Marcel Winatschek

Pink Helmet Posse

There’s a crew of six-year-old skateboarders in California. Pink Helmet Posse—Sierra Kerr, Relz Murphy, Bella Kenworthy. I came across video of them through some skateboarding magazine coverage, and what stuck was how they just roll. No hesitation. Four-meter ramps like it’s nothing.

The magazine’s editor called them exceptional. Not exceptional for their age—just exceptional. He showed the video to his own daughters who skate because that’s what you do when you witness something fearless. You want people to see it.

What strikes me is the lack of negotiation. Kids older than six have learned the internal conversation—risk, hesitation, fear. These kids skip that entirely. See the ramp, roll. Whether that’s innocence or something about growing up in a different world, I don’t know. But there’s something clean about the fearlessness.