Whoa! This year was special. You know, the new routine did step it up a notch or two and all pilots had prepared their stuff well before departure for the big week in Denmark.

Anders had put together a new routine with a nice mix of good old stuff and new and interesting moves that we all had taken in by his great stop motion animation. I knew my part of the new routine by heart … and I think the others did too.

Then just a couple of days before we left for DK, Farid informed us he had to throw in the towel due to illness. He could not come! What a bummer!

We were all very sad for Farid not being able to join in this year, but we also had to work out a Plan B for the team that now was down to three pilots.

Thankfully, we have a decent ‘library’ of elements for a three-man routine too, so Anders started the digging and when we met in Denmark on the Tuesday he had come up with an alternative routine based mostly on elements from our routine from 2022.

So we had to go for this new routine and started the stick practice on the beach prior to do it in the air with our kites.

…and then we got the Nirvanas flying!