When Steven Bennett was 12 years old, he waited for his parents to leave the house, grabbed his pogo stick and dragged his mattress into the backyard.
He had his sights set on something extreme – to complete a full backflip on his pogo stick.
“I just thought to myself, ‘this would be awesome if I could do it,’ so let’s go outside and try it,” Bennett said.
He had been performing backflip dismounts – a trick where he does a backflip off of his pogo stick – since the age of nine or 10, but on that day, his attempt at a full backflip on his pogo stick failed.