Hey guys,
I have read through some of the similar field reports and have taken inspiration from AFCDaniel's in particular. Anyway here's the deal with me:
-I still go to high school.
-I'm not looking for lots of lays, at my age, just to set myself up with great social skills so I can do some proper gaming when I'm older.
-I don't have very long oneitises, usually only a couple weeks tops
-I'm on summer holiday now (finished yesterday), and have five weeks to really work on my game with few distractions.
Day One(yesterday)
just out with some friends
I had organised with three other friends to make the journey from chump to champ a little while ago, and yesterday was to be our first time in the field. The point of this was to motivate ourselves through hard spots. As newbies, we just wanted to get some time in the field getting some approaches under our belt.
Some Goals:
Approach as many sets as possible.
We kept it fairly simple, we had managed to identify that AA was something we would have to overcome, and as I've read in numerous places, the best way to get over approach anxiety is to approach. So we headed off to Bondi Junction, which is the name for a massive mall, affectionately known simply as jungers. Jungers is in essence the epicentre of teenage activity in Sydney. Having explained what canned openers were to my friends, we decided to give making our own openers a go, keeping in mind that we tried to not make them conditional, and to also make sure that they were relevant to something else, so we didn't seem like we were taking surveys. After having a bite to eat for lunch, and briefing ourselves, we split up into two groups of two (we were scared of scaring people), and set out to make some approaches. We were nervous.
We didn't need to be. The place was deserted. We saw a few two sets, but they were either on the floor below, or fifty metres away. The adults were not much better, they all seemed to have headphones in and were in a massive hurry. Another problem was just that all the sets were always moving, and as mystery said a body in motion stays in motion, and at our level, we were going to have difficulty attracting the attention of anyone long enough to run an opener. We were walking around for an hour, before we made the phone call, and got back together. There we were talking about what was happening. The place was a bust. We moved elsewhere. At one point a pair of 8.5s came past us and we were so upset that nobody opened them, admittedly I was facing backwards and couldn't see them, but I was still a bits peeved.
It had seemed like we had been walking around for ages, and nobody had gotten a set. Then as my wing was getting an iced chocolate, I got a call, one of my friends had gotten an approach. To be sort of expected, it was the friend with ADD, but nonetheless, an approach was an approach. About forty-five minutes later, we were ready to call it a day. As we met up, I spotted a two set, walking. Keeping in mind something I had read (probably mystery), I got slightly ahead of them, and looked over my shoulder as I opened them, it felt spontaneous enough to me, and it succeed in stopping them. Now I was in set with a pair of HB8s.
Bearing in mind that the point of the entire exercise was to emphasise the approach, I went for the easiest way to seem non-threatening. I opened them by telling them, that I needed to find a present for my boyfriend, and pointed to my wing. The entire interaction only lasted for a couple minutes tops before I excused myself, and returned to my friends.
Things I've Learned
-I found out that AA isn't around when you are approaching, its around when you are not approaching. As soon as you take the first step, and commit to an approach, its almost as if your body handles it from there.
-I learned that talking to girls really isn't that hard, they're not out to reject you, they're out just having a life.
-I found out that above all else the experience was a lot of fun, I know that I personally only opened one set in some two hours.
-there was this amazing feeling just after I left the set, I know that it was probably some weird hormones like adrenaline and dopamine, nonetheless, the approach gave me the most massive rush, that resulted in me feeling like I was bulletproof, and as if I could punch through the marble pillars at my friend's place. Fortunately common sense told me that guns without a license were illegal in Australia and that marble pillars probably cost a fair bit of money.Even now, some twelve hours later, I still have this buzz from the interaction.
What I need to learn:
-I still have aa, I'm by no means over it
Plans for tomorrow (or today because its five in the morning)
I'm heading down to Manly today in the afternoon for a counselling session, and I need to get my father a birthday present, so I'll probably head down there early and open a couple of sets asking what to buy my father for his birthday. Kill two birds with one stone haha.
Happy Sarging everyone
Sweep
CHAT