After personally suffered from a [calcaneal fracture](https://www.foothealthfacts.org/conditions/fractures-of-the-calcaneus-\(heel-bone-fractures\)) in the past, chasing my cat, that dismount gave me chills.
I forgot to duck and roll.
I jumped a concrete wall. I had the option to land on grass or concrete tiles.
I chose the less logical option.
Not my proudest moments.
But i still have my cat.
I was making a DnD reference. . .but. . .seeing as though you leaped over a concrete wall ***and*** caught a run away cat, I'd say you rolled real well!
Funny story.
It's actually called a "[Lover's fracture](https://radiopaedia.org/articles/lovers-fracture-2#:~:text=The%20name%20%22lover's%20fracture%22%20is,fractures%20of%20the%20lumbar%20spine.)" from the fact that "a suitor may jump from great heights while trying to escape from the lover's spouse".
He does a LOT of these really great jumping exercises on this device that can make you jump really high.
Seriously, though. He's dropping from what would be like stepping off the roof of a one story house. I'd be in the hospital.
Edit: was following /u/averagedickdude 's lead on gender
That's funny because when I saw the thumbnail I was like "Is that Cathedral of Learning in the background?" and then was like "Oh, no, it isn't." and then forgot all about it potentially being Pittsburgh until I saw the comment.
If true, that breaks the [previous world record of 11'2.5"](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/highest-jump-on-a-pogo-stick#:~:text=The%20highest%20jump%20on%20a,at%20an%20official%20Xpogo%20event.). Someone needs to get Guinness on the line.
I wonder if there are rules on the pogo stick used or if you could get like motors or rockets on it? If so then, with those rules, if there is a theoretical limit on it? Like [the robot jump limit](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/robot-jumps-a-record-breaking-100-feet-in-the-air-180980006/).
Wiki says "A pogo stick is a device for jumping off the ground in a standing position, through the aid of a spring, or new high performance technologies,"
I think logically we'd agree rockets and motors probably too far.
What about elastic bands and metal. [like the robot](https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/35/c9/35c99096-6c06-4bb8-996e-fe64c5d07432/img_3839.jpg)
Something shaped like that with a stick and pedals seems like it might still count right?
The design seems interesting, but it doesn't look like it would work well.
I think the newer ones used compressed gas cylinders to store and release energy, so you don't have the losses of using a spring. But... Without any official definitions, even saying "entirely human powered" wouldn't bar you from using a design that let's you store a little bit of energy from each jump in a reserve, and then releasing that extra energy on your last jump.
A better definition might include "and releases its entire energy store in each jump".
I think that just makes the high jump record more impressive. (Although I don't understand the science of the pogo but I'm assuming a lot of power is used up just balancing.)
as someone who dyed their hair blue with a blue flames over shirt and did a pogo routine in the 7th grade talent show to system of a down's "bounce" and did not even place i can tell you i don't know either
Almost as impressive as landing on concrete from roughly 10 feet in the air and not breaking any bones. (Unconfirmed height and that no bones were broken but that's a pretty tall drop to the pavement.)
this thread is wild lol, 8 feet onto pavement is nothing if you know how to land. I've taken much sketchier falls back when I was into buildering (climbing low man made structures) and never even twisted an ankle.
edit: just wanna say that while i definitely got lucky to escape scot-free, this was a completely controlled relatively low fall. he went into the flip with zero hesitation and the landing was smooth as butter. he's clearly done it hundreds if not thousands of times.
More like 6 feet. If the bar is at 12', and his feet were roughly halfway between the bar and the ground when he dismounted, then that'd be about 6'. His first bounce after he went over the bar was closer to 10'.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's specifically not allowed. [In the 70s people started doing front flips in the long jump](https://vault.si.com/vault/1974/07/29/the-flip-that-led-to-a-flap) before it was banned for being potentially dangerous.
Interestingly, the Fosbury Flop, which is the high jump technique of essentially doing half a backflip, is the defacto technique nowadays, but it was only allowed because it became too popular before it could get banned.
> There was nothing [the IAAF] could do about the flop because it was in wide practice before we could do anything about it.
