Friday, February 29, 2008

The Instructors Exposed Intro

I just got back home from Vegas and the Love Systems Super Conference a few days ago, and it was hands down one of the best weeks I’ve ever had. For you who weren’t at the conference, just imagine the madness you will get if you have the equation: (Vegas * PU Instructors + Strippers) / Alcohol. If you were attending the conference I hope you had an equally awesome time as we instructors did; now it’s up to you to keep the ball rolling and the momentum going. The theory and insights you’ve got from the conference is enough for you to stop reading theory for a while and just PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE by going out and applying the stuff you’ve learnt - we know you can be as good as you want at this if you keep pushing yourself.

With some of the instructors here on the other side of the pond (more commonly referred to as “the cool side of the pond”), I hadn’t met all the other instructors before last weekend. We all had a kick-ass time, but naturally you are going to find yourself hanging out with some peeps more than others. As a tribute in their honor, and to help you guys get to know some of the instructors a bit better, I’ve decided to write up some of my thoughts on the different instructors that I spent the most time with in Vegas. Yes, it’s going to be silly and full of inside jokes. The common theme however is that they are a bunch of awesome guys that I had a blast hanging out with.

Here are the three parts:

Part One (Savoy, Sinn, Braddock)
Part Two (Mr M, Sheriff, Soul)
Part Three (DaHunter, The Don, Moxie)

To the instructors I haven’t got any stories on: I hope we can hang out more sometime soon so I can discover your darkest secrets and post all about ‘em on the world wide web…

Also I want to give a quick shout-out to approach coaches Prestige, Sphinx, Blair and Kisser. You are all great and I had a lot of fun with you guys!

- R

Thursday, February 28, 2008

The Instructors Exposed Part One (Savoy, Sinn, Braddock)

Savoy

Savoy’s mother must have slipped some protein powder into his feeding bottle and let him suck on a protein bar instead of a pacifier, because this guy is a tower! In fact he is so tall that he was once drafted as the #1 pick for the Los Angeles Lakers, but the league regulators thought it was an unfair advantage to be able to dunk without having to physically leave the ground, so he was disqualified.

Savoy made his first cold approach on a hot girl before he was even able to walk, and rumors have it he got to suck on her nipples. What I really admire about Savoy is that he’s not afraid to step up to the plate and show everyone what he got in terms of game (with over three decades of experience that shit is TIGHT). He could easily just chillax as the president of the company and leave the approaching and instructing in our capable hands, but he doesn’t hide behind his post - he shows everyone what game is all about. He’s kind of like a mafia boss in the sense that he worked his way to the top and now got power, skills and experience - something you don’t want to mess around with. His final test to prove himself worthy of the company was to fight a mini-shark with his hands tied behind his back. He gamed the shark to make it sit on his lap and then snapped the shark’s neck with one single, elegant leg-lock. He now wears the shark as a piece of jewelry on one of his fingers.

Always wanting his instructors to stay on top of their game and be the best in the business, he strategically picked the hotel in Vegas that’s the hardest to pull to, as a motivation to step up our game. The true test to see if you’ve got your end-game down is to be able to convince girls to stay the night at that hotel (more commonly known as “the house of LMR”). I do however want to take this opportunity and thank S for the extremely well-organized Super-Conference… it was awesome!

Sinn

I’ve talked about Sinn earlier on this blog, but I don’t think I mentioned his background story. It all started when Sinn kicked his way out of his mother’s womb, bit off his own umbilical cord, wrapped a bandana around his head and joined the local San Diego street gang. In the gang he learned the important skill of thrash-talking, and with his natural talent he quickly rose in the ranks. However, a rival gang once did a drive-by when Sinn and his crew was shopping iron-on stickers for their leather jackets, and hit him in the head with a well-thrown Black Jack chip. The impact knocked him out cold and if it wasn’t for a heroic couple named Albert and Mrs Albert Einstein, Sinn would have been a goner. The Einsteins taught Sinn how to appreciate the finer things in life (like reading books and how to time travel) and if it wasn’t for them, he wouldn’t have been able to travel back to the 70’s and steal the absolutely most ridiculous mustache mankind ever seen. You see, Sinn loves LMR so much that he felt the need to grow the most awful wide handle bar mustache in a desperate attempt to make sleeping with girls a challenge.

