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As a whole, spontaneous openers seem great, but I think a PUA should have one or two canned openers that he's really congruent with ready at his arsenal. I guess it would ideal to use spontaneous openers as a primary choice and to have canned openers as back-up.
I agree completely, but there are problems with canned openers, which I address on page 41. That's why I emphasize the spontaneous opener. Go ahead and keep some canned openers in your back pocket, or better still come up with your own rather than using the ooooold ones floating around on the internet gathering cobwebs. But ultimately, you need to learn to be in the moment, and using canned material won't get you there. Remember Luke Skywalker in his X-wing fighter trying to destroy the Death Star? He had to "let go", fly by instinct, and use the Force in order to shoot his bomb down the little shaft. Hmmm, symbolism.
Try it the Zen/Jedi way and see what happens.
To be honest I was never much of a fan of canned material in the first place, but recently I've been appreciating it a lot more...
Style mentions (in the Annihilation Method, I think) that when he was observing naturals, he noticed that they were saying the same things over and over again with different women. The naturals made their own material, but it became canned for them. They go with the flow, but it's the same canned flow every time... I don't think there's so much of a dichotomy between "letting go" and using canned material the
proper way (making your own or practicing someone else's - preferably one that doesn't have so much cobweb - until your delivery becomes congruent).
The same goes for these spontaneous openers - for them to be effective, you must use them the proper way. The improper way will only turn them into situational openers which will get you nowhere.