Carhartt WIP Presents: Snacks In Progress — 2025 World Tour

There is a distinct energy to a skate tour video. Not “we got an Airbnb in Paris for ten days and this is what we filmed,” but a genuine sprawling tour — more along the lines of lightning-in-a-bottle magic first brought to the world by landmark projects like the DC Super Tour and Harsh Euro Barge. Those videos created a vibe that every crew of skateboarders ripping around a continent has been chasing ever since, even if they are too young for those projects to have been part of their formative years. It’s all in the spirit they instilled.

We teamed up with our friends at Carhartt WIP and “Giddy” series architect, Romain Batard, to bring you “Snacks In Progress: The 2025 World Tour.” The only caveat is, that we didn’t actually go on tour — we just managed to compile every bit of outtakes, water bucket fiascos, European #spotporn, B-roll, unseen and maybe-worth-seeing-again footage from the past ~year’s WIP trips to create a fun companion piece ahead of whatever summer travels you might have lined up. Features a lot of QS favorites. Hopefully, it feels like a tour, or at least inspires you to go on one with your buds ;) Shout out Ragers Inc.

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S.F. in Budapest — Rios Crew + Loophole Wheels’ ‘PURÓ’ Video

📷 Photo via Zach Chamberlin

While discussing recent travels with a skater who could be described as occupying your-favorite-skater’s-favorite-skater territory, this particular individual happened to mention the tough time he had skating in Budapest, Hungary. Before I could even say it, he interjected with something along the lines of: “Those Rios Crew spots are spots for the Rios Crew.”

This was meant in the most complimentary way imaginable. This city-defining crew that has reigned over Budapest’s spots for over a decade had sharpened its sights and approaches in such a fine-tuned way that the shit they skate is largely unnavigable to the visiting skater.

But some skate crew link-ups are written in the stars.

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Covering Fashion & Pants Became Impossible Once Skaters Began Dressing Like Fashion Icon Tim Duncan

We here at QS HQ are often suggested topics beyond the typical “post my video.” One of the most common suggestions is a story about pants. Lots of suggestions for stories about pants.

We did a big story about pants back in the fall of 2020, when Polar Big Boys and their descendants had a monocultural hold on skateboarders’ legs. One commenter deemed it a watershed moment for QS content. At the time, our collective perception of the pantscycle looked something like this:

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Man, Those T-Funk New York Clips Rule — Baker’s ‘Gimmie A Break!’ Video

As of the past few days, you can probably make the case for it being summer. And with summer, comes different variants of the same conversation: “Why the fuck are we going to Blubba?” “Who the fuck are you with that wants to meet at Pyramid Ledges?” “When the fuck was the last time someone got a trick at Seward that anyone remembered?”

While those three spots probably represent the upper 5th percentile of most-skated spots in the city, in this high season of productivity and complaining, each gripe is coated with a resigned air of what could possibly be left to do.

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Who’s Allowed To Skate The Crib?

So just in the past four days, the Brooklyn Banks reopened, Hardies threw a skate jam at D7 without incident (well, for the most part…), there’s a “~mini ramp~” at Tompkins, and summer *technically* hasn’t started yet…

Nico from Paris has a new bro cam edit out on YouTube that covers a trip to New York + Copenhagen, with an extended Paris section at the end. Probably one of the best places to see Kevin Rodrigues out in the wild …on the internet. Also includes Antonio, E.J., Hjalte + the bros.

A 420-foot nollie lipslide is essentially the same runtime as a 2025 rap song. Also posted this on the IG story only to have people be like, “He’s using rails!” I think you guys might be missing the point of a 420-foot nollie lipslide…

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