One of the most knowledgeable figures in Brazilian surfing, representative and advisor of Chumbinho Chiancay Filipe Toledo and discoverer of several of the main talents in world surfing, Luiz Campos, popularly known as Pinga, turned on a “yellow light” about the near future of surfing in his country.

"We cannot be so blind as to deny that there is currently a gap. There is no generation ready to enter the elite with the quantity and quality of the athletes of the Brazilian storm," he said in an interview with O Globo.

In the article, which analyses the reasons for the drop in the results of the Brazilians in the world tour this year, Pinga analyses: “It is very difficult to maintain this high level of performance and, therefore, this drop in performance would occur at some point due to all the physical and, mainly, mental fatigue of our athletes.”

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Brazil, which last year won its only ISA Junior World Championship in history at home (if you consider the traditional method of adding points per team and not tag team) has just placed sixth in the Under 18 World Championships held in El Salvador.

The team only won one bronze medal in the men's under-18 category, thanks to the performances of Rickson Falcao.

Looking at the WSL Junior World Championships, the best performance was by Leo Casal who placed third and Ryan Kainalo and Laura Raupp who finished fifth.