So much effort, money, etc. is spent avoiding being here the first two months of the year, but then March hits, and levels of low morale you once thought were impossible to plummet to begin to surface.
What better way to feel better than to time travel to skate trips of yesteryear, yaknow?
(Yes, it’s April, but the dive happened in March, you Type A jerk.)
📷 Photo by Stafhon Boca
When we were doing a compilation of all of Nick Michel’s clips from our “For Nothing” Vans trips — on the occasion of him getting The Cover™ — a few people asked for a Diego edition. While doing the cutdowns for Diego’s Five Favorite Parts earlier this week, that suggestion floated back to mind. Great idea!
As you’ve likely heard, our buddy Nick Michel got the Thrasher cover next month.
We love Nick.
He’s one of our favorite skaters.
In fact, we’ve been on three Vans x QS trips with Nick: to Sicily (2019), Majorca (2022) and Buenos Aires (2023.)
Nick always got really good footage on those trips.
So, to celebrate his cover, here is a raw reel of all Nick’s clips from those “For Nothing” trips.
Because we love Nick, and wish him the world.
📷 All photography by Anthony Acosta
We had a plan to go to Argentina in May of 2020.
Around the time that the planning stage would’ve begun, some …things happened.
When those “things” got less intense, we hit Majorca instead.
After that, it was back to the drawing board: Argentina, for nothing.
Knowing that that the Lotties video featuring Nick Michel’s breakthrough part was due out any day — and that Nick would soon be fielding offers from SpaceX, the Golden State Warriors and Goldman Sachs — Chris Milic, the eclectic C.E.O. of Frog Skateboards, had to act fast. The window to remind his star teamrider about skateboarding’s humble joys was closing, as he would soon be speeding down the Pacific Coast Highway in a Lamborghini Countach, on the way to his first billion.
