I cruised over to the Vans Downtown Showdown this past Saturday night at Paramount Studios, just in time to check out Creature's satanic ceation. If you were there, or watched the live feed, you know that the accult assult stop was the second to last.

Yeah, I was late, but it wasn't my fault, it was that god damn 101! If you don't live in Southern California, and don't know what the 101 is, it's also known as the Hollywood freeway, and on Saturday nights you might as well call it the Pissed-Off-Bad-Night freeway. Why? Because your not going to move for hours, you're going to get pissed off, and have a bad night.

Oh yeah, and by the way it wasn't just cold, it was fucking cold! The wind was whipping through all the alleys of the studio and it was down right torture for a cold weather wuss bag like myself.

Like expected the Girl and Toy Machine crew's were killing it. Girl won last year, and Toy Machine has been on the podium every year of the event has been held, but coming out left field this year was Blind and Jani Laitiala.

If your not familiar with the format, each team gets to design a stop, which is skated by everyone for like 20 minutes. From what I remember, Girl had the Three Bump Dump, which was three pyramids in a row. Black Label had the Dive Bar, which is self explanatory. Creature had a pentagram, and Foundation had the Lunar Eclipsey Hubba.

Some sick shit went down on the Foundation stop: Brain Anderson - three broken boards and a tre flip down the star, David Reyes - noseblunt around the moon-shaped-ledge, Alex Olson - f/s 3 the star, and Mike Mo - switch b/s flip the star.

Blind took overall team, Jani took the pro, and Jamie Towncarney took the am with a back blunt across the Black Label bar. This is such a cool concept event, can't wait till next year.

All photos by MORINformed.