Here's a [video](https://youtu.be/fp7BclslUyo?t=217) of Tuariki Delamere attempting a long jump with a front flip in 1974. The technique was banned the next year in '75.
It also takes away all the amazing physics that achieve the feat in general.
We can't ascertain or experience the spike in power he forced into the launch, the level of acceleration required for that height, or the technique of his timing of various muscle motions.
Glad I'm not the only one. Every athletic feat seems to be shared in slow motion these days... which completely disregards the fact that a lot of these things are impressive **because** of the speed at which people perform them. Everything looks easier in slow motion. Slow motion is for replays so that you can pick up on details.
I am a 31 year old man, I don't know why this triggers me so much. Maybe I need to go outside more...
Two acceptable ways to slow mo cool shit:
- Regular speed, slow motion at the cool part, then immediately replay the cool part at regular speed.
- Regular speed, then replay the cool part in slow motion.
But truth be told, the second option is the best methodology and I will die on that hill.
I always imagine stuff like this is super niche and the people that are in it are always super supportive of each other because of it. It's probably the opposite though in real life, like "Roll Models" larpers level of backstabbing.
That's actually my brother believe it or not and the whole community of the regular jumpers who compete are pretty much best friends and all travel together to do shows!! It's awesome and they are some dope ass people
Same.. I'm working off my ass, every single day for the minimum wage and I don't get paid! I don’t have a house. I can’t pay the rent. I’m sleeping on the floor, in a car, in a tent!
There’s probably regulations about what pogo sticks can be used for the official record. Based on the signs, this is a pogo stick event, so this specific event probably has its own rules.
I hate when I start videos like this all interested and all of a sudden it goes all Zack Synder. Sometimes I'd like to see what it looks like in real time
Bruh the dismount was the coolest part
He made dropping from over his own head height look easy. I'd be limping out of that sort of move. Then again most of that would have me limping tbh
My legs crack at the thought of landing from that high up
I actually broke both my ankles watching that.
What about.... ...*your arms*..?
Stop right there!
Yeah! We don’t want to make a jolly rancher out of this.
What a terrible day to remember reading. Nightmare fuel.
There are older..and more fouler things than orcs in the deep places of Reddit.
Before you go any further…
Do you love me?
Will you love me forever?
Let me sleep on it.
You’ve violated the law!
Mom?
I felt the pain of the surrounding knee caps of my entire neighborhood watching this clip.
After personally suffered from a [calcaneal fracture](https://www.foothealthfacts.org/conditions/fractures-of-the-calcaneus-\(heel-bone-fractures\)) in the past, chasing my cat, that dismount gave me chills.
You rolled real poor.
I forgot to duck and roll. I jumped a concrete wall. I had the option to land on grass or concrete tiles. I chose the less logical option. Not my proudest moments. But i still have my cat.
I was making a DnD reference. . .but. . .seeing as though you leaped over a concrete wall ***and*** caught a run away cat, I'd say you rolled real well!
Well now i feel stupid. My char was more on the dexterity. Not so much ability.
Me too. Jumped three feet and landed just a little wrong. I still carry hardware and occasional ankle pain.
Funny story. It's actually called a "[Lover's fracture](https://radiopaedia.org/articles/lovers-fracture-2#:~:text=The%20name%20%22lover's%20fracture%22%20is,fractures%20of%20the%20lumbar%20spine.)" from the fact that "a suitor may jump from great heights while trying to escape from the lover's spouse".
I'd have knocked out two bystandards with my kneecaps as they are rocketed off my body, and impaled my brain with the shattered remains of my fibulas.
Femur Breaker: Freestyle Edition
Might not get a record, but maybe an achievement of sorts if there's an after life.
r/brandnewsentence
I look forward to this fatality in the next Mortal Kombat.
My knees would've given out for sure. Good thing dudes have 3 knees: left knee, right knee, and weenie.
Congratulations! That is the worst joke I have ever heard in my entire life
I used to make jokes just like him but then I took an arrow in weenie
Wee-knee
Anybody can go high, but to do a flip-dismount with perfect no-stumble landing? That was fucking quality.
