TOC Osaka Bootcamp Dec 7-10

[Little Drummer Boy]

Wow, what a lot of fun!!!

 

There I was just minding my own business, stopping by to talk to Redpole Q for a few minute before the bootcamp, and then head on my way.

 

But NO, that isn't exactly what happened. I get there and Allusion and Kid 44 are there too, not unexpected, but the guy whom i thought was one of the bootcamp participants turns out to be a writer interviewing the guys for a story. So they invite me to put in a few words as former bootcamp participant. It was pretty cool to talk, and reminisce about my first PUA experiences, and all the things I had never done before.

 

About a half hour or so later the attendees start to show up. The first guy was a big tall guy with a Teddybear vibe that Kid44 said reminded him of a great PUA he knows. For the purposes of this field report I am going to give them all names without their approval, that may or may not have any connection with their PUA names that to my knowledge don't yet exist.

 

So i will call the first guy Teddybear. He was a young student with an impressive amount of Japanese at his disposal, and reminded me the most of myself in my bootcamp in May. His size could be used for dominant kino and his baby face would totaly make the girls feel safe with him. The other two guys were tall and slim, one being a musician in multiple bands I will call him Rockstar(aka rocKstar2), for obvious reasons, and the other guy I will call him Volley Ball Star(vbs aka Beach Boy). Both of these guys were spoiled since their looks did most of the work for them, hence the star in their names. they looked the part.

 

So it started with the guys covering some theory, which I welcomed as a good interactive review. After some theory and having the guys open some sets in the coffee shop it was time to head out for some night game.

I was basically prepared to head out, after all these guys were here to learn and Allusion and Redpole Q where there to teach. So as everyone prepared to go Allusion and Redpole Q invite me along to approach coach these guys. Cool, I was planning to game tonight anyway and this was a new and interesting flip on it for me.

 

I spent most of the night with Redpole Q and Teddybear, winging for him while Redpole Q coached him, and timed my entrance to the set to best benefit Teddybear. The first set was a four set of 6/7's and shortly after he opened I went in to wing and it was fun! I had these girls eating out of the palm of my hand:-) I'd have to say this bootcamp was by far the best and MOST obstacle game I have run in a night. Teddy bear was pretty damn timid at first, just like I was, and his first sets where blowing out fairly fast because he kept dropping his kino. He was opening and hooking them though, and he made progress with almost every set.

 

I saw myself in him when Redpole Q sent him into a set and he didn't go, and started to ask us things we both just said ok yelled, JUST GO, and he did. There was a 7/8 2 set that he started, I went in and occupied the obstacle and he gamed (guess which), so he kept her engaged for about 20 minutes and the set stalled, or as most often happened at first, it started to stall and he dropped the set, oh the memories;-)

 

Teddybear wanders away and Redpole Q comes over to me and has me switch to his first target who was pretty warm by this time, she was Chinese and we connected on me having spent some time in china. I switch to the 8 with no complains and hook her fast, I spent most of the time talking fitness with her and she was into it. I have been getting a lot of reverse kino from fitness talk as fitness is a BIG qualification for me.

 

I go "make a muscle to her gesturing, she kino's my are and like it, but the point was for me to kino her bicep, then tricep, then torso, it was nice she was a solid tennis girl. The set slows down so Redpole has Teddy Bear and I take them around the venue to meet people, it was kinda clumsy, but we did manage to move them and get them sitting down with us. By this time I am drumming on the obstacles lap having a good old time and for some reason or other the set ended, new obstacles beside us, or Redpole Q just decided it was time to eject and open another set.

 

At this point Teddy bear had opened, hooked, switched targets and moved a set!!!

 

I didn't really get much for time bridges or number closes on many girls, but hey I was concentrating on wing game and mine definitely went up big time as an approach coach and wingman for a whole weekend. It was great practice and left the outcome completely a non issue , though some of the obstacles, and a lot of his target were well worth gaming.

 

The set eventually stalled, but now the sets where lasting longer and longer. Teddybear's main challenge was keeping the kino, and staying in set when he felt it was stalling. Deja vu for me. As the night went on he kept getting a little better each time, slowing down his movements, speech, kinoing more and getting longer and better sets.

 

I wander off to see how Rockstar and Volleyball are doing while Redpole Q debriefs Teddy bear on a set. They are in set, as usual with 8's or more all the time, with their target looking mesmerized. They were doing some pecking and some fast movements but for the most part they were rolling along really well (damn those tall good looking guys).

 

I come back to check on Teddybear and Redpole Q and he's in a mixed two set 2 guys and one 7 he was either holding her hand or doing some pretty strong kino now! the guys where pretty much amoged, and then he stops the set for a few seconds, step back still facing, and the two guys step back and benefit from Teddybears hard work! The set was his no wing just him taking one girl from two guys he basically hesitated and that lost him the set, but he learned from it, he learned how to keep a set next time.

