My personal journal and updates from one of my best friends, my cousin. Him and I decided to dive right into learning the art of pick-up after both of us exchanged copies of The Mystery Method for the holidays. Since then, I've been scowering this and several other boards reading and absorbing as much real-world feedback as possible. I have purchased and read: The Mystery Method, The Game, Rules of the Game, Magic Bullets, Phone Game and read numerous online publications.

My plan is to keep an online log of our progress, not only to detail events so we can look back and see how far we've gotten, learn from our mistakes, but the purpose of doing it publicly is to inspire and educate ourselves using input from other members and Admins, but also to inspire new members.

We are educated, we have a WHOLE new wardrobe, cologne, I even went out and got my ear pierced, all for the sake of "out with the old, in with the new" to the extreme.

Join us, as the two of us transform from complete AFC's, to (eventually) PUA's....

Day 1: (Following Neil Strauss' Rules of the Game)

We went out to open conversation to 5 random strangers as per our mission today. My cousin and I decided the local shopping mall was the best place to do so on a busy Saturday evening. We split up, so as to not seem as threatening when starting small talk with random people shopping. We both successfully did so, and reported back to the cafeteria. I felt immediately better regarding my natural case of Approach Anxiety. Seriously, girls or not...if you approach ANYONE and just get over that ackward moment before the chat, it makes the rest feel so much easier, even to girls later on.

We decided to take it one step further and play a variation of the game we saw posted on one of the forums, we each put in $100 in 10-$10 bills. Rules of the game were each set you opened and had at least a 1 minute conversation with, you got $10 back from your pile. Needless to say we're both broke college kids so this was a great inspiration (as if the hot babes wasn't enough) to go out into the mall again and start making conversation.

I can't speak for him as we decided to split up again, but I felt really good after I approached the first 1 or 2 sets. Nothing special, just simple canned stuff I've read before like opinion openers or question routines. I couldn't really think of a logical place to take the conversations much further than the openers so after I felt the convo was diving I bailed and excused myself. To my disbelief this worked AMAZING. Not only were the girls slightly perplexed as to why I suddenly left, but often they stopped me from leaving and invited me to walk around with them to talk, or at least smiled as I passed them by again walking about.

At the end of the day, I got a date for a Valentines day concert coming up in my area, and my cousin has eased up a bit with his paralyzing dose of AA. All in all, a fantastic first day for the two of us...Keep tuned for more.

Update: Sunday Jan. 17, 2010

My cousin and I have gotten together and talked strategy. It's very important for the wingman and the PUA to have a congruent plan of action and complimenting stories or details. We learned this lesson the hard way today...

Decided to hit up a local indoor supermarket/specialty store nearby a big college. Lots of girls shopping for college snack and food since school has just started or just will be shortly this week. Without really discussing anything (day game being much different than night game) we strolled right in...what a mistake that was.

Obeying the 3 second rule religiously, I walked right in and "accidentally" allowed a HB8 to hit me with her shopping cart. I politely turned around and used that as my opportunity, throwing in a neg about being the third time today I've almost been run over. She and I had a mildly ackward 2 minute convo before she sped off carrying on her business.

I locked eye contact with a HB8 blonde, nice body, and decided to use the canned "apple test" I've read about someplace (I think it was Speed Seduction). She was utterly shocked that I actually had the balls to take a bite of the apple in the store, i offered her a taste as per the excerise and of course, she denied. I negged about not being adventerous enough for me, and she came back with "too crazy for her." I said I'd love to show her a good night out and got her number. I don't think I'll be calling her though, as I don't know I can live up to my falsely portrayed BAMF attitude I radiated.

My cousin had 2 encounters, from what he tells me both of which kind of bombed. I wasn't there to coach him and like a good wing should, provide DHV and believable time contraints. This is something we'll take as experience and use it to our advantage.

I'm excited, school opens for me soon and all this practice I'm getting in now will put me light years ahead of where I was last semester. When spring rolls around I'll ride my R6 into school and by that point in my PUA advances, it should be like taking candy from a baby...

More to come soon!

Update: Jan 18, 2010

I realized today, that I am MUCH better expressing myself in person as an aspiring PUA, than online. My abysmal response ratio on POF, FB, OKCupid, and other sites I've been experimenting on all confirm this.

Either I can't convey what I really mean (as there is no emotion or power in the way you say things online, only the order in which they are said), or I am just plain ugly and have a horrible profile. I asked on the forums here why my reply ratio was so terrible and I learned a very important fact about online sarging...

Girls, especially those good looking few that are on online dating sites are LAZY. They write what few sentences they believe makes them unique, then only hammer out simple replys to massive amounts of e-mails they recieve each day. One girl, claimed to get over 100 new messages a week. If this were so, my messages would have to be RADICALLY funny/cocky/attention grabbing. I still have NO idea how to do that, because most of my game comes from the power of using my voice and emotion to manipulate C&F and push-pull routines in the field. Clearly, online is going to take some practice...

More to come soon, heading into campus tomorrow to buy books...gonna try and game while there.

Update: Wed Jan 20, 2010

Quick Update 1 -

Yesterday I completely dismissed what I had said in previous posts about Online VS Real-world gaming. I got 2 messages, without me contacting first to two lovely ladies. One of which after only 2 or 3 messages gave ME her number and told me to "call her " the other asked me for MY number so she can txt me. I neg'd (it felt appropriate) and told her "my mommy always said never to talk to strangers, so if I'm gonna disrespect my mom, we gotta make this txt game GOOD. She ate it up hah. It's all about patience sometimes, and a lot of times girls that view your page are just too shy or lazy to message you first, so don't assume because they looked and left that they wouldn't answer you back.

In terms of real-world sarging, today's my first day back on campus, after work I'm gonna go shower and dress slick, go to campus early and look around a bit. Generally, first day's no good to pickup as everyone's running around like chickens without heads trying to find classes and books and shit.

Second update coming tonight as I finish class.

EPIC FAIL...

Today I had a length conversation with online girl. No wonder why she seemed so overly enthusiastic to give me her number online and talk to me...

SHE'S 9 MONTHS PREGNANT...

As if that wasn't bad enough, her mom didn't know about it, the father was an ex-con who disappeared somewhere into Staten Island and she lives alone in an apartment.

I was dumbstruck, and now on top of all that, she lied to me about being pregnant (all her POF photo's were pre-pregnancy).

F***KKK. I gotta ditch this bitch ASAP now. I gotta stick to sarging my college campus where you can SEE before you BUY