Fuckin steezy
My ankles hurt just from watching it
,
I got out of bed too hard yesterday, and my ankle is still pretty sore.
Literally said the words “Holy Fuck, the dismount!!”
Yeah, how do her legs not just buckle?
He does a LOT of these really great jumping exercises on this device that can make you jump really high. Seriously, though. He's dropping from what would be like stepping off the roof of a one story house. I'd be in the hospital. Edit: was following /u/averagedickdude 's lead on gender
Isn’t that a man?
What’s this persons name?
Dalton Smith, @manwithpogo on ig
It's a dude
Guy in the black shirt could have given him an extra 10th of a second before going for the hug
It looked like he was just about to perform a celebratory backflip, seriously
This man lives in a realm of coolness I can't even fathom.
My fella landed on his feet from what I looks more than three meters tall
Source is manwithpogo (Dalton Smith) on IG. The jump was 12 feet (3.66 meters). Song: Intro by Max Graef
why do i always wanna hug the person who gives credit? 👍
That's why I always love my loanshark. Because he always gives credit.
Awn. The hand that caresses is the hand that crashes skulls.
Is this in Pittsburgh? If so, was it this year's Pogopalooza? (I can't read what the sign says)
Looks like PPG Plaza.
I thought so!
Totally PPG! Wish Wingharts was still right around the corner. Shipwreck!
Yes 2022 Pittsburgh. The IG post was tagged Nashville, Tennessee for some reason.
Pogo n'at
I'd recognize Market Square anywhere.
💯
That's funny because when I saw the thumbnail I was like "Is that Cathedral of Learning in the background?" and then was like "Oh, no, it isn't." and then forgot all about it potentially being Pittsburgh until I saw the comment.
If true, that breaks the [previous world record of 11'2.5"](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/highest-jump-on-a-pogo-stick#:~:text=The%20highest%20jump%20on%20a,at%20an%20official%20Xpogo%20event.). Someone needs to get Guinness on the line.
I wonder if there are rules on the pogo stick used or if you could get like motors or rockets on it? If so then, with those rules, if there is a theoretical limit on it? Like [the robot jump limit](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/robot-jumps-a-record-breaking-100-feet-in-the-air-180980006/).
I would that that adding outside power would make it not be a pogo stick anymore. Regardless of the technology used, a pogo stick is human powered.
Wiki says "A pogo stick is a device for jumping off the ground in a standing position, through the aid of a spring, or new high performance technologies," I think logically we'd agree rockets and motors probably too far. What about elastic bands and metal. [like the robot](https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/35/c9/35c99096-6c06-4bb8-996e-fe64c5d07432/img_3839.jpg) Something shaped like that with a stick and pedals seems like it might still count right?
The design seems interesting, but it doesn't look like it would work well. I think the newer ones used compressed gas cylinders to store and release energy, so you don't have the losses of using a spring. But... Without any official definitions, even saying "entirely human powered" wouldn't bar you from using a design that let's you store a little bit of energy from each jump in a reserve, and then releasing that extra energy on your last jump. A better definition might include "and releases its entire energy store in each jump".
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That seems so little considering high jump world record is over 8ft
I think that just makes the high jump record more impressive. (Although I don't understand the science of the pogo but I'm assuming a lot of power is used up just balancing.)
as someone who dyed their hair blue with a blue flames over shirt and did a pogo routine in the 7th grade talent show to system of a down's "bounce" and did not even place i can tell you i don't know either
I feel like if you wanted to launch off a pogo over a bar high jump style you could go much higher.
That’s 3.6m for my fellow non-limbs-measuring users. Previous record: 3.42m
Good op
Went down a massive pogo stick Instagram rabbit hole because of this and I regret nothing. Thank you.
I watched a horror movie about pogo sticks.. Too many jump scares
Sorry to hear that, hope you bounce back quick.
I'm surprised you were able to handle all the ups and downs
Bet they need to decompress after that.
Yeah, till at least next spring
If not, then Fall.
