick, June 1999 in the 353 meter high CN Tower over 1,899 steps (57 minutes and 15 seconds)
- Longest contiguous jump route, June 1997 in the US (23.2 miles)
- Fastest mile jumped with a jumping stick, July 2001 in England (12 minutes 16 seconds)
- Longest underwater jumping stick, August 2007 USA (512 meters)
- Fastest mile juggled on a jumping stick, September 2007 USA (23.28 minutes)
- Most jump rope jumping on a jumping stick in one minute, May 2008 USA (178)
- Most jumping stick jumps in one minute, July 2008 USA (238)
Surname
The name of the jumping stick is probably derived from the first letters of the surnames of the applicants for the patent, Max Po hlig and Ernst Go ttschall, who presented the patent to the Reich Patent Office on March 9, 1920.
