Fred Grzybowski has got to be one of the best pogo stick athletes in the world. The tricks he performs on his Flybar pogo stick are both huge and incredible. My favorite trick of his is when he does his double-backflip. It is also very impressive when Grzybowski jumps over automobiles of various types. One wrong move performing a stunt of this type and Fred could be in serious trouble. The mutliple back to back jumps are also impressive. Which of Fred Grzybowski’s pogo stick stunts are you most impressed by?

What is the post stick world record for the high jump?

Well, the record changes all the time, but as of this writing, the pogo stick world record for the high jump is 9 feet 6 inches. The record was set by Dan Mahoney at the Pogopalooza 7 pogo stick competition in Salt Lake City, Utah. The video above shows Dan using his Flybar 1200 pogo stick to jump over a bar set a nine feet six inches and break the world record for the highest jump ever performed on a pogo stick.

Compare this video to just three years ago (2007) when Fred Grzybowskiset the pogo stick world record for the highest jump at just 7 feet six inches. Over the past three years, a total of 2 additional feet has been added to the record. Just imagine where we might be in another three years?

Do you think you could break the pogo stick world record for the highest jump on a pogo stick? How high do you think pogo stick athletes will be jumping in three to five years? My guess is that we will see a pogo sticker jump more than 12 feet into the air at some point in the very near future?

Watch as Fred Grzybowski performs his incredible pogo stick tricks on America’s Got Talent. Obviously, this is an older video, as Fred’s tricks in this video are not nearly as incredible nor as polished as his amazing pogo stick tricks are today. Even though many YouTube commenters seem to believe Fred’s pogo tricks are worth a million dollars, the judges did not. Both Piers Morgan and David Hasselhoff gave Fred Grzybowski and his pogo tricks a red “X”, meaning that what he was doing was not good enough to continue in the contest. However, the judges did seem to think that pogoing could catch on and ven become a new kind of sport. I have a feeling they could be right!