{"id":218045,"date":"2026-06-13T03:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/218045\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T03:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:43:12","slug":"pogopalooza-bounces-back-to-pittsburgh-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/218045\/","title":{"rendered":"Pogopalooza bounces back to Pittsburgh this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPogopalooza is back in Pittsburgh.A high-jump competition was held in Market Square downtown as the world championships of pogo kicked off Friday.This weekend&#8217;s events also include the tech competition, best trick, big air freestyle qualifiers and finals, and a kids &#8220;bounce off&#8221; for ages 15 and under. You can catch the action Saturday and Sunday at the Xpogo headquarters on Franklin Avenue in Wilkinsburg.&#8221;The energy is great. Everyone loves it here,&#8221; said Dalton Smith, a seven-time champion. &#8220;It&#8217;s pretty much the only place on the planet that we can run into people who are like, &#8216;Oh, are you guys the pogo guys?&#8217; And of course, yes, we are, so we just love it here in Pittsburgh. It feels like home.&#8221;This is the ninth year in a row that Pogopalooza is being held in Pittsburgh. Click here for a schedule and information on all the events.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tPITTSBURGH \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Pogopalooza is back in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>A high-jump competition was held in Market Square downtown as the world championships of pogo kicked off Friday.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend&#8217;s events also include the tech competition, best trick, big air freestyle qualifiers and finals, and a kids &#8220;bounce off&#8221; for ages 15 and under. You can catch the action Saturday and Sunday at the Xpogo headquarters on Franklin Avenue in Wilkinsburg.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The energy is great. Everyone loves it here,&#8221; said Dalton Smith, a seven-time champion. &#8220;It&#8217;s pretty much the only place on the planet that we can run into people who are like, &#8216;Oh, are you guys the pogo guys?&#8217; And of course, yes, we are, so we just love it here in Pittsburgh. It feels like home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is the ninth year in a row that Pogopalooza is being held in Pittsburgh. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xpogo.com\/pogopalooza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here for a schedule and information<\/a> on all the events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pogopalooza is back in Pittsburgh.A high-jump competition was held in Market Square downtown as the world championships of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[95275,95270,5609,24376,4327,95271,24438,73,75,74,95273,95269,1837,95274,2832,39307,95272],"class_list":["post-218045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-action-saturday","tag-big-air-freestyle-qualifier","tag-event","tag-franklin-avenue","tag-friday","tag-good-trick","tag-guy","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pogo","tag-pogopalooza","tag-sunday","tag-tech-competition","tag-weekend","tag-world-championship","tag-xpogo-headquarters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}