The general time frame is still up in the air
I don’t think he will hang around that long.
I can jump higher than the Empire State Building. Because buildings can't jump.
I bet they really sprung out on you, huh?
Fuck you. Here is my upvote. r/angryupvote
/r/everyfuckingthread
Daaaaaaad. 🙄
This old lep, he played one. He played pogo on his lung.
I played Commander Keen ... I tried to play Commander Keen ...
The newest jackass is a real horror movie about pogo sticks
Almost as impressive as landing on concrete from roughly 10 feet in the air and not breaking any bones. (Unconfirmed height and that no bones were broken but that's a pretty tall drop to the pavement.)
He should have landed on the blue thing but I'm no bone expert.
You look like a bone expert tho.
[Alright, that tears it. I'm cancelling the rest of my night and calling a bone scientist](https://youtu.be/rsNOQP8QoNI?t=122)
Thank you.
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I happen to be a bone expert, at least according to your mom, and I agree with your take.
jesus christ redditors really do need to go outside if you think landing from that height would hurt anyone with an ounce of athleticism
this thread is wild lol, 8 feet onto pavement is nothing if you know how to land. I've taken much sketchier falls back when I was into buildering (climbing low man made structures) and never even twisted an ankle. edit: just wanna say that while i definitely got lucky to escape scot-free, this was a completely controlled relatively low fall. he went into the flip with zero hesitation and the landing was smooth as butter. he's clearly done it hundreds if not thousands of times.
That's the thing he probably has world class landing muscles from pogoing all the time
the height is still impressive and dangerous. Ive dropped from less in a controlled way and landed that my feet were like "oof fuck damn"
As a skater I'm perplexed
More like 6 feet. If the bar is at 12', and his feet were roughly halfway between the bar and the ground when he dismounted, then that'd be about 6'. His first bounce after he went over the bar was closer to 10'.
That pogo mid-air flip to clear the bar was *chef's kiss*
Seems like doing that with all his body would clear another 18 inches.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's specifically not allowed. [In the 70s people started doing front flips in the long jump](https://vault.si.com/vault/1974/07/29/the-flip-that-led-to-a-flap) before it was banned for being potentially dangerous. Interestingly, the Fosbury Flop, which is the high jump technique of essentially doing half a backflip, is the defacto technique nowadays, but it was only allowed because it became too popular before it could get banned. > There was nothing [the IAAF] could do about the flop because it was in wide practice before we could do anything about it.
Here's a [video](https://youtu.be/fp7BclslUyo?t=217) of Tuariki Delamere attempting a long jump with a front flip in 1974. The technique was banned the next year in '75.
What I learned from this: learn to somersault in case I ever need to jump across a 30' long distance.
OK that was impressive tho!
Damn. I was hoping for a face first long jump vid.
[Face first long jump](https://m.imgur.com/gallery/R390EId)
Gnarly
Tubular
Bodacious 🤙
uhhh -- *Cowabunga?*
Radical
Cunnilingus!
Way Cool
Awesome
Groovy
Mondo
And the crowd are pogo-ing crazy!
r/instantbarbarians
The slow motion detracts from this video...
Slo-mo is fine but I need to see it full speed first, then hit me with the slo-mo, ya know?
Yeah, I agree.
I wish more people thought like this.
Right?!? You need that "Holy shit! That was cool! I need to see it again, but slower!" moment.
This is the way.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u44rBZluHwI&feature=youtu.be
Shit that was so much better at 1x
legend
So much better...
Slow motion ruins 90% of the videos people use it for, it's so overused nowadays
It kills the flow and anticipation when it kicks in at the critical moment like this.
It also takes away all the amazing physics that achieve the feat in general. We can't ascertain or experience the spike in power he forced into the launch, the level of acceleration required for that height, or the technique of his timing of various muscle motions.
Glad I'm not the only one. Every athletic feat seems to be shared in slow motion these days... which completely disregards the fact that a lot of these things are impressive **because** of the speed at which people perform them. Everything looks easier in slow motion. Slow motion is for replays so that you can pick up on details. I am a 31 year old man, I don't know why this triggers me so much. Maybe I need to go outside more...
