Anti-Yo is a yo-yo manufacturer that specializes in high-end aluminum yo-yos and is run by Kiya Babzani and Sonny Patrick. With their first product, the Fluchs, released in December 2004, the company drew a great deal of attention.
The company has made a name for itself in customer service, with Kiya having flown to the UK to meet unhappy customers to see what is wrong with their yo-yos.
Anti-Yo is based in San Francisco, California, with most business meetings taking place at a bar called Zeitgeist. Anti-Yo was considered "dead" by many due to the lack of updates from the company and most of the team members leaving, however the company made a marvelous return in 2011. The yo-yo halves are now manufactured at One Drop's machine shop, and employ the Side Effects axle system.
Yo-yos Produced[]
- Fluchs
- Fluchs 2 (cancelled)
- Eetsit
- Bapezilla
- Gouda
- Buzine$$
- Risky Buzine$$ (polished finish)
- Black Buzine$$ (black hardcoat finish)
- BSP
- YWET
- DRI-YWET
- SLCK-YWET
- Viszilla
- Bapezilla.2
- Kuntosh (cancelled, now a One Drop yo-yo)
- Executive (cancelled)
- Zip Zinger (cancelled)
Team Anti-Yo[]
- Brian Cosky (US)
- Jake Bullock (US)
- Kevin Sullivan (US)
- Philip Lastimosa (US)
- Simon Welch (UK)