15 year old Erin Brooks is the future of surfing! 🇨🇦🏄‍♀️

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Erin Brooks: The teen at the forefront of women’s aerial surfing

Brooks has an affinity for flight, and is already making history competing against and beating men twice her age and size. The Canadian has shown an X-factor, ability, and a mature attitude beyond her years.

“I don’t consider myself as a professional surfer. I still feel like I'm just a kid out there just surfing and having fun,” Brooks told Olympics.com last year.

“I have a hard time calling myself that sometimes because how I see professional surfers, (they) are - Carissa Moore, Kolohe Andino. They're at the top on the CT (Championship Tour), Olympians, and I feel like I'm below that. Hopefully, I can get there one day.”

Erin Brooks: "I feel I'm just a kid out there, just surfing and having fun"

Becoming a professional athlete at 12 years old, as Brooks did, is not exactly the norm. She’s already competing against people who have done the sport longer than she’s been alive. And the

“When I was nine years old, I moved to O'ahu. We lived on the island of Maui and the first few days (after) I moved there, I got invited to a surf lesson. And then from the first wave, that's when I knew that's what I wanted to do for the rest of my life,” Brooks told Olympics.com.

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