The first ever DS night attendees. Los Angeles, CA Edit by Mikathee Tran @Mikathee Words by Keanu Villaruel @Keeks Photos by Kris Cabal @Kristoffer Cabal Tuesday, August 22nd 2017 was the first ever Downspike Night at the LACMA urban lights in Los Angeles, CA. The Downspike team took over the biweekly LA Lights session to bring the community together for one awesome event featuring mini games, exclusive DS swag, Colin’s beard, and the premiere of the Downspike Community Edit 2! Local slayers around the LA area, Bay Area, and our good friends from KendamaOC attended the event and left with tons of prizes provided from our partners Terra, KROM, LunaTac, Lobros, and of course, Kendama USA. DS night was blessed with TONS of special guests. Alex Smith flew down from Vancouver just for the event. Matt Ballard popped in to show off his new crustache. Kris Cabal from REZ kendama brought some of his masterpieces, EJ Williams provided the laughs and Shane from kendama OC was slaying as usual. One of the more memorable contests was a "big cup" contest, with Alex Smith calling out increasingly difficult variations of the humble big cup (Behind the back, under the leg, candlestick grip, etc). Attendees were able to sign up for DS on a tablet or on their phone, and everyone wore name tags repping their DS username. There was a new security guard working who was a little flustered by the event, but it went off without a hitch. There were more laughs than there were yank spikes, which is always a good thing. Here is a brief list of the mini-game winners: Kendmonds Jr. wins the scooping goldfish contest Steezy Steve and Maui win the first and second round of Alex Smith’s unique tricks contest Moonglau wins the earth turn consistency contest Maui wins the lighthouse flip consistency contest Alex Hirota wins the contest for the Terra LBB Alex Smith made the trek down from Canada. This marks the first of many Downspike Nights to come! let us know in this thread what city you want us to hit next. #DSGS: Why weren't you at DS night? Did your dog eat your homework? Did you have Jury duty? Did both of your legs fall asleep? Tell us in this thread why you didn't make it to DS night. The best excuse wins this Krom Noia and some swag from downspike.
I was planning on coming. I had a plane ticket from Georgia all the way there. I had packed my bags. I was Almost completely prepared to go when disaster struck. My dog, a tiny Yorkshire terrier, started barking loudly. The Yorkshire terrier also known as Fred was looking in the sky. I rushed to the window and gazed at the sky. My mouth dropped, I was horrified. What I saw is almost unbelievable. Bryan scaglines beanie was terrorizing my city. It was huge, the beanie was at least 90 feet tall and 30 feet across. Chaos was breaking loose as the beanie scooped up people never to be seen again. I ran from my house. I was barely safe. The beanie had gotten my house with Fred trapped inside. Single tear ran down my cheek I couldn't dwell on the dead I had to push forward and survive. I stumbled about, my heart filled with rage, I knew I had to survive for the sake of Fred. I looked into the sky and shook my fist at the giant beanie. What was I going to do most of my townspeople had already been obliterated and my best friend, Fred, was no longer with us. I ran to the rubble that was my house and search for my kendama collection. I found them, all three of them. This was my ammo I decided I attached one to my waist band and out the other two in my hands. This was my ammo I decided I attached one to my waist band and out the other two in my hands I yelled to the beanie in the sky, "come at me bro". The beanie appear to be mocking me. Right then and there I decided I needed to destroy this beanie. I screamed and jumped colliding with the beanie in midair. I was inside . the beanie had thought he had won but little did he know my Kendamas were too powerful for him. I started spinning around nailing the inside of the beanie with the Tamas. I could see my fellow townspeople terrified sitting huddled in a corner. I knew I had to do it for them. Oh and Fred. I started to stab the beanie with the spike of my kendamas. I was thankful for Downspike and the Facebook kendama community for encouraging me to superglue my tip. The added spike strength was doing the trick the beanie was faltering. The towns people inspired by my bravery jumped into the fight. We were doing it, the beanie was going to fall. I saw out of the corner of my eye Fred jump and sink his teeth into the beanie. He had done it, Fred had landed the final blow. We thudded to the ground. Everyone found their way out of the beanie and cheered for they were still alive. The townspeople picked me up and started chanting my name. Timothy! Timothy! Timothy! We found a lighter soon after and burned the dead beanie. So basically saving Roswell Georgia from Bryan scaglines beanie is the reason why I couldn't attend downspike night. I'm really sorry guys and totally wish I could have come :/ maybe next time Bryan will have a hold on his beanie and not let it terrorize cities.
Because I broke my right wrist the day before and couldn't drive there or play dama. Plus I can't drive. And I don't play dama (jk I do play dama)
Well I just moved to the west coast. But I'm in Seattle so probably the farthest away from LA that you can be on the west coast, pretty much could have got a plane with Alex on the way down from Canada. Hope I can make it one day! Always thought the lights look like such a dope jam spot!
I had left two days before, to make the. 306 mile run on foot, but on the way I kept looking at the eclipse and ended up in Mojave with no eyes.
My excuse is because my mom had a religious meeting that piped up last Minute and she didn't tell me until an our before the event.
i got dumped and decided to take out my sadness and anger by working out at the gym. didn't want to bring bad vibes.
...the police stopped me over for having doughnuts in the driver's seat. Police : Do you know why i stopped you over, son? Me : *gesturing over to the box of doughnuts* 'CAUSE YOU CAN SMELL IT!