Pogo World Records

Martin recited all 50 United States alphabetically while riding on a pogo stick in 20.91 seconds.

Jose Manuel Martin Molina performed 211 BMX back peg pogo hops while facing away from the bike in a parking garage in Ayamonte, Spain. With the handlebars behind his back and the front wheel raised, he kept hopping as he turned across the garage floor. Video review supports his stated count and shows the backwards-facing stance throughout the run. A familiar trick, turned around.

Jose Manuel Martin Molina flips his red BMX upside down in a parking garage in Ayamonte, Spain, stands it on its front end with the back wheel pointing at the ceiling, and climbs onto the pedals. From there he bounces the whole bike off the concrete 27 times in just over nine seconds, then jumps clear and catches the bike before it tips. We counted every hop frame by frame in his single continuous take, and the sound of each landing matches the count. Riding a bike is hard enough the right way up.

Jose Manuel Martin Molina of Ayamonte, Spain stands on the front pegs of his red BMX and pogo hops on the front wheel, rear wheel held high, for 768 hops in an underground parking garage. The low-angle video is a single 5 minute 23 second take with no cuts, and he bounces his way from the far garage door right up to the camera without ever touching down. RecordSetter checked the footage frame by frame and found a steady rhythm of about three hops per second, more than enough to cover his count. Legs of steel, and a garage floor that has seen a lot of rubber.

Jose Manuel Martin Molina of Ayamonte, Spain stands on the front pegs of his red BMX with the bike behind his back and pogo hops on the front wheel 355 times in an underground parking garage. The video is a single 2 minute 11 second take with no cuts, filmed from a low fixed angle in front of a green garage door, and the rear wheel stays in the air until he steps off at the end. RecordSetter tracked the rhythm of the hops across the take, about three per second, which comfortably covers his count. Most riders face the bars for this trick; he does it looking the other way.

Jose Manuel Martin Molina pogo hops on the front wheel of his BMX in a parking garage in Ayamonte, Spain, standing on the front pegs with the back wheel up, then lets go of the bars and turns a jump rope around himself and the bike. The rope comes over his head three times in one continuous take, which matches his count of two skips under the front wheel in our frame-by-frame review. Skipping rope is hard enough with both feet on the ground.

Jose Manuel Martin Molina stands on the front pegs of his red BMX and pogo hops on the front wheel 129 times with his arms held out and his hands off the bars, in an underground parking garage in Ayamonte, Spain. The 49 second video is one continuous take from a low fixed camera: he lets go of the grips about a second in, hops from the far end of the garage all the way to the lens at about three hops per second, and turns side-on at the end with the back wheel still in the air before his hand goes back to the bars. RecordSetter counted the no-hands stretch twice, from the bounce on screen and from the sound of each landing, and both counts match his 129. That is 27 more than his earlier 102 on this record.

Andrew Vanier borrowed his sister's pogo stick, got hooked, and ended up bouncing for more than two hours. His 11,715-jump run is a patient, stubborn kid record: long enough for the camera to change orientation, and still clear enough to show the scale of the effort.