Slight Pat on the Back

This isn't really an FR, but I stopped by a friend's house (female friend) to catch up. I met her roommate (HB8, body HB10) and her upstairs neighbor. Both were really cool and I liked them a lot, but afterward I got an email from her saying how much they both liked me and how awesome I was. To quote the HB8, "Meeting guys like that makes me wish I was single." Hot damn!

Yeah, there's nothing to report, but that felt great to hear. This girl's body was phenomenal: around 5'11", C cups, tight body, cute face with those hot librarian glasses. I think she was around 21 years old. Mmmmm, I'll have to work some more rapport on her so when her LDR breaks up, she'll have someone to fall back to.

Routine Change

Alright, I've tweaked my daily routine a bit to provide myself some more energy (thanks to Style and Mystery), and I've also worked with Tarzan to provide an incentive to get our momentum going again (this game is all about momentum). The bet? You lose $10 for every set you don't open when you should open. Now if the girl is clearly unattractive to you or there is some legitimate reason for not opening, it's OK. But if you simply chicken out, you've just lost $10. We're actually going to collect our money each Monday morning and donate it to charity.

I came back from Capoeira on Monday night, dripping in sweat and disgusting, and stopped by the local QFC at U. Village. There were sets everywhere! Then I switched to the Barnes & Noble and found lots of cuties there too -- and at 10:45 PM! I'm hoping to run direct game on some girls as I'm still stinky and sweaty from Capoeira.

I'm not going to give up--I'm going to fight the inertia and push myself into orbit again.

Weekend Sarging Day 1 Results

Major failure to launch today. Tarzan and I meet up around 10:30, head to the local coffee shop, and prepare for the day's activities. We run through our rapport games and head out to QFC to run game at U. Village. I spot a cute 2-set and get an AI from the target, but for some reason I feel I am too tired to open so I skip her. I see another cute lone wolf (would be an amazing lay) but again AFC out. I'm feeling super tired so I grab a second cup of coffee. I banter with a few people and am chatty, but this sleepiness is killing me.

Tarzan opens a cute SHB9 with banter and seems to be having a good talk with her, and I pass by to watch her BL. She smacks him on the arm (always a good sign). Eventually we see her in the checkout lane and he re-opens. I stand behind him where HBCougar shows up with beautiful blue eyes. I ask her what she's carrying in her hand (some sort of salad) and she responds positively. We vibe on her times in Ireland and I am trying to decide whether to go direct on her (you know you have incredibly beautiful eyes!). She goes ahead in line when her chance comes up, while I'm still stuck with Tarzan. As she walks away she turns back and waves. Amazing body on this one, and I'd love to have myself a cougar. I guess next time I should just go direct and see where it takes me. Lesson learned.

We venue change to Sephora and I have a hired gun put just a tad of make up on me to bring out my blue eyes. I like her a lot but have personal problems with gaming a hired gun. She's laughing and all but I feel bad going to major rapport. Oh well, I'm chatty after her and feeling in state. We venue change around U. Village but it's overall empty. Where is everybody?

We leave to the Seattle Center for Bite of Seattle. I'm doing the PU101 alpha male walk and get major AIs from girls, including a girl who doubletakes me while holding her boyfriend's hand. It's amazing how powerful that walk is. I go to a hired gun and start chatting her up, ask her what her story is, try to get to know her better. I'm enjoying my conversation and she's hot, but again I'm not feeling confident enough to #close her or anything. She has a BF but would make a cool friend ("you're cool, you can help me pick up chicks"), but again I'm just not feeling it. Something's wrong.

I see a super cute blonde with her mom and some AFC guy and approach, for she's wearing a pirate's hat. I ask where she got it and she offers it, then her mom pulls it back and makes me sing the "ABC's". I comply and get myself a new pirate hat. She is SUPER cute but I don't know how to close her. I mean I can't just shift to direct, can I? It's alright, my confidence is restored because I'm having fun (although crazy tired).

It's insanely hot and the Seattle Center is packed with people, so we leave to Queen Anne. We try to take a short nap in a park but the heat stifles us. Shit! We call it a day and hope for more success tomorrow.

As with all experiences in the game, there are some lessons to learn:

1. Get enough sleep! Being a sleepy PUA isn't going to help you.
2. Go direct on a girl as soon as possible. We AFC'd out and the day blew.
3. Walk the alpha male walk and stance. It feels cool and you get AIs all the time.
4. I love talking to blondes (especially with blue eyes). I guess I have a thing for them.
5. Don't give up!

I find I'm at the stage Lance Mason mentions in the "Everything You Know about Women is Wrong" video (in case you can't tell, the theory behind this stuff amazes me almost as much as the actual game). Mason mentions two characters: Andre, the alpha male, and Bob, the beta male. 90% of men are betas by social programming. According to Sperm Wars, women are programmed to sleep with the alpha males but settle with a beta male who would then help raise the children (I refer to a great article called "The Truth about Women" by an unknown poster on Bristol Lair that essentially embodies this principle). The alpha is the sex object while the beta is the provider.

In the game, when you pretend to be Andre, women will assume you're Andre until proven otherwise. For me, I can walk like Andre, I can stand like Andre, and I can open like Andre, but I can't hold the conversation long enough like Andre just yet, and I certainly can't alpha male the hell out of her like Andre yet either. So when girls are giving me AIs and I don't approach, they almost look disappointed. Or when I enter a set and do poorly, the girl again looks disappointed that I'm not Andre. But I'm so glad that I've found the path to becoming Andre, although I still would like to simply be more charismatic too rather than pure alpha. Hell, I'll be both.

