Remy Stratton sits down with Jake at Crossroads to talk some Volcom history and candidates for Skater of the Year 2009.

Crossroads came and went. Pott won the double set, Kechaud jumped 12 barrels, & Capt Cole destroyed everything for the win.

Here's some crumbs that didn't make it into the 2009 Chili Bowl cut.

Braydon Szafranski gets a first look at our October 2009 issue. Get your copy at your local skateshop, or subscribe.

In 1996, vert was dead—yeah right! Tell Tas Pappas. Gnar-zone from the casket that was Mad Circle's "Let The Horns Blow." RIP, Ben. —Phelps

Crab for one, Phelps tells what it takes to be SOTY. Again.

Here's some B-roll skating, interviews, and randumb nonsense from our day with Flip filming the Skatepark Round-Up.

Here's another classic from the archives. It's from video number 2, The Need For Speed, and it's Wade Fuckin' Speyer.

This just in: Emmanuel Guzman will have a part in our upcoming Prevent This Tragedy video.

Toad and Salmon's fifth annual Chili Bowl contest came back to Potrero Park in SF. McClain took home first.

Lance Mountain and Jake talk a proper frontside invert with special guest, Geoff Rowley, on The End while on the Skatepark Roundup with the Flip team.

Mark Appleyard thumbs through the September 2009 issue and gives his thoughts on who should be Skater Of The Year while on the Skatepark Roundup with the Flip team.

In case you didn't know it David Gravette is filming two parts at the same time. We had him out in the streets all day and Navarrette, Partanen and Hitz had him at night under the lights. Keeping him together in one piece is tough.

This month, the fearsome Flip team, including Rowley, Appleyard, Mountain, Gonzalez, Louie and Curren with special guest, Element's Jeremy Wray.

Make fun of his hair all you want but Trevor Morgan of Oakland, CA kills it. If you think you got what it takes, send in your footage.

Watch Kellen James and Jimmy Cao warm up on this four stair down south.

P-Stone gets wild in the streets of the Canary Islands for Prevent This Tragedy.

It's hard to find a Thrasher video that Dan Drehobl didn't at least have a few clips in, but out of them all, I'm gonna have to go with his part in Hall Of Meat as my favorite. This 1999 part introduced the late Wesley Willis to me, and with tricks like wrap-arounds and dumptrucks to fakie in the Vagabond? You pick a better nomination for a Classic. —Schmitty

Vox and Pacific Drive had a launch ramp demo—the catch being that the Vox team was judging it.