With the word fly in the name, it better do what it implies. Put me on that bar and let me feel like I'm free, unimpeded, independent and wild. The Flybar provides you with that freedom for as long as you choose to attain it or until your body gives out. I guarantee you will slow down before the Flybar does. I have not been on a pogo stick in about 20 years, our kids and the children in the neighborhood gazed upon the Flybar and I as some sort of aliens. However, once they realized what this foreign (to them) machine could do; it was too late. They were excited, inquisitive and wanted to jump on it right away as well. I had to politely advise them that safety was important and they needed to first learn all about it and it would take practice.