Well, second post ever on this forum. I guess this marks the start of my journey. I have committed to learning this art and taking my learning seriously- including writing what I have learned and posting it as strange as it now seems to me. I guess I am now a recovering AFC.

This post is really a combination of the past few weeks and the lessons learned.

In general I have noticed that if I approach someone who I think I know, even if it turns out not to be that person, they will always respond well because I am so confident that I know them and that they should react in a good way. I guess this is what you call the frame.

I've gotten really good at playing the Cube game with some cold reading tied in, which is fun.

Also I am talking to more random women wherever I am, and am getting more confident in talking to them in general. I am also able to hold eye contact with women for longer than before without it seeming weird. In addition, I am less afraid of rejection now. I have made some advances and have been shot down, which rarely happened before because I didn't try too hard. But I am still alive, and if anything better off because I have learned from it. I got rejected and I am not dead, just smarter. Cool.

I have also learned to use Kino more often. Especially whenever I walk with a girl I will now have her take my arm so I can escort her or hold hands. Holding hands isn't as big of a thing as I once thought it was.

I have learned from my experiences dancing with girls that if you dance with a girl but ignore her friend the obstacle will almost always want to pull the girl you are dancing with away. Now I realize that this is a pretty much universally acknowledged phenomena and that is why you befriend the obstacle. Every time I have ignored the HB and started with the obstacle, things have gone much better.

I have also learned that the guys you see making out with HB's on the dance floor don't just randomly start making out, there was a decent amount of dance floor game put in beforehand even when the guys were good looking.

OK, so the real Field Report:

This took place at Monster Massive last night. Before the dance I was reading the "Fast dance to slow dance" post on the old "How to Lay Girls Guide" or layguide as I guess some call it (can't post links yet as I don't have 5 posts yet). I planned to use that pattern at the dance.

I was originally going to go with a group of friends, but got held up and ended up going over after they did. Because there is no cell phone coverage at the event and 70,000 people, I had pretty much given up on meeting them again. In any case, I feel more free when I am not around them because I can take more risks without feeling like they're judging me.

As it turns out, I ran into an acquaintance of mine (HB8) and one of her male friends. She invited me to join them because I was alone so I said yes. As we moved through the crowd we held hands because it was so crowded, all the while getting Kino in there. When we got to where we were dancing, I started grinding with the girl but did not move in for anything. I really wanted to see how high I could raise the buying temperature before making any moves. As we danced, I did pretty much exactly what the guy in the link did (see my above reference), but starting from where he was already close to her. I progressed jsut as he did to where I was holding her very close and dancing slowly and breathing down her neck. I was really trying to see how much I could tease her into making the first kiss, which she did after a period of some intense eye contact.

I think the secret here was not acting desperate, but instead just having fun building the sexual tension. Eventually we got out of the dance floor, ditching the other guy, and I pressed her up against a pillar and we made out for a while as I felt her up.

This was also important because it was still one of the few times I was experimenting with something I have learned online.

As a side note, Monster Massive was amazing, Crystal Castles took my breath away. I went there sober because I was alone but the music put me into a trance. I was in the very front of the crowd on the arena level when Crystal Castles were playing and got to touch Alice Glass as she was crowd surfing. The whole thing was unreal. I was Alpha in every way. I was where everyone wanted to be, dancing with a girl everyone wanted. I was the guy everyone wanted to be. All around me guys were high-fiving me. I was living the life and it felt good.

So tell me what you think. I'm excited to keep learning more and look forward to your advice.