Flybar is a developed pogo stick that uses newly patented rubber spring elements instead of the traditional steel spring of the original pogo, according to www.flybar.com.

Call first started using a Flybar three months ago when he won the stick as an incentive to sell more security systems with his summer employment at Pinnacle Security.

“I just started messing around on [the Flybar]. Ever since the first day I got it, I wanted to do a back flip,” Call said. “I started trying different tricks and e-mailed the pictures to www.flybar.com and the company [said they] wanted to sponsor me.”

Since then, Call has traveled to San Francisco and Las Vegas to demonstrate tricks at Flybar exhibitions and will be going to Woodward in Santa Barbara, Calif., to train with Andy MacDonald, partner designer of Flybar. But Call couldn’t wait to master the back flip.

“I started out doing a back flip dismount, where I landed on my feet, then I started trying it with the stick,” Call said. “The first time I tried [the back flip] I landed in a foam pit. It was pretty embarrassing.”

It wasn’t long until Call made significant progress. Oct. 8 was his first documented attempt with friends Cache Allen, a senior from Hacienda Heights, Calif., and Justin Allred, a sophomore from Hidden Valley Lake, Calif., present. After an hour without any progress, Call decided to try it again another day.

Oct. 11 was that day.

After a few failed attempts, Call stuck the landing, continuing into a second back flip. Among those present to witness the stunt were Andrew Curtis, a sophomore from Temecula, Calif., and Michele Hutchings, a junior from Fallon, Nev.

“It felt so good to land [the back flip],” Call said, “I was so close before and I knew I’d get it today.”

“I’ve known Chewy for awhile, and he’s pretty crazy, but seeing him do a back flip on a pogo stick was pretty sick,” Curtis said.

Hutchings agreed. “I’d already seen him do a trick off a five-foot ledge so I was positive he was going to land it today.”

Even Margo Decker, a manager of Idaho Elite Gymnastics, was impressed. “This is the most exciting thing to happen since we opened our gym a year ago,” she said.

Four to six weeks after Oct. 11, when the claim was submitted, Call will know his official standing with the Guinness Book of World Records.

After becoming the first to land a Flybar back flip, Call intends to continue trying stunts, possibly even attempting other world records.

“I love being the first to ever attempt these tricks,” Call said, “With different variations and more tricks, I think Flybar may be the next big thing at the X-Games.”