2010-02-06 Saturday: Random Art Show, Brooklyn Museum, Club Asia
Roster: AltEgo, Angel White Rose, Bahia, Dark Nes, Sparrow, Rufio
15-20 sets
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Rufio, AltEgo, and I meet Potato and her friend Daifu (Doctor in Chinese) at Whole Foods. Daifu is Korean, but she studied in China for six year so she knows Mandarin. To my ears, Mandarin Chinese with a Korean accent is terribly sexy. Daifu is also pretty and a little feisty.
We take them to see a performance art piece - men wearing high heels, dresses, and tights, blind-folded and trying to build or paint or tape random stuff together, all to the sweet sound of a guy banging obnoxiously on a piano.
After five, ten minutes, I have had enough, so I rally everyone for dinner. I love mid-game practice. After dinner, the girls leave shivering and we head to Brooklyn Museum. Dark and Bahia are there already. Bahia, AltEgo, and I walk around opening sets. This is where I pretend to get pulled into set by AltEgo.
AltEgo is feeling tight today and we accidentally pushed him into a two set of high schoolers, leaving him feeling disgusting. I thought they were petite college students anyway.
I have one long two set where Bahia wings me. I number close.
We push AltEgo into a two set. He ejects. "Did those girls say, 'Get the fuck away'?" asks Bahia.
"No..." responds AltEgo.
"You are going back in." AltEgo Asian yellow complexion turns green. After three solid minutes of coercion, Bahia forces AltEgo back into the same set. As AltEgo walks supposedly to his doom, Bahia explains to me that when he was in PUA Boot Camp, his mentor would do this to him to force him never to eject. I have never seen anyone pushed so hard.
I look at AltEgo in set and the girl is totally enjoying herself. I wing him, but I cannot for my life open up the obstacle or make her turn away from her friend. This is why I need to learn routines and patterns to distract girls with.
An aside: The 7 Day Inner Game Challenge speak about being completely honest with women. LoGun says that when one communicates with another person completely honestly and without the desire to impress, chemistry occurs more easily. Perhaps this is true, but I wonder if there is another complication.
When we go into set, the woman will quickly realize that we are there to pick her up. Why else would we talk with her unless truly the opening was completely situational. By completely situational, I mean the girl was already next to you and you just reacted aloud to something in the environment. If you are approaching in any way, she will very quickly know what is up. Now the woman wonders, "Do I like this guy? Do I want to talk with him?" Either we can help her answer the question, or we can distract her from the question completely.
The complication mentioned above comes when the girl is not asking, "Do I like this guy? Do I want to talk with him?" Instead, she may be saying to herself, "I don't want to be bothered. I feel uncomfortable with strangers. I'm with my girls right now; forget this guy!" We can try to assuage these thoughts, or we can distract the girl from these thoughts altogether. This is the great strength of good canned material.
After that set, AltEgo admits that he feels awesome.
Finally, we are getting ready to leave when I see a tall, black woman. I turn back to our group, but I know I will regret walking away from this girl. "Hold on guys," I say as I spin on my heel and do "the walk" toward this woman.
"I'll be honest: I saw you from over there - I don't know what it was about you that caught my eye, but I simply had to talk with you to see if you're cool."
We chat for a few minutes and I number close her.
Bahia, a friend of Rufio's (not in the community) who I shall call Fashion, and I head out. Alter Ego and Rufio stick around and sarge the area. Alter Ego has a really stressful night after that doing crazy RSD state pumping exercises like telling random groups of people that they are awesome. You can check out Alter Ego's Pick Up Blog for the lowdown.
Bahia, Fashion, and I grab some food on the way to Club Asia. We arrive and see several PUAs, including Angel White Rose. I introduce myself to a couple of them and start pushing people into sets. I turn to two PUAs - a white guy and an Indian guy. "Are you ready guys?" They nod. I turn to the white guy. "That four set by the fire place. You'll have a wing with you in a moment." After a deep breath, he goes (awesome) and hooks the group. I turn to the Indian guy. "Okay, go wing your friend." He looks at me incredulously.
