- History with women

Compared to how some PUA-s have started, I haven't had it that bad. I had my first "relationship" at the age of 12, we went out a few times and held hands, which was pretty much it. Skip forward half a year and you have my first real relationship, I met her in summer camp, I used to sneak into the girls cabin to make out with her, making all of my little friends jealous. We dated for a few months, but neither of us really knew how to maintain a relationship, especially since she lived in another city. She was and is to this day a HB9, amazing body.

It was at this point where I started to listen to metal music and really got into the subculture (inadvertently peacocking, since I had a fair amount of accessories and extravagant clothing), and a bit less then a year after my previous break-up, I met this HB8 punk girl and I was honestly, really, really into her. I had introduced myself to her with a really bold move (at least that's what I thought back then) on my part, by just going up to her on the street and making conversation. She was really into me, she broke up with her old BF to be with me and even though we managed to officially start "dating", I had kept her in the comfort zone for too long beforehand and I quicky plunged into the LJBF zone. I was devastated at this point, for some reason, it was also the last time I ever cried in my life. Fast forward a couple of weeks and I started dating her best friend, not really sure why, maybe I was looking for some comfort or something in those lines. She was a solid 7, wasn't really in the habit of wearing that much make-up, could've upgraded her to a 7.5. Really nice girl, we went out for 6 months, but I was fooling around with other women. So, at the age of 15, I lost my virginity (not to my GF). I realized at one point, that I didn't have any feelings for her and was only with her because breaking it up would've been a hassle, but I did so anyway.

Realizing at the age of 15, that long-term relationships with people you're not really interested in are stupid, can change your life. Most of the sexual experiences in my life come from the year that followed. However, at the age of 16, entering high school, it just sort of became stale, with the occasional lucky chance at fondling women. Skipping forward a bit again, fall of 2010, being 18 now, I happened to meet this HB8 and I really considered a LTR with her again. It had been years since my last one and I just did the conventional AFC routines on her, even bought her a rose, and while she showed some interest, it quickly fell into the LJBF zone. FML.

- How I found the Community

It all started in 2007, when I was, through coincidence, visiting an old acquaintance of mine, who I hadn't really been in touch with for years (and haven't been in touch with in the years after). At one point, the topic of conversation happened to be women, and he was telling me, how successfully picking up beautiful women was more of an art-form and had less luck involved than the average AFC might think, never really saying anything about the community or such. He proceeded to show me an episode of the "The Pickup Artist" and while it piqued my interest for a while, I soon forgot all about it.

Years later, the combined factors of failing to seduce an amazing girl, being on the dry for 4 months thanks to the whole charade with her and seeing one of the latest episodes of HIMYM (Ted gets together with Zoe), suddenly made me remember the encounter that happened years ago. Thanks to a quick googling, I found the VH1 show again and in the process of watching it, I also found, the apparently famous, "The Game" by Style.

I was taken in instantly, fascinated by it to no end and slowly introduced myself to the dynamics of the Mystery Method. I planned to do my first field test on Friday and even though almost giving up on the idea after an exhausting day, I went for it.

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"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." - Al Capone

February 18th, 2011. Field Report #1

I got home late, changed, and was out of the door around 21:40. Met up with a friend, who has been my main wingman in the past (even though he's a bit of an arse and tends to cockblock me just to mess with me on occasion, of course I gladly return the favour ). He was at some 14-15 year olds apartment party (really creepy to see a close relative of mine there, wasted off her ass). Even though the age of consent over here is 14 (16 if the age difference is a bit larger), most girls this age don't really attract me in that way. My friend though, was reluctant to leave at first, but we left for the clubs shortly after I told him if he even gave a dirty wink towards my relative, I'd probably knife him or something.

We started to hit places we don't usually go to, but the first two clubs were dead (small town), I mean there were more employees than customers, so we went to a cafe where we knew there was a party. Trouble is, I knew almost every single person in the room, but just for practice, I approached a few sets I really hadn't known that well.

Set #1
Two girls sitting at a table, looking a bit bored, I started off with asking their opinion on some random stuff, threw in a FTC and managed to get hooked when I pretended to be leaving. The target (HB7) started really getting into it, but despite my efforts to entertain the obstacle(pretty equal HB7), she just didn't respond at all and soon dragged her friend away with her.

Set #2
Actually one girl (HB8), again someone I vaguely knew and had met before, came to our table, asked something from my friend and sat down with us, but after he had used some routines I thought were stupid before I knew anything about the PUA methods, she started to get really annoyed with him. I frowned at my friend, shaked my head and got her interest with a few stupid stories and did the Cube routine. This worked so well I got startled a bit, she was just staring into my eyes at one point, she went along with the compliance test and everything and throwing IOI-s all over the place. At this point I realized that going forward was difficult, I honestly didn't want to attempt my first kiss-close infront of all these people I knew and had to spend time with every day, I couldn't figure out anywhere to bounce her at that point either (it was -26C outside, bit nippy to be outside for too long, your snot tends to freeze), and I ejected. Funny thing though which I learned later that night from a mutual friend of ours: she's more into women than she is into men, her taking interest in any man is apparently a rare thing indeed, so I'm kind of proud of that.

I was really tired by now, had a long day behind me and just had some fun conversation with friends of mine. Out of curiosity and for practice I tried a few openers on a HB7 friend of mine, she leaned in to me so close I swear she put her head on my shoulder and her hand on my lap to talk to me after I just asked her if she thought kissing was cheating. Soon I got up to leave, but I saw this HB9 standing at the doorway (I knew for a fact she was taken, though, so no expectations) and I went up to her.

Set #3
I started off with a generic openers, asked her opinion about tattoos, cheating, and whatnot. I got her interest, but I really amazed her then with the ESP thing:
ME: "Think of a number from 1-10, ready? Is it 7?"
HER: "Oh my god, yes!! How did you do that?"
ME: "It's a theory that people who are really compatible with eachother have a higher chance of getting this right, try it on me."
HER: "Wow.. Okay, ready?"
I nod.
HER: "Is it 4?"
No, not really.
ME: "Yeah!"
HER: "Wow, really? Oh my god!!"
Heh, gullible. She started playing with her hair and stuff while I started looking for my coat while chatting to her. Soon we were interrupted by a friend of hers who started yabbering on about something, but at this point I was too tired to even care, put on my coat while seeing her look over her friends shoulder constantly, towards me, I just smiled and left around 03:00 in the morning.

- Problems to resolve
1. I really need to find new "playgrounds" to get proper sets from, total strangers, damage control sucks.
2. More confidence in kino escalation and going in for the kiss-close, I'm used to waiting until the very last moment and getting buckets full of IOI-s before even thinking of kissing the damn girl. I need to get over that and just risk it.
3. I need to internalize more good material, I had a few of those awkward moments where I just ran out of things to say and I kept repeating the same damn openers on everyone. I mostly filled it with casual conversation about things, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I'd feel a lot better having more backup tricks up my sleeve.
4. My body language could use some work, I find myself moving into positions automatically that would show me off as needy or DLV me, or both.
5. Practice, practice, practice.

- Conclusion
For my first field test, I think I did great, I had fun and got to entertain a few beautiful girls. After reading a lot of these other AFC2PUA threads, I even feel a bit overambitious trying to go this far on my first try, but I guess it's okay since I do have some natural game and previous experience.

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"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." - Al Capone