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Have great summer!
I think I’ve wrapped up all the things now. It’s been a nice joyrney and I’m surprised that I managed to post so many posts here during the whole thing!
Thanks to all who followed this (I don’t know how many are you ‘cause there’s no place that I know of where I could see how many visits I’ve got)!
But do come around. I try to change this to a more general blog (mainly for coffee things) in the very near future. We’ll see am I able to do it or do I need to make a whole new blog but I will keep you informed. But until that thank you and have a great summer!
HERE’s a link to my presentation if you didn’t see it live and want to see it. Under that link you can find all of the presentation that were made during the WBC 2011.
Here’s my introduction video for the WBC. They asked every barista to do their own video for the WBC website but there was some problems with mine, so it’s not on the website but it’s here for you to enjoy. Thanks Niklas for shooting and editing the video!
And here’s the page where you can find videos made by other baristas.
Kaffa Roastery, Svante, Kalle, Niki, Niklas, Mike, Sanna, Antti, Mikkel, Öner, Joona “the coach”, Jens, Victoria, Olli, Touko, Felipe, Iittala, Ulrika, etc.,
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Oh, and everyone I met during the WBC!
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I’m sorry if I forgot you.
It’s about two weeks after the WBC and the holiday in Italy is over and it’s time to hit the reality, that means work. No more competition things. At this point it’s a good time to wrap up the whole thing:
After the nationals I was pretty stoked about the win and also about going to the WBC in Bogota. All in all I knew it was going to be interesting and educational journey. I had about 2,5 months between the nationals and the WBC. I paused my school for the time so I could focus more on the practice. It was a good call because without doing that I would have done terrible at the competition. There was some issues so I didn’t really practice “24/7”, I worked in the bar pretty much for the whole first month and almost all of the second month also instead of doing proper practicing. This was just because I didn’t really know what to practice and how to practice it, and there wasn’t anyone who was kicking my ass, pushing me forward. I had some help from others, but now I think I should have asked for more help.
At some point I was pretty stressed about the whole thing and was horrified about the whole thing but I got over it after I found out that I had nothing to lose. I decided that I would go there and do my thing as good as I can and see how it goes.
While I was working (and not practicing) I had time to adjust my coffee. And I’m really satisfied to it. It was and still is a great coffee. And at the competition I manage to pull pretty good shots from it, I got about a 3/6 from the espresso but the cappuccinos and the signature drink wasn’t that good. Technique points were really good and thats a thing I’m proud of. What comes to the whole routine it could have been more tailored. After the judges feedback and seeing the routines of the others I understood that it could have been way better. With the coffee I had, I could have build a better WBC routine.
But if it sounds that I’m not satisfied for the whole thing you’re getting the wrong idea. Because I’m actually really satisfied. I managed to do the routine as I had practiced (minus the few extra seconds), I didn’t do any mistakes and I didn’t faint. I saw that I’m up for it.
After the routine I was thinking that I might have a chance for the semi-finals, because the routine went so well. Obviously I didn’t make it and at the judges feedback session I got to know why. And after that I really knew all of the big and all of the smallest details that I could have practiced and tailored to the perfect. Because I hadn’t been competing in the WBC before I had no idea what the judges are really looking for (eventhough I’ve read the rules 100 times). But know I now, and next time I will do better, or atleast I know what to change, do differently and which things affects the points.
The whole journey to the WBC has been amazing, fun, educational, hectic… Along the way I’ve met a lot of great people that I hope to see in the future also. I’ve learned a lot and I’m way more better barista know that I was about 5 months ago.
Italy! Wine is good, coffee is bad.
I visited La Marzocco today. Really nice place and people, and great machines!
Some pictures from the origin trip during the WBC
