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Pogopalooza: Extreme Pogo Sticking At The OC Fair

Samantha McDonald |
August 1, 2011 | 1:05 a.m. PDT

Staff Reporter

Pogo-sticking is not just the junior-high gym class activity you remember.  Meet 26-year-old professional pogo-sticker "Wacky Chad," who competed against dozens of other extreme pogo-stickers at the Orange County Fair Saturday as part of the X-Games-style"Pogopalooza": The 8th Annual World Championships of Extreme Pogo. The best pogo stickers from all over the world displayed their most dazzling tricks and their highest jumps. The current world record for the highest jump is 9-feet-six-inches.  

If you are interested in watching-- or even trying-- extreme pogo-sticking, check out Xpogo.org

You can reach reporter Samantha here.     



 

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