As a kid, pogo-sticks always looked like fun, but were inevitably disappointing to use. US-based Vurtego, however, designs pogo-sticks for adults and they're a bit more on the extreme side. Its new V4 ...

Brian Huckstep jumps on his Vurtego V3 pogo stick in a parking lot off Broadway Tuesday, October 11, 2011 in Cape Girardeau. Huckstep learned of the air spring pogo stick from the television show ...

Some kids fell off so many times they gave up, tossing the pogo next to the dinged hula hoops and unicycle deep in the garage. Others just outgrew it, gaining enough weight as teenagers to snap the ...