“That would have been a ten for the guys! That was insane.”
The Texan-born and newly-minted Canadian Erin Brooks has cemented her place in surfing lore after a ten-point ride at Snapper Rocks that officially ended a forty-year perception that women couldn’t ride tubes on their backhand.
Erin Brooks, who its sixteen, was bred to shred, as they used to say.
She moved from Texas to Hawaii when she was nine, surfed Teahupoo at eleven, was taking off on ten-foot Sunset peaks at thirteen and was the youngest ever competitor invited to surf in the Padang Padang Cup.
And, earlier today at Snapper Rocks, Erin Brooks threaded a legitimate top-to-bottom drainer earning her a unanimous ten-point ride from the judges. Not only did it supersede every backside tube by a woman ever filmed, free surf or contest, but it opened the door to a new era of gal’s surfing.
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Erin Brooks gift-wrapped the day by winning the entire event. She now leads the Challenger Series ratings, a six-event feeder system for the top-rung Championship Tour.
Commentary, naturally, was alive with praise for Ms Brooks.
“Insane!” wrote Nathan Florence.
Rio Wada, “Tbh that’s 20.”
Teahupoo standout Eimeo Czermak, “Best 10 ever for girls.”
Leo Fioravanti, “Most technical barrel I’ve ever see by a girl on their backhand. Erin Brooks, you’re next level.”
Jackson Dorian, “That would have been a ten for the guys! That was insane.”
Kai Lenny, “That was insane.”
Fisher, “EPIC.”
Sky Brown, “Mind blown.”
The last time Erin Brooks was on this pages was in January during the wild imbroglio over her Canadian citizenship.
Following the “cruel and sadistic” rejection of effort to represent Canada at Paris 2024, the country’s immigration minister Marc Miller did a switcharoo and gifted the kid her prized new passport.