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Peter Ramondetta is one of those veteran pros who keeps a bit of a low profile and lets his skating do all the talking — I respect that in a skateboarder. Nothing against the loud mouths out there, after all, huge personalities are one of the most entertaining things in this culture. Not to mention, the kind of wild, outlaw in the streets nature of skating creates and attracts those types of personalities anyway. But quiet dudes who handle their shit in a huge way, like Peter Ramondetta, are a perfect contrast to the Rob Dyrdeks, the Brandon Biebels, the Brad Stabas. Don’t get me wrong, I love me some Staba, but lately it’s been for everything he’s doing but his skating, and that, like Brad himself, says a whole lot.

Peter’s greatness has been solidified long before his latest interview in Thrasher, but the sequences and throwaway footage they posted along with it did good things to stoke the flames of my burning man crush on one of San Francisco’s most cherished satanists. Gnarly with a heaping side dish of technical skill, what’s there to complain about?

All sequences and video courtesy of Thrasher.

Real seems to attract these quiet killers, with an impressive lineup of super-talented silent cowboys like Ramondetta, Dennis Busenitz, and Max Schaaf — even Justin Brock and HUF to a lesser extent. So you know the full video’s going to be gnarly with a heaping side dish of technical skill. Yup. Nothing to complain about there.