Hey guys,

New to the game and I'm still trying to overcome approach anxiety and develop my opening routine. One of my main sources of anxiety is my friends. I have 0experience so far with the routine I've been building in my head so the first 10-20 approaches are likely to feel forced or awkward. Therefore I have a two part question.

Should I try sarging alone at first so I don't have to feel the anxiety of friends judging me if I crash and burn? How will this affect my social proof?

Are there any good ways to prepare for the sarge before I actually start attempting it in the field? At this point I don't have it all perfectly memorized and I'm worried about tripping over my words, fucking up my stories, and just bad delivery.

Thanks.

Forget about the friends. You will approach less when you have your friends around you.

There is no social proof. It's just you and the girl. Forget about social proof.
Of what use is it if you are seen with 10 girls when you are not capable of escalating at all ?
Build the foundations first.

Routines will kill you. Just go, say hi and start meeting the girl, in time you will see patterns and improve.

Forget about everything you read. Don't read any more advice until you have at least some infield experience, otherwise it's just information overflow.

Just read 'Mode One' - no need for other products after that.

Fuck social proof - I don't go in with that mindset because I don't give a fuck. PUA tries to tell you that you should try to be popular - fuck that! I don't give two shits! All I do is have a good time and if I happen to be dancing with a girl I fancy I put my tongue down her throat. And when daygaming, social proof shouldn't even need to be considered.

As for approaching less around friends, who gives a shit if they're watching - my mates used to pat me on the back when I used to approach even if I didn't pull. And if they laugh at you then who cares? Most of them probably didn't even say "Hello" to a girl that night and instead probably just got pissed and hope to get so drunk they don't care what they approach.

As for routines, never EVER learn any 'cause you can't predict a girl's response and then you're stuck. Just go in and say Hello, say why you're talking to her and then have a conversation.

Ok so the first thing you're going to need to know is that you're going to get ALOT of information in this community that flips what you used to know around often. But there's only one thing you REALLY need to know.

Do whatever works for you.

I suggest you do get a solid routine down. To get a good solid one though will take a lot of research into various methods and techniques and how you can implement them at the correct time. Know this though, a good solid routine will get you laid only after you can tell it with such confidence and you nail every DHV, neg, or whatever in it with near-perfect accuracy.

The guys above don't really understand how the game works, or at least how it used to work at its core.

To answer your questions having actual "friends" to meet that your target can see will really help if you throw out a FTC(False time constraint) Otherwise they're not needed unless they are supportive of your PUA abilities and push you(Positively) to open sets.

As for the other part of your question, always practice your routine in front of the mirror, recite it in your head when you're bored, say it whenever. You'll find it'll make it easier to say it in front of anybody. Also, i'm currently field testing it, but you can test your opener on facebook and what you need to say to get a good conversation flowing. Facebook chat isn't really good for anything else though (In my opinion)

The main point is, practice makes perfect.

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