Arriving in the final of the 2026 Fiji Pro, after what history will remember as the moment she changed surfing, 19-year-old Erin Brooks is eyeing down her second straight Championship Tour win. More than the results, it’s how she’s gone about it all. Starting with her comeback in Tahiti, where the young Canadian’s frontside barrel riding abilities were head and shoulders above the rest, she came into Cloudbreak carrying a ton of momentum. Then came the 10-point ride, which has to be in contention for the best barrel ever ridden by a woman at Cloudbreak during the Fiji Pro. And now, after beating five-time world champ Carissa Moore in the semifinals, in her second straight final, Brooks is one heat away from going on a back-to-back rampage through the South Pacific. On the other side of the bracket, Isabella Nichols, with whom I had the good fortune to dine most days at the Fiji Marriott Resort Momi Bay , has also hammered her way to the final.…