If he wouldn’t have been so gangstah he probably would have discovered the cure to cancer by now, but instead he seem to be focused on contracting AIDS so he then can frame-control the disease to leave his body.

Braddock

Braddock is the guy who stole your lunch money and fucked the most popular girls in high school. He then later went on to play in the NFL as starting quarterback for the Buttfuck Nowhere Rednecks. However, his life took a drastic turn when on Super Bowl Sunday, with the score 17-17 and 6 seconds left to go in the 4th quarter and 4 yards to go, he threw a meekly pass that was intercepted and ended up in a touchdown for the other team. His self-esteem hit rock bottom and he realized he needed to be friendlier towards people (but first he broke both legs of the guy who intercepted that decisive pass and then smacked his face in a table about ten times or so).

That the game itself wasn’t the Super Bowl (it just happened to be played on the Super Bowl Sunday on a muddy field somewhere in mid-west) didn’t seem to matter to B, which we all should be thankful for as he probably wouldn’t have been in the company if he hadn’t screwed that pass up (he’d probably been screwing Angelina Jolie instead). He also tried to tie his own shoe-laces once… he found it to be an overrated experience. He’s funny, a great friend and an awesome instructor. Every student who gets to work with B should consider himself very lucky, because this guy is truly a superstar.

- R

The Instructors Exposed Part Two (Mr M, Sheriff, Soul)

Mr M

Mr M is the undisputed master of indirect game. In fact, he’s so indirect he never says “hi” to a woman as that’s too direct for his taste. He’s so indirect he even cold approaches strippers with opinion openers in strip clubs... that’s pretty fucking indirect right there; they never see that shit coming. If Style flies in to set under the radar, Mr M flows in there like a fucking sub-marine. That being said, he probably got the sickest attraction game of anyone out there, and awesome at putting thoughts into words which makes him a top notch instructor as well.

On a totally unrelated note, I would never want to get in to a fight with the guy for two reasons:
1) He’s an awesome friend and

2) He’s Asian so I assume he knows some crazy kung-fu shit like how to snap your neck in say 2 seconds.

He says he once stayed with monks in a country far, far away “to find his inner peace” or something like that, and I’m too afraid to ask where and find out that it was the Shaolin monks as he probably would have to kill me if that secret was disco
vered by anyone.

Sheriff

The legendary dating guru, hurdey-gurdey, Sheriff loves me so much that he raced three bears on mini-scooters dressed in funny little hats down the strip in Vegas (he won by killing them all with a stick), juggle with 4 Gucci sunglasses set on fire and finally (as the ultimate test) actually went clothes and shoe-shopping with yours truly and Braddock in a desperate attempt to look cool (he found a really cool shirt), just so he could draft me from my original crew at the Super-Conference (the East-Side Gangstahs) to the team he was running (the South-Side Pussies). Now with that draft pick he single handedly turned the South-Side Pussies to the South-Side PIMPS, and we ROKKED the conference. Winging with Sheriff is the best thing ever, since he will gladly (almost over the top enthusiastically) take a bullet, jump on a grenade or throw himself in front of a haubitzer for the team.

On a more serious note however, the amount of life-lessons I’ve learnt from this guy is endless, he is super-smart and he’s without doubt one of the best (if not the best) instructors in the company. Also, his plan on moving to Thailand and live there for one year on a sunny beach does not make me jealous at all.

Soul

Also known as the guy who can talk about any sexual activity, or reframe anything you’ve said to something sexual, without a hint of blushing which makes him hilarious to discuss things with. He learnt direct game from the same guy who trained Black Mamba (Uma Thurman) in Kill Bill Vol 2 (you know that old Kung-Fu master Pai Mei), so he’s pretty fucking bad ass. The training regime apparently consisted of these three exercises:

1) Direct approaching a tree the amount of time necessary for it to be pulled out of the ground and fall into Souls loving arms
2) Identify if a girl is attractive within a timeframe of micro-seconds and start gaming her with the intent to get blown out. The punishment for failing to accomplish being blown out is having a belt buckle whipped in your eye
3) Eating 3 sandwiches specially made from the Caravan Café, approach a girl and then puke on her from food poisoning, turn it around and still lay her. A rumor has it Soul got laid 1,283.7 times during this exercise.

