1. The schoolmate

About how it all started with the newfound schoolmate on the bench next door.

The first dream – what if it is possible!

Lelång is a strange lake. It's shaped like a seahorse, or you might see the shape of a seahorse. Shoe sole, it depends. It is just over 30 miles long and strangely narrow and thin All the way. To the north is Lennartsfors and in the south Bengtsfors – and that's where Adapt's story begins. It's a beautiful place, Bengtsfors, there at The lake, with the boardwalk and everything. It is the municipality's central town and here more than three thousand people are home. And it was here that Adapt began his journey, 1995.

A few years earlier, Viking Grandin's family had chosen to leave the big city of Stockholm. The move went to Bengtsfors where they had their roots. Jonathan Olsson was born and living a few miles south, in Dals Långed. Where Viking was the chatty and outgoing child, Jonathan was a technically gifted thinker. They say he repaired technical gadgets when he was two years old.

When the seventh class began, Dals Långedsbarnen had to take a bus to Bengtsfors, as it often in rural areas. So is Jonathan. In the bench next to it in the classroom sat Viking. It was there and when it started, a friendship that had stood strong for 25 years. Although they did not share any interests, then as now, except for to run to the school's residence room to play ping pong on breaks and join UNF, the local youth society that arranged activities and discos. There, seventh graders be in a corner and help. Even if they only got sell candy and soda and not stand in the DJ booth. But they saw and learned.

When it came time a year later to raise money for the class trip, Viking and Jonathan had an idea. They wanted, and had to, arrange knattedisco for toddlers. They borrowed equipment from UNF – and it was a success. And that's when the first dream began to take shape; "What if we can get more knuckles? How many, how big? What if it's possible?!"