Well Bill...
Welcome to the forums, and it's great you want to make improvements.
Please don't take any of this as critical to you as a person. I'm absolutely trying to help and get you the best response rate to your profile... (and I just took a half hour to do all this... so...) Here goes:
Your photos are WAY more important than you profile... It's 80-20 I'd say... so focus on your pics.
1)
Your pictures... They could all be better. They look fairly unprofessional (and no, you don't NEED professional photos for online dating, but everything helps). Your main picture is taken from below, makes you look larger than you are (fatter, not taller). The safety glasses are not helping, despite the fact 'manly stuff is about to happen'. Here's what I'd do with your pics:
- You need a new main picture. None of the ones there are OK. Make it head on, taken by someone else, and be smiling in it. Look happy and like a nice guy (you're looking for a relationship, not a hookup according to your profile).
- Pics you can keep: Bull riding... That's about it. You should add a picture with a puppy. That's not a joke. Gives you a great talking point to open any girl who has a pet in her picture, and girls love
puppies (I'm dead serious. Online, I get the absolute best results from a picture of me and a baby golden retriever that isn't even mine). If you don't have a dog, go to the park and get a pic with someone else's... It's weird, but it's a great addition to your profile.
- Have a group shot of you and some buddies laughing and having a great time. Make it clear - so people can easily identify YOU in the picture. The pic you have with the 2 girls isn't wonderful... I see it as a little transparent. You're taking a pic with some hot chicks so girls on POF will think you know some hot chicks (preselection).
- Only one selfie... and make it a good one. Take a bunch and pick the best one.
2)
Your profile... Was tough to read, man... It's not funny, and it probably should be a little humorous. It's too long also... You should ditch the fake laughs - hahas and lols. They're no good. If I were to modify it for you it'd look something like this:
I'm tall. Like really tall.
Sadly, I did not become the NBA superstar my mother wanted me to be, so I now work in sales, where my height is completely irrelevant.
I'm active and enjoy the outdoors. My interests include movies, Netflix, long walks on the beach and vigilante justice. I'm looking for someone well-trained in martial arts who shares similar interests and who would enjoy fighting crime with me.
A sense of humor and the ability to tolerate a high level of sarcasm preferred
CHAT