The point is that this game is a series of plateaus. You start off with wherever you are, and you start inching your way forward. Once you get to a certain wall, you have to practice something else (kino escalation, deeper rapport, vibing, etc.). I'm still light-years ahead of where I was a year ago, miserably living the life of the AFC without knowing what an AFC was.

It's hot as balls in my apartment right now, which is why I'm here typing at 4:30 AM, but enough KJ for me tonight. I saw a great quote in the Barnes & Noble as I was searching for targets:

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you have imagined."
--Thoreau

Tomorrow, we game again.

Weekend of Sarging

Saturday morning, 10 AM. Tarzan and I meet at Zoka to prepare for the day's games. I'll be sending field reports as they come. For the first time, two Mango-trained PUAs are running day game for two days straight.

This is the weekend that changes everything.

Ah, Kirkland Summerfest

Yesterday I was playing some day game with a few guys from the lair. I was trying to get some new guys to enter sets running direct game, but none of them seemed to want to do it. Eventually I gave up and started hunting myself. I amped up my alpha male walk and told Awesome to stay 15 feet behind me in my wake. After one lap around the waterfront, I had AIs from all sorts of girls, including a seated 3-set of Kirkland girls who literally locked onto my body as I strolled by. Fingers joined Awesome behind me as I passed a super cute blonde with blue eyes (my preferred target), who immediately gave me an AI. I turned around to open her direct when Fingers starts talking to her! I amped up her BT and Fingers rides in on my wake! Grrrr. I heard from him half an hour later and he said she had a boyfriend, and he didn't use any boyfriend destroyer pattern (or my favorite: ignore the boyfriend entirely).

I dropped the atomic bomb of direct game on a girl on the way home, who lit up like a Christmas tree. This restored my confidence since I hadn't had success with direct recently in Seattle, but all of a sudden my memories of HB-Elizabeth Hurley, HB-Spanish, and HB-Twins from San Francisco returned to me. It was on! We chatted for a few minutes, I instadated her to a nearby coffee shop, and I ran the "I Like" game to actively probe for her interests. I mentioned how I like fried chicken and she said "OMG I love fried chicken!" I launched some improvised story about how when I was younger my dad would always take us to this great fried chicken place on the long road trip from DC to Richmond to visit his mother and his childhood home. I said how the aromas of fresh fried chicken and country gravy always reminded me of those youthful roadtrips and fond memories with my late grandmother, and how each time I have really good fried chicken I feel I am on my way home again (on the east coast).

I was actually making this up on the spot because I hadn't studied my Day2 routines yet, but she seemed to enjoy it. So I'm meeting up with her at Ezzels, the best fried chicken in Seattle.

Bottom line: confidence is restored in the power of day game. As an additional bonus, I happened upon a chiropractor who informed me that my headaches are most likely being caused by years of bad posture on a computer. I told him how recently it was slightly better (thanks to consciously using the alpha male walk and stance as much as possible), but my neck was still super sore and my head permanently hurts. I signed up for chiropractic care (thankfully my company's health insurance plan is awesome and covers it all), and I'm going to receive massage therapy twice a week for two or three weeks to relieve the pressure.

Who would have thought day game would have led to so much goodness?

I hadn't run any real game in a few weeks due to various collisions of interests, but my wing Tarzan is back and my weekend is completely clear, so stay tuned for FRs from the field. Tarzan was down in San Francisco rolling with Mango and Positive two weekends ago and he closed 9 girls in one day alone. Clearly, the bar has been raised. The game is on!

Cold vs. Warm Approaches

I'm watching Pickup 101's excellent "Everything You Know about Women is Wrong" video and Lance makes a great point that I've been thinking about recently:

Don't let anyone introduce you.

If you're in a social scene, don't wait around for people to introduce you to their friends. Rather, make the approach yourself, for then you are controlling the interaction.

I don't know about you guys, but I hate warm approaches. When someone says "hey ****, I'd like you to meet ****", I freeze up. I'm not ready for running attraction material (or even going direct) because I'm not feeling in control. I'm glad Lance mentions this because I've been noticing it a lot.

It's weird... I actually prefer cold approaches now to warm approaches. Fascinating!

Alright, I'll be out running a few hours of day game this Sunday. It's been over a week since I've done an approach and I'm itching for that rush of direct game!

Pangs for Daygame

Ugg, daygame is starting to eat away at me. I'm unable to run day game this weekend because of motorcycle safety (new identity for VW: rider, to add to the stack of photographer, capoeirista, and traveler). Tarzan is down in SF this weekend rolling with Mango and Positive, which leaves me without a strong wing anyway. But Tarzan's reports streaming back of major success in only a few hours (7 closes today alone -- before the night games begin!) gives me renewed confidence in myself and my loyal wing.

I amended my goals for the next six months:

1. 2 MLTRs (preferably one HB-Blonde, one HB-Brazilian)
2. 1 18-21 yo FB, 1 cougar FB
3. Be one of the top three PUAs in Seattle.
   

I love this game. Alright, enough KJ for the night, I'm off to watch Narnia.