 

Now that his kino and pecking where dealt with Redpole took Teddy bear to a mirror wall, stood beside him and asked him "why are you moving for other people???!!" Teddy bear being TWICE Redpole Q's size he got the point.

 

I will mention a solo set I had because of the irony that finished my night game on the train.

 

We all went for a debriefing the guys all did really well coming up with what the did well and what they will do better next time.

 

Their main issues where stacking forward, kino and calibrating their energy level.

 

Note to self write the fr asap after the field time ( lots more happened...)

 

I go to the train station and take a seat in the first car feeling bagged from a long night as an approach coach (but damn it was fun at the same time )

 

I usually end my night game by sarging on the train, I almost said fuck it, but no why not I though. I walk MOST of the entire length of the train when i see a woman who opened me at the club, 6 face, 7.5 body she was pretty much a fools mate, but I wasn't that keen, and really drunk. I ran into her several time on the way to the bathroom each time she complained about the long line and hadn't made the full task yet, since I was luke warm about her I told her I we could exchange contact info she finally went to the washroom. Honestly i though she might turn out to be a hold her hair while she puked type

 

I didn't see her the rest of the night. And then there she was on the train conscious on my train and not sick, hm. Ok I thought this should be easy... after trying to get her to stop at my station for 10 minutes it was a no go since she had to be at her sisters in Kobe for 9 am

 

I told her this was her last chance and how luck she was that she happened to be on my train, and that this was her last chance to spend time with me. No go I give her my phone number and do a countdown as the train pulls into my station.

 

I think I should have written the contact info on the paper and slowly handed it to her only to take it away again and say "come with me" OR picked her up and carried her off the train. Since the next train wasn't for another hour after she got over her mad...she may as well have somewhere warm to go...until the next train

 

(I would live feedback on this, I have never been able to get any compliance out of a this is your last chance frame and don't know if anyone uses it. I have carried girls before but this would have been off the train and I can't help but wonder whether i could have gotten away with it.

 

Ok day2

 

Saturday day game

 

Again I really didn't have plans to be involved but the guys invited me to come hang out and wing for some day game if i wanted, cool, I was up for it!

 

We meet at 3 and it starts with a very good theory talk about comfort

( I hope you new guys know how lucky you are the bootcamp is TWICE AS LONG as when I took it) so the new guys are getting much more time for both theory and practice. Everyone by the end of this bootcamp was WAY ahead of where I was after one day game and one night game session.

 

So, during the comfort theory talk Kid 44 really brought out and clarified for me some details I had either forgotten or at the very least wasn't as clear to me as I thought. I decided to listen intently as opposed to take notes, and jotted a few points most relevant to my current position as a PUA. I have been getting @ closes with very good regularity, and a decent amount of day 2's , but that then turn into days three's ...

I get good attraction qualification and comfort, but get stuck there. Kid 44's words crystalized and identified for me exactly what I needed to do to advance my sarges to the next level with consistency.

 

Ummmmmm seeding the time bridge and bounce, not just once but multiple times, and stack forward IMMEDIATELY. Followed by bounce attempts, then stack forward immediately until it hooks. I should know this but like so many things we all have our sticking points, and this WAS mine, now that I have identified it I will fix it to advance to the inevitable outcome we all strive for;-) Between better seeding of time bridges and bounces I will also be seriously tightening up my logistics to a kick ass level:-) The comfort talk was very beneficial to me personally.

 

 

After the talk it was onto more day game, I winged on a few sets, but it was mostly the guys going together or solo, and with better results after their increased field experience.

 

The main day game set I remember was with Rockstar, Redpole Q was getting us to bounce and both Rockstar and I weren't very congruent about the success of the bounce, we did it anyway. We where bouncing to shopping him for shoes and me for a hat. It didn't go but it was practice and extending our boundaries. After a few more sets, we took a break for supper.

 

Teddy bear offered to buy me supper for the chance to talk about identity development (not my best area, but I too am working on it and we came up with some good stuff to get him started toward his identity goals). I also gave him some tips and tricks for slowing his movement and speaking cadence. He was a highly ranked national swimmer so we talked about visualizing his swimming cadence to slow his other cadences. I also showed him a one breath relaxation exercise I developed years ago when I was very into meditation.

 

We chatted about body language and we watched the body language of other people, then I had him guess at their status based on what he saw. On the way back I demoed dominance by walking through a group of guys as they moved out of my way.

 

Then we wandered around Umeda for a while talking some such pick up related topic. Near the end he asks me if I REALLY thought he was making progress, so I had him give me 10 things he could do now, that he couldn't last week, and had him stand in front of a window and told him to repeat the same question he asked me to "that guy looking back at him".

It worked great, and HE answered his own question knowing the truth of the answer.

 

We meet up with everyone for night game. Saturday night game was FULL of amazing stuff from these guys. Again i was mostly working with Teddybear and virtually always saw Rockstar and VBS (hey it's long so...) in set and hotties cooing over them.

