A 10-year-old girl from Alexandria has set a kids’ world record for the longest time continuously jumping on a pogo stick.
Del Ray resident Lily Youngblood learned how to use a pogo stick on Oct. 6, 2025. Just three days later, she set the world record in her age range for the longest time jumping on one — a distinction recognized by Canada-based Kids World Records.
Lily’s record, a total of one hour and seven minutes of jumping, was set using a vintage pogo stick borrowed from Lily’s friend, Joe Blackburn. She leaned into the 6-7 craze with her record and plans on breaking it this spring by attempting two straight hours of non-stop jumping.
“I told my friends [about the record], but I didn’t tell the boys in my class, because they go crazy over 6-7,” she said. “After doing 67 minutes, my legs felt like Jello. And then the next day, my legs to my waist hurt, and then I couldn’t jump for a week.”
Lily wasn’t that good on the first day she tried jumping on a pogo stick, but got the hang of it the next day, she said. She soon wondered whether there was a record for pogo stick jumping for someone her age.
“It turns out that the record was 49 minutes,” Lily said. “I was like, ‘That’s easy. I just need to work harder.’ That same day I beat it, but nobody recorded it.”
“The thing is, with me when I put my mind to it, I need to do it,” she added.
After school on Oct. 9, Lily saw that another girl set a new world record of 55 minutes. She decided she wanted to beat the boys’ record of 1:05:30.
Before her record-setting attempt, Lily said she meditated and then, with help from her parents and friends, started jumping to the beat of Taylor Swift songs. An iPad was set up to record the feat.
“Halfway through, at around 30 minutes, you don’t feel like you’re doing it anymore,” Lily said. “Like, you’re just bouncing, and you almost feel like you can bounce forever.”
Lily’s mother, Laura Engel, said her daughter has always marched to the beat of her own drum.
“Lily’s always been an adventurous kind of daredevil,” Engel said. “When she sets her mind to something, she’s very dedicated to the cause.”
What’s next for the ambitious jumper? Lily said she next wants to break the 14:13 record for the upside-down bar hang.
“Most people say I’m a monkey,” she said. “I think I can beat that.”