"No, you do -" I turn away and start walking toward the four set. I don't care to hear him finish his sentence and give some excuse. It's one thing to resist opening a set. To resist going in to help out your friend...that is just mean. Of course, he is probably scared shitless. Maybe I should have been more sensitive.
The four set hooks. After a five minutes, the white guy tells the girls he needs to catch up with his friends. I wish he had stuck around to wing me, but he's new and ought to do more sets. I am trying to work the whole group by myself until I see Rufio coming into the set from the other side. After 20 or so minutes, I number close one of the girls and get a cool reading list from her.
We continue doing sets and pushing guys into sets, but I lose Rufio after a bit. The goal for tonight is for me to push him into set after set.
Upstairs, I tell Bahia to open a Chinese girl who is standing by herself texting on her phone. She's obviously bored. "Tell her that texting is not allowed in this club."
"I don't know man, but I want to use my own stuff here."
"Whatever you like man. Just open. What are you going to say?"
"Uh, I don't really know how to open in this situation. Okay, I'll use yours."
He stays in set for a while and she seems happy then ejects. "How'd it go?"
"I told her you speak Chinese and that I would introduce you."
I stay in that set for a while. It is a large group of Taiwanese people. The guys think I am cool and I tell them I am looking for a language exchange partner. This is, I think, where I really lose it. I should have gone completely sexual on them (discretely of course). They are all leaving the country next week, so that line of conversation dies quickly. I also could have pulled out some routines to distract as I escalate. With Asians, being up front, especially in a large group, may not end up well. Discretion is valued even if between the girl and you it is clear what is going on. Gambler would be good for this situation.
Anyhow, after a few more attempts at getting into the group, I get an Asian blow out. Instead of saying, "Go away," they collectively turn their backs and ignore anything you say. :-(
Later, I see a ball of Asian girls dancing on each other. Two black guys are watching them. "Guys, we need to do something about this."
"Haha, it's all yours bro."
"Woah, woah...I don't know how to approach women. Tell me what to do!"
"Just go up and say, 'Let's dance!'" I pretend to act nervous, which kills my AA.
"Okay, I am going in." I do their opening. I should have done one of mine and impressed the guys, but for some reason I did not. As I get blown out, behind me the two guys are cracking up. "You guys totally set me up!" I say jokingly.
"Nah, mad props man. You've got guts."
Later, I find Rufio and push him into random sets. Much later, I am at the bar trying to get water when this Chinese guy in a red shirt opens a set next to me. I will call him Terminator. He has zero approach anxiety and is very intense.
Obviously, the guy is a PUA. After his opener, the girl is trying to blow her out. "What are you talking about? I am not trying to pick you up!" says Terminator. I whisper "Kino" into his ear. He at first thinks I am the girl's boy friend. After a couple seconds of talking, he finally admits that he has studied Pick Up. He says he is not part of the community, though. He does his own thing.
We decide to wing each other and he asks my ethnicity. When I ask his and he says Chinese, I throw some Mandarin at him. Later, when we go into sets, he will randomly throw in, "Hey, this is my good friend. He speaks Chinese better than I do." Invariably, the girl does not believe him, so we start talking to each other in Chinese about how the girl looks funny or whatever, which just cracks us both us. It's particularly entertaining when the girl we are talking shit about understands Chinese. ;-)
My last set of the night is a set I winged Bahia in. We are talking with two Indians and it is going well when I realize they are part of a birthday party. There are some very cute Asians in the group. I realize Rufio is in set as I begin talking with one cute girl. "Hockey! How was the hockey game yesterday?!" he yells at me, which is our code for, "I really like this girl! Roll off!"
I turn to the girl's friend who is shorter and terribly pretty. She goes to my university and we hit it off really well. At one point, I take her by the hand and show her a drawing someone did in the condensation on the window. We are connecting rather easily - perhaps because this girl is just so chill. She agrees to come to MoMA with me if she's not in class and later I mention grabbing cupcakes near St Marks which she likes. Somewhere in the middle, I number close her and she gives me her first and last name. She says she lost her cellphone though, so today I send her a message on Facebook.
I roll out. No make outs, no crazy dancing, but I had a great night. Not only did I push Rufio into a bunch of sets, but I did a lot of sets as well.
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