Jon Miner killed it with this epic "From Birth to Skater of the Year" presentation for this year's champ, Leo Romero.

The party went off, and so did Leo. Here's the Phelper handing over the Skater of the Year trophy and Leo's speech. Everybody loves Leo—Congrats bro!

Here's our token photo booth pictures from the Skater of the Year party.

Check out Leo's interview from the September 2010 issue.

Tonight is the night.

He has two major video parts drop within a few months of each other, and there's still lines to spare?

In honor of this year's SOTY we gathered up five sequences of Leo Romero.

Even "seen-it-all" filmers and photographers who are around hammers every day will tell you this: Leo is a skate maniac. He gets a lot of makes—here's some misses.

Reader votes, input from other pros, contributions to the mag, video coverage, and gut instinct all combine here. Jake delivers the news to a guy who has one of the gnarliest approaches to skating we've ever seen. And the 2010 SOTY winner is...

Burnout has Phelps and crew down in Leo land hittin' the town after the big announcement.

King of the Road is over. Now it's time for the only thing left to give away: the Skater of the Year trophy. Rusty wants to party.