I’ve been skating with Frankie since the days before I owned a video camera and a fish eye lens. He started trying to get clips right around the time I started filming and it just seemed to go from there. Needless to say we’ve been doing this together for a while now. Frankie has an innovative and somewhat different approach to skateboarding whether it’s combining tricks or skating a near impossible spot , he always has something a little ‘out side the box’ in mind. He’s someone who seems to manage a clip at almost any spot he goes to , adapting to whatever comes his way and doesn’t need any kind of plan to make things happen. In fact the best clips i’ve gotten of him over the years have mostly happened spontaneously. Frankie’s had parts in Dirty Water , Mixed Effect , Sea Level and is currently working on a new one for Orchard skateshop’s next video. All in all Nash is always down for a session and seems to skate with every waking moment thats humanly possible. We all look forward to seeing what he comes up with for his next part -Elliott Vecchia

How old are you and where are you from?
I am 23 years old. I grew up in a small town called Sharon and when i was 14 i moved to Scituate. I moved to Boston when I was 18 to go to school and have been here ever since. It’s been about 6 years now. I couldn’t imagine living anywhere else.

How did you get introduced to skateboarding and how long have you been riding? 
I have been skating since I was about 11 years old. It’s been a long time. About 12 years now which is more than half my life. I got into skating through older kids that lived in my neighborhood that I hung out with and eventually they got me hooked on it. One of the first people to introduce me to skating was a kid from Brazil that lived down the street from me named Thiago. The first board I ever had was a Nash that i got for my birthday. I used to skate around the streets with the older kids and they would try to teach me tricks.

You’ve been putting a lot of footage out the past 2 years. You had a part in Jay Brown’s Mixed Effect, the opening part in Sea Level, and more recently a Orchard welcome to the team clip. You must be in the streets a lot to get all this done in such a short time? How do you do it?
A lot of it has to do with being out of school and trying to skate as much as possible. I went straight from being in high school to college and being in the city I got way more into skating. Once I was done with school I had a lot more time to skate. Once you are in the “real world” all you have to do is make sure you can make ends meet and be able to support yourself. I tried the full time job thing and after 6 months I realized it wasn’t for me. I got lucky and fell into a situation where I could work a few days a week and make time to skate as much as possible. I work for a catering company at all of the museums around Boston that is owned by the famous chef”¯ Wolfgang Puck. I also do freelance graphic design and teach skate lessons here and there. As far as getting footage I am lucky enough to be friends with a lot of talented filmers. Any day I have off I try to go skate and if I end up meeting up with a filmer it’s always a plus. The whole welcome to Orchard clip came about after Sea Level came out. I had been talking to them about trying to get on the team and”¯ I knew I had to film a welcome to clip. Instead of using throwaway or recycling clips I filmed for a couple months this past winter and came up with the clip. I’m glad they were stoked on the footage and I am so stoked to be part of such an amazing shop.

Sea Level came out amazing, how did you feel with the outcome of your part and the rest of the video?
Thanks man. Yeah I was stoked to have first part. Chris and Elliott who made the video told me early on that I was gonna have opener. Having first part is just as important as last because it is the first thing that people see. I was hyped on how the part came out but there is always gonna be things that I wish I had done differently or tricks that I wish that I had gotten. In the end it is what it is. I was hyped on how the video turned out. Everyone killed it and the video had a very diverse showcase of east coast skateboarding.

Other than Habitat and Orchard is anyone else helping you out? 
I ride for Ambiguous and a local wheel company that just came out called Four Wheels. I am also down with Toebock.

What keeps you in Boston? Most people take off to New York or L.A what makes skating in Boston so much different than other places?
Boston is my home. I have so many friends here and my family is close by. I love the spots here and there is always new shit popping up all the time. Boston has a lot of old and new architecture so you get a nice variety of stuff to skate. I like to travel but I find myself only going as far as the east coast. I really do not have the desire to skate in California.

Any last words or shout outs to anyone?  
Travis Storer and everyone at Skate Jawn for giving me the opportunity to do this interview. My family. Bro, Armin, Bagley, and everyone else at Orchard. Elliott Vecchia, Chris Fiftal, Cuong Ngo, Tin Tran, and Lee Madden for filming me. Xeno and Buddy for shooting photos. Mike Tallone at Habitat for hooking me up with boards and shoes. Luis, Nick, and Travis at Four Wheels. Bryan and Lisa at Ambiguous. Adam Crew and the Toebock homies. Killshit homies. All of my friends and everyone I skate with.