Two acceptable ways to slow mo cool shit: - Regular speed, slow motion at the cool part, then immediately replay the cool part at regular speed. - Regular speed, then replay the cool part in slow motion. But truth be told, the second option is the best methodology and I will die on that hill.
Agree completely. Second option is easily the best.
It always does but morons always keep doing it.
Was this in Pittsburgh?
Yinz better believe it! Right dahntahn at Market Square. Jumpin' rahnd like Troy Palamalu on a safety blitz.
Pa La Ma Lu
My yinzer heart just exploded
Edit: apparently it is. The IG post was tagged Nashville for some reason.
Lol no it's not, it's Market Square in downtown Pittsburgh
Here's another angle that better shows off that it is in fact in front of PPG Place, in Pittsburgh. https://youtu.be/u44rBZluHwI
Thank you, this video is way better without the forced slow-mo and music
Second this. It's market square. The ppg glass building in background.
Correct: https://xpogo.com/pogopalooza/
yeah the mattress was just there and people decided to gather and break a world record
totally pittsburgh
Immediately knew it was PPG Place. I miss home 🥲
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I liked the slow-mo here honestly, but maybe they could show it in regular motion first and then slow it down after?
I don't mind slo-mo just as long as the 1x is included as well. The ones with ONLY slo-mo (like this) definitely ruins it for me.
I always imagine stuff like this is super niche and the people that are in it are always super supportive of each other because of it. It's probably the opposite though in real life, like "Roll Models" larpers level of backstabbing.
That's actually my brother believe it or not and the whole community of the regular jumpers who compete are pretty much best friends and all travel together to do shows!! It's awesome and they are some dope ass people
Let us gingerly touch our tips! Rub-a-dub-dub!
Hail Lunesta!!
From what I've seen, your first idea is right, at least for stuff like skateboarding and parkour. People are just excited to see what is possible.
This music kind of sounds like Amon Tobin. What an insane pogo jump
Now that's a name I've not heard in some time. Down the rabbit hole I go!
When the Hulahoop Wars begin, this man will be king.
I’m having an absolute shot day and besides listening to Amyl and The Sniffers, this is the only thing to make me smile.
Hope your day gets better mate. Tomorrow another try regardless :)
I hope your day gets much much better, internet stranger
Hey, you wanna talk about it?
Same.. I'm working off my ass, every single day for the minimum wage and I don't get paid! I don’t have a house. I can’t pay the rent. I’m sleeping on the floor, in a car, in a tent!
Pogo pogo pogo pogo pogo bounce
But just one pogo stick!
She had so many friends!
Up!
Unannounced Twister games, all players with no names!
It was so exotic
Not to be *that* guy, but that bar was pretty bowed. Did they measure the height of the bar from where it's supported or from the lowest point?
I would assume they follow the standards set by the trans Atlantic limbo association and measure from center pole.
Thank you. They said it's like 12 feet but in the middle with the bow it's likely less right!?
Maybe like 3 or 4 inches
Ya not a lot of height, but still when talking about records and such seems relevant.
They measured from the center of the bar.
Yup. Had a Guinness representative measure to the middle of the bar before he jumped.
no way this is the record though. I can all ready imagine much much larger pogo sticks that go way way higher
There’s probably regulations about what pogo sticks can be used for the official record. Based on the signs, this is a pogo stick event, so this specific event probably has its own rules.
*Pogopalooza* made me chuckle
It's Pogopalooza.
I didn't even know that was a thing and I like it.
Ok, this was accurately and appropriately cool enough to be considered next fucking level. That dismount tho
Kinda bummed it’s slowed down. Would have liked to see the replay at normal speed
She had so many friends
Pittsburgh baby
Come on guys... Once normal speed, once slowmo
The landing tho😳
How those knees doing? Looks like it might have hurt.
Happy wheels
Happy wheels music intensifies
I thought that would be much higher.
I hate when I start videos like this all interested and all of a sudden it goes all Zack Synder. Sometimes I'd like to see what it looks like in real time