Soul's is so direct that the girl has already slept with him before he even done the approach. The only thing I don't like about Soul is that he'd most likely win over me in the game "gay chicken". I mean come on, beating a Swede (a country known for its gayness) with very little social anxiety, is pretty disturbing.

The Instructors Exposed Part Three (DaHunter, The Don, Moxie)

DaHunter

Having to grow up in the jungle in Guatemala made this DaHunter kid tough. His screen name originate from his early teens when he used to hunt anacondas for the pure adrenaline rush (the experience taught him to stay very unreactive to large creatures trying to hug him, the very polar opposite to Sheriff in other words). The body language he had to develop from being a hunter is a phenomenon in itself. It radiates confidence, status and a hint of “who was that girl I slept with last night?”. His probably the guy in the company who has the best “natural” game, in other words just chill into any random set, say “hey, whaduuuuup girls”, touch everyone like a street hooker on crack and then pull the hottest girl leaving anyone else scratching their heads, and the hot girl scratching optional part of DaHunters body.

The dude reminds me a lot of myself, except his rich… that bastard. Apple loves him though, as he has a notorious reputation of losing his iPhone… if it’s not being thrown in a random pool, it’s lost in a cab or stolen by a jealous girlfriend. Rumor has it Apple just closed a multi-million dollar deal with DaHunter where they now will be supplying him with a new one every week.


The Don

The Don claims to have been raised in the streets of New York, but I find that hard to believe. First he’s way to chill to be a New Yorker, and secondly he’s also funny. As we all know people from New York spend most of their time robbing innocent ladies and complaining about how crowded their city is, so the evidence is stacked against him (I have however seen him chat to an innocent lady once… turns out later she wasn’t so innocent in all aspects after all). He has now moved to LA to pursuit his screen and script writing career… You might have heard of the Lord of the Ring trilogies? No? Well, The Don didn’t write them, but he saw one of them once.

The dude has such a chill vibe about him (even with him being tall and built) he once chilled out a full room of ADD party girls without saying a word, and slept with all of them… twice. The name “The Don” is actually very fitting, as he could easily be mistaken for a mafia boss. He also claims to come out as the winner in a no-rules cage-fight against any famous PUA or PUG… could be a tournament to consider for the next Super Conference.
Truth be told, The Don is largely responsible for me being an instructor in the company by telling me that if I worked hard, he would invite me to one of his bootcamps as an approach coach. I have nothing but mad respect for him, and his jokes crack me up.


Moxie

Moxie lived a peaceful and quiet life in the Australian countryside until one day one of his beloved dingoes kicked him in the head and made Moxie lose all sense of humor. Formerly relying on his wits and humor to get by in life, he now had to sell his dingo farm in order to pursue his live-long dream to be a touring piano-necktie player (I know it doesn’t make any sense, but neither does being kicked in the head by a dingo or living in Australia). Moxie probably holds the Las Vegas record in number of lap dances bought in one night, a strategy he himself refers to as “always being in set”. He is also the inventor of the most powerful way to get rid of LMR, but this blog would probably self-ignite if I wrote how to perform the technique.

Moxie is incredibly funny and seems to love performing social experiments…

- R

Friday, February 8, 2008

Macintosh Tips & Tricks To Impress The Ladies

My buddy and Love Systems approach coach Scott Rose has this funny video series up on his site. The series is called "Macintosh Tips & Tricks To Impress The Ladies" so if you have some Macintosh skills and want to impress the ladies with 'em, you should definitely check the series out to get some inspiration on how it can be done. Even if you are not a Mac geek it's always neat to see some in field videos, so check it out.

Keep in mind that this is recorded before Scott started using (and helping out at bootcamps with) Love Systems, so he was a little rough around the edges (compared to the smooth geek-pimp he is today) but nevertheless I really enjoyed the two episodes and look forward to the third part, and I don't even have a Mac :)

Scott is a great guy and will also be at the upcoming SuperConference in Vegas.
His videos can be found HERE.

- R

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Psyched About The SuperConference!!!

