Hey everyone,

Just a few minutes ago, I decided to register myself at the MPUA forum.
I thought it would be only appropriate to introduce myself to you, my peers.

I am a 24 yeard old college student from the Netherlands and have only recently (like a week give or take) discovered the PUA community.
I guess it all started when a buddy of mine told me about the book "The Game" by Neil Strauss, a.k.a Style.
He was really excited about it and told me I should definitely check it out.
Now I'm the kind of guy who is relatively happy with his life, I'm studying something I love and have a good social group of close friends going for me.
However, (I imagine like a lot of guys new to the PUA scene) I have one great weakness which I very much struggle with. And as you might have already guessed, that weakness is how to attract and seduce beautiful women.
To be honest, I don't consider myself an ugly guy. I always try to be well-groomed and have my own personal style. And I do get compliments on my looks on occasion by various women.
I'm also by no means a virgin anymore. In fact, in my late teen years, I had actually had quite some successes when it came to pick up girls at social gatherings like bars, clubs etc.
I also had two serious relationships from the time between my late teens till about a year ago, the longest lasting for four years (which neither I regret in any way since they help make me the man I am today.)

But here comes my sticking point.
It's like a all the boldness that I perhaps once had, when it comes down to opening sets and attracting woman, has all but vanished in thin air.
Nowadays when I go out with my buddies, I'm like the guy who doesn't has the courage to even walk up to a beautiful girl. I have moments where I completely shut down. And when I do somehow work up the stones to engage, half of the time it's like I don't know what the hell I'm doing. And I will be like the average Joe, asking the same boring and generic questions like so many 'nice guys' before me.
This usually ends up with me totally ruining a set and only adds up to a deep frustrating and anger towards myself for doing so.
This feeling of resentment and my desire for women had ultimately peaked my interest high enough to check out some of the stuff my buddy was telling me about, in a "Why the hell not" state of mind.
So firstly I thought of looking up some stuff online and I quickly found some videos about "the Mystery Method". I watched for about ten minutes and then it happened, I was hooked.
I watched as many videos as I could find and ordered the book "The Game" almost instantly afterwards.
I was like, this is the way.

That very night I was invited to a party over at a friends house.
The SPAM there awesome and since it wasn't foreign territory to me I felt at ease.
Now this particular buddy of mine has a girlfriend, and it so happened that a girlfriend of her was visting here (she lives abroad). I noticed that she was somewhat eying me as we sat down with a group and chilled.
A thought occurred through my mind "Shall I try out some of the stuff I just watched?".
I pondered a bit and then finally I thought "Why not". And so I did.
I opened a new conversation, trying to get the entire group to focus on me. I threw some subtle negs at the girl and tried to do a "DHV" through some of my stories. All the while, while trying to focus on my body language. When I saw the techniques working I was like "No freaking way". I tried to isolate the girl later on and went on to do some "Kino escalation". To make a long story short, I ended up staying the night there and I had sex with her. This was -the- turning point for me. I was a believer.
I am now vigorously trying to absord everthing that I can about the PUA world and have it made it my own personal project in my free time. I have even managed to get a date with a girl I just met yesterday, simply by sticking to the material that I now know.

I am by no means a PUA yet, and I'm probaly not even far removed from being a "AFC", but things are progressing and I'm learning. I will be going to a student party tonight and it will be the first time that I will actually try out all that I've learned in the field. Just thinking about makes me scared.
As a final note, I read up on how a PUA should create an "Avatar" form himself.
So I asked my closest friends, some I consider to be as close as brothers to me, to pick a name for my that will suit my new alter-ego. They creatively came up with the name "Crescent".
This since I have a thing for the moon and even have a tattoo of a crescent moon on one of my arms.

So here it is guys, my introducting story. I hope to learn as much as I humanly can from you, my peers.
And by doing so I hope to share and contribute to the PUA community as well.

Regards,

- Crescent