These work well for lower range pricing of pogo sticks. I teach elementary PE and I have several of these models for my older elementary student's (even as low as 2nd graders who are more experienced use them). These compared to the lower weight version provide more bounce for more advanced kids or my heavier kids. I'm 6' 0" and 180 lbs. and these actually allow me to demonstrate (with minimal bottoming out). I've had advanced students weighing as little as 60 lbs. using these pogo sticks just fine and they can actually sky fairly high (a foot high or so :) ).

I have two rough and tumble boys. These seem like they will hold up to their destructive ways. My soon to be 9 year old is 69 lbs one of the tallist kids in his class. and although it was a stiff start, and it's a bit high for him (the handle bars come to his chest) he has been hopping a bunch in our basement (too cold and icey outside) my 11 year old is just at the lower end of weight for this at 80 lbs. Handle bars come just above his waist. They will likely be bouncing all over the neighborhood on these in the spring and summer. Perfect for my energetic boys on days I don't want to try to keep up with them on their mountain bikes or trick bikes at the park...

This is a great pogo stick. My 8 year old (70 pound) son received it for Christmas and was bouncing without any issue. This is his second Flybar pogo stick - he outgrew the smaller model. The spring is stiff, but if you are good at, and familiar with pogo sticking, you shouldn't have any problem. He loved how much higher he could get! Only trouble with him being on the smaller side of the size requirements is he's not tall enough to bounce hands free like he could on the smaller stick. But time will take care of that :)

Extremely stiff, unusable. A 250 man tried it and it barley budged. The kid who is 11, skilled pogostick lad, couldn't even use it. Contacted company. Got a quick responce and she demanded proof of purchase and a video. I had to make a video??? Are you kidding me. Don't they have a video on how to loosen the tension? I have bought fly bars for kids before, no prob, but this one is too stiff

I purchased this pogo stick for my 9-year-old child who had been asking for one for a while. The pogo stick arrived quickly-within a couple of days of ordering. The box was dented slightly, but there didn't appear to be any damage to the product. The pogo stick is ready to go right out of the box... no assembly required, which as a busy parent... I appreciate very much! I took a couple of jumps on it and realized that Whoa!!... my center of gravity and balance has changed a bit from when I was a kid! It feels like once you've ridden a pogo stick, you'll always remember how- kind of like that "riding a bike" thing. But... it took me a little longer to adapt to the feeling of the pogo stick than what I remember from my childhood. Partly, that might be because this pogo stick is definitely a higher quality "toy" (really more a piece of exercise equipment) than what I had as a kid. This is a good thing! The stick is heavy, feels like it is mostly metal with no obviously flimsy/breakable parts. It is squeeky when used- but I think that is expected with pogo sticks.

One thing that I really appreciated was a tip written in the instruction book that said that the pogo stick is going to be especially "tight" (ie- it takes a lot of weight/effort to get it to bounce) for the first few uses. Apparently this is because they make sure the spring is good and tight so that it doesn't just loosen up over time and start to bottom-out. It was helpful that they put this disclaimer in, though putting it into the product description might have been more helpful as knowing that ahead of time might have steered me towards a different model that would be a little easier for my 9-year-old to operate. When they say a weight range of 80-160 pounds... it really means closer to the upper end of that weight range. My little one is barely over the 80lb mark, and will have to wait a year or two probably to be able to have enough strength to get the spring to compress when jumping. Still, the product is so well made that I plan to keep it and perhaps my husband and I can use it a bit to loosen the spring up some more so that our child will be able to use it sooner.