The SuperConference is around the corner (22-24 Feb) and I can’t remember the last time I was this psyched about an event… ever.

I mean, just look at the line-up Savoy’s been able to put together… you will rarely (if ever) see such a spectacular line-up of gurus under the same roof again.

As much as I’m excited about the conference itself, I’ve never been to Vegas before and as the degenerate gambler I am, I’m absolutely 110% sure I will love it… also, hanging out with the Love System crew is always a blast and having us all in the same place at the same time is something that certainly doesn’t happen every day.

If I was new to this game and hadn’t taken a bootcamp, I would beg, steal or borrow the money to go buy the gold level of the SuperConference… it’s going to be amazing, and with the range of different instructors present… you are going to jump start your game big time - an opportunity like this one definitely does not grow on trees. In my opinion, the seminar portion of the conference (the silver level) is so underpriced it's ridicolous, but I'm also glad it's cheap so a lot of guys can hear about the new material that's going to be dished out.

Now I want to point out that I don’t get a dime whether you sign up or not - I’m just very, very, very excited about this conference (but if you *DO* sign-up after reading this, don’t forget to enter the super-secret sign-up code “RokkerIsTheBestEver0001AndHe’llRokkVegasBigTime626262” when you sign up).

If you do swing by the SuperConference, make sure you come up and say hi to me and we’ll have a chat. I’ll be the hot Swede with all the women around me.

And oh, I want to send out big thanks in advance to Sinn and Braddock for the free money they’ll give away at the poker tables. I’ll spend it on upgrading my wardrobe.

- R

Monday, February 4, 2008

Jet Kun Pick Up Do

For those of you who's been in the community for a while now, I bet you've noticed the trend of the community to go from a more "technical" view of the game (or what we often refer to as outer game) to be more and more focused on yourself – your beliefs, mindsets and attitude towards life – more known as inner game.

The technical era, with Mystery's old strict model on how interactions work and super secret NLP patterns and what not, dominated the scene a few years back but the last year or so the focus has definitely shifted towards being more focused on inner game. We are now striving for a more free-flowing form of seduction; something Sinn refers to as "the Jet Kun Do of pick-up". What that means is that there's no set script for how every interaction is supposed to go down – but you need to be prepared to handle it with calibration as you go along. You do what’s necessary to achieve the results you want - if it means to break "a seduction rule" or two to get the job done, so be it.

That certainly doesn't in any way mean that we have thrown the emotional progression model out of the window (remember, it's a model of the stages every interaction needs to go down, but it's definitely not a script that tells you how you should do it), it just means that every set is different and you should have the skill-set to handle it whether it means going indirect, direct, improvise, use a routine, do something that normally would be "wrong" in terms of seduction rules if it serves a purpose, and so forth. So in other words it means that you aren't limited in any way, but incorporate all the ideas floating around in the community and put them together to create the style that fits you the best and get you the best results.

But to be able to perform this "Jet Kun Do of pick-up" (see it as the pinnacle of pick-up) your inner game has to be really tight or you won't be able to pull it off. It's no longer about "tricking" the women with routine after routine, secret NLP patterns or "fake it until you make it"; it's about sucking her in to your amazing reality and awesome lifestyle. If you lack the inner game to get the amazing life you deserve, and truly feel like you deserve it, you won't be happy - and all the outer game in the world won't be able to change that.

All the talk about inner game may be frustrating for you who are just starting out. All you want to know is how to open hot girls, right? Who cares about advice like "see it as a free-flowing form of seduction maaan *puff the joint*" when you are terrified of even approaching? If you were like me, all I wanted to know when I started out was what the hell to say as my opener...

Don't worry, it's all a process. We will still teach you how to technically open correctly, and we will still be giving out routines. To make a martial arts reference, you will still need to know how to actually punch a guy if you want to take him down, and not just only believe you can do it... that will surely get your ass kicked. There's still a big place for outer game, but I myself is pretty excited about the idea of a "free-flowing form of seduction"... I don't like to be limited.

We are in this game to increase the quality of our lives. Inner game is your path to a quality life. And what does a quality life lead to? Happiness. So in the end it's all a pursuit for happiness...

Welcome to the era of Jet Kun Pick Up Do.

- R