STEPHANIE FARR The Philadelphia Inquirer, via AP Nicolas Patino, an extreme pogo competitor, demonstrates a wall plant at Thomas Paine Plaza in Center City Philadelphia on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. (Tim Tai/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP) PHILADELPHIA — Nic Patino didn’t start pogoing because it was cool. Who would? “It was strange,” he said. “Everybody was confused.” But when Patino’s dad died in a motorcycle accident a month before his 13th birthday, he pulled an old pogo stick out of his family’s garage and put all of himself into it. Life, he couldn’t control, but the bounce, that, he could master.