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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. ....
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Nic Patino didn’t start pogoing because it was cool. Who would? TOP STORIES Life, he couldn’t control, but the bounce, that, he could master. “When you’re doing this, you have to be absolutely present, so it allowed me to do away with my pain, that grief, and those emotions,” Patino, 23, said. “The pogo stick saved me.” And then, the pogo stick showed him the world. At 16, Patino joined the premier pogo stunt team, Xpogo, and ever since, he’s been traveling the globe, performing death-defying tricks at NBA exhibitions in China and at velvet-walled theaters for anonymous billionaires in the Seychelles islands. ....