# Some yoyo innovation questions

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**Created:** [June 9, 2015, 3:02pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/some-yoyo-innovation-questions/75123 "2015-06-09T15:02:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 3:02pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/some-yoyo-innovation-questions/75123/1 "2015-06-09T15:02:20Z")

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So who invented the unresponsive yoyo, and what year was in first used I competition? Also, when was horizontal yoyoing first seen? Who did it?

What other ground breaking yoyo techniques can you think of?

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**Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 3:31pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/some-yoyo-innovation-questions/75123/2 "2015-06-09T15:31:25Z")

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Unresponsive yoyoing was basically the result of responsive yoyos response wearing out. Over time, players found advantages to this and utilized it.  
Horizontal yoyoing is a bit tough to say as technically the “UFO” is respectively a horizontal trick and I’m not sure when that trick was created. As for string tricks, earliest I can find is sideways brain twisters in 98.

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**Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/some-yoyo-innovation-questions/75123/3 "2015-06-09T15:57:15Z")

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Unresponsive play really started developing around 1999. In contests binds were not permitted for compulsaries which were a vital element of getting to finals in major contests so players still needed to manage response. By 2001 it became a significant part of contests and by 2002 it was standard in 1a. Ironically it wasnt until 2006 that yoyos were sold unresponsive stock.

Yup, brain twisters 98.

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**Author:** ![yoyojoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e99b99/32.png) [@yoyojoe](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyojoe)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 4:11pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/some-yoyo-innovation-questions/75123/4 "2015-06-09T16:11:11Z")

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I remember people saying the superyo renegade was sort of the start of unresponsive yoyos. I don’t know from personal experience that’s just what i have heard.