 

So again i will focus on what I saw, and in terms of progress made Teddy bear was the superstar of Saturday night game.

 

The first set I saw him hook was a 7/8 lone wolf that well, (I wanted) he was doing really well she was all keen and he didn't see it. he starts to eject from the set and Allusion pushes him back in. In seconds he's moving her to isolation! It was awesome to see, she was still really keen giving crazy IOI's ( I supposed she could have humped his leg to make it more clear) Teddybear ran the set for about 10 more minute and it ended (not sure why).

 

This time I did a lot less winging because he was handling full sets a LOT better, I only went in at Redpole's cue or when I spotted trouble. So now he's running set by himself getting a ton of experience and many sets. His kino was better, his tempo was better his body language way WAY WAY better. When he was in small sets and there seemed no need for a wing I did some of my own recon and opened a few sets. On of my faves was a sexy little 8 in a 2 set and her 8 I really should have engaged the obstacle better friend:-( I opened her with an offer to trade my bracelet for her hat, she didn't understand, but it opened and I hook it anyway. Some attraction, then the fitness qualification ( I so love this one I get to kino almost any part of her body and she's ok with it, AND I know what her body will feel like later:-)

 

So I am feeling this babes torso, and I see the obstacle (whom I did not open, I know always open the obstacle) coming back into the set after wandering around nearby. I try to fitness qualify her and do torso kino which blew out the set. It was a textbook error and a textbook result.

 

I go back through the club and find Allusion now working with Teddybear

next thing I know he's amoging two guys out of a set using beautiful dominant kino with a big strong shoulder pat to both of them and the kino moved their whole bodies. It damn near brought tear to my eyes to see this kind of kino from a guy who previously made kinoing a woman look like her body burned his hand. I say to Allusion that it made me feel like a proud father to see it though i just arrived in time to see it happen. I told Allusion how now i understand what Redpole Q meant when he said it gives him almost as much joy to hear about our successes as to experience his own.

 

Years ago I had an experience that made it clear that teaching (in the right contexts is one of my destined vocations) when a student actually cares to learn anything and you see the light go on it is a immensely satisfying affirmation to a teacher. I just never expected to be an approach coach, and now i understand just how much fun these guys have teaching this stuff.

 

Allusion had assigned Teddy bear the mission of doing crazy stuff for Saturday night game, much of which i missed (in hind sight I think I would have had more fun watching what I heard about than the little bit of sarging and recon I was doing when it happened)

I saw Teddybear do great dominant kino through the rest of the night.

 

While I was gone... I missed him get a drink poured on his shoe!!! He went in to open, she didn't say a work and poured a drink on his shoe, he like a champ laughed and said something like that's so cute and walked away.

 

I also missed him getting elbowed in the crotch!! , and again handle it like a pro, finally i missed him going around doing fake karate chops to womens heads to open them.

 

The worst i have ever had is a woman grab my shoulders from behind and push me away. Clearly I need to push the envelope much further:-)

 

Allusion put himself in a very playful state and grabs the 8/9 hostess cavemans her the give her to me I do my jewelry thing on her and an obstacle comes in then Allusion sends her to Teddybear while I run obstacle game on the guy. She paws him, then tells the obstacle she doesn't want him touching her and the obstacle tells me LOL!

 

Nearing the end of the night Redpole sends Teddybear into a a FINE 2 set then sends me in to obstacle(NOW this is the obstacle game I like) she is soo keen I lot of time goes by and I don't even notice, the the guys say "are you done" I get the number close but have technical problems with the phone, then technical problems with my state and brain after repeated attempts to get the ir to work properly I. It was an educational end to the sarge though a stressful one.

 

We are leaving and everyone had a great time. Teddy bear looks like he's on something he's so pumped by the night he had. We go and do a debriefing. Then Teddybear Redpole Q and I go to Redpole's place so I can wait for the trains to start. Yes, hard to believe but we talked game and i got some great pointers from both Allusion about some aspects of my game and how to refine them.

 

 

To teach is to learn.

 

教えることは　教わること。

Japanese Proverb.

 

I learned a lot, and Teddybear, Rockstar, and VBS learned more than I did.

 

ldb

[Don]

Wow LDB you remember that better than I did. Nice choice with the name by the way. We decided that this was much more fitting to my PUA identity than my previous handle so we decided to change it. I'll get mu field report up sometime tomorrow but right now I am going out to game. Thanks for all the advice over the weekend LDB you really helped!

[Little Drummer Boy]

You're very welcome Psycho Teddybear, Until you do something for yourself you can't have any idea how much fun it is, being an approach coach was a hell of a lot of fun.

 

It's the one thing I experience with drumming, people love to listen and watch someone drum, but they have no idea what they are missing, or how fun it is to be the person drumming, which is why my drums have seen/ been shared by dozens, if not hundreds of people in the fourish years I have been doing it.

 

 

ldb