1.    Having the chance to train with one the best barista trainer in the world, was one of the biggest sources of inspiration and knowledge the last 2 years.

Thank you Fritz, your help was precious!

2.    Cooperating with Johan E. and David H. was probably the best part in the whole story. Having two of the best roasters we have in Sweden, roasting my coffee, is the best a barista could get. What an honour!

3.    Being at Oaxen for 3 days getting inspired from one of Sweden’s best chefs, Magnus Ek, and experience some things that I haven’t even dreamed about, is something that doesn’t happen often. Believe me.

Thank you Magnus and Agneta I owe you!

4.    Getting technical support from Jens B.  was critically important because some of the parts in my program would never have become possible without some “patents”. You are genius!

5.    Getting precious advices from Mats J. from time to time, not many people have this opportunity. He is wise!

6.    Having the economical support from those sponsors on the right side of this page. Nothing would be possible without them.

Thank you so much! You mean a lot to me and to the Specialty Coffee industry!

7.    To be able to train at Sthlm Coffee Academy, was more than any barista would ever dream of. Having access to everything I needed and support from someone that really knows what leadership is all about. Thank you Magnus A. you are a real friend!

8.    Having a team of people back in Umeå, that has probably spent hundreds and hundreds of hours helping me, tasting my drinks and stayed calm when I was almost getting crazy!!(sometimes)

Tove, Malin, Jakob, Anders, Nicke, Christofer, Stefan, Lars and specially Per , what you did, not many people can do or are willing to do! You are the best !!!

9.    The best of the whole story is that most of those people, plus Gunila S., were with me in Japan. Could somebody get more?

10.                  And finally having someone next to you 24 hours per day, sharing the same passion, dreams and goals, being a friend both when things goes well or bad, being stable like a rock from the beginning of this journey to the end of it! This is happiness!! Thank you Linda.

There are more people that more or less had contributed to this project.

So as you can understand, when you see someone competing, he/she is just the top of the iceberg. There is a network of people around them that are equally important or more!

My job was to perform in the best possible way. To really show that it was worthing all this work and effort from all those people.

This is a very big responsibility. This is more serious than wining or losing. This is showing your appreciation and what those people mean to you. This is very serious!!

And that is why when I compete, I don’t want to have judges opposite of me that maybe do not understand  English or maybe are tired or didn’t sleep well or didn’t see everything  I did or missed something or maybe it went to fast for them or didn’t understand why I did something even if explained it 10 times or don’t know how a la Marzocco is working or say to me: don’t do this! Because no one have done it before, so it is not right! or …..

This is unacceptable! The judges are human beings and not robots, I know, but there are limits!

to be continued!