TOC Bootcamp Dec 7-10

[Don]

“MORE KINO”

 

“WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU MOVING OUT OF THE WAY FOR PEOPLE HALF YOUR SIZE?!?!”

 

“Tap , tap GO! Takoyaki! Now!”

 

“STACK FORWARD!”

 

“Did you qualify?” “I think so” “Why does he like you?” “I don’t know” “You didn’t qualify! Do it now!”

 

The entire weekend hit me like a fucking truck. My head is still swimming in a sea of sets, half of which I don’t even remember. I have been having the weirdest dreams lately, namely of running stacks of routines in my head for what feels like hours. Let me see if I can take this slush that is the state of my mind and give some form to what was an awesome weekend.

 

Before that let me throw something more important out there. RedpoleQ and Allusion, I don’t think I will ever be able to express in words the change you have initiated in me. Even if I were to never speak to another girl again (which won’t be happening, I was already out today!) I have learned more and changed more in two and a half days than in twenty two years. You two went far beyond what was required of you. You could have turned your back on me at any time but both of you stuck there and pushed me far beyond where I ever thought I could go. I strive for the day I can be your equal in the field.

 

That said let’s get on to the boot camp. As I said much is lost in the sea of information. Sets blurred together as my brain tried its best to absorb the huge amount of stimulus that was being thrown its way. RedpoleQ noticed this as he was walking me to the bathroom to make sure I opened a set right away. I had the look of a dead fish by the end of the last session for a while.

 

LDB pretty much summed up most of my experience better than I can so let me pick some of my favorite sets of the weekend!

 

Day 1 was pretty much me getting acclimated to being blow or blown out. Kino felt as if a police man was going to rush over and arrest me like a salary man groping women on the train. Plowing felt as stupid as talking to a wall. I was wondering why Japanese girls didn’t get up and slap me when Alluision or RedpoleQ would be standing next to me yelling more kino or stack forward. And for some reason in my mind, Japanese guys were bigger than my 6’5 teddy bear ass…

 

My favorite set of the night was when I opened a two set, not once, not twice, not seven, but nine times until I got it right. RepoleQ wasn’t letting me leave until that set was opened correctly! Get blow or get blown out! There isn’t any other option.

 

Day 2 Day Game went a lot better than it did in night game. I only opened one real set as I was winging two sets for one of the other students who looked like a rock star. The venue of choice was the Hep5 Starbucks. I got my first bounce though we learned, quite harshly, that we needed to keep the girls engaged as we venue changed. They ended up running off and it was back to square one.

 

Day2 Night game at Sazae was, and will be for the rest of my life, one of the most enjoyable experiences. After three hours of inner game work with LDB, we headed to McDonalds for a quick rundown of what we were doing that night. This fell to pieces when all of us opened sets. And this is where the craziness of the night started. As I am in set, Allusion starts telling me to do some crazy shit. I start coming up with some of my own. I steal her scarf, I judo chop her in the face, I push her away… The whole time I am thinking what the fucking hell? Why would this work? Does it matter? That set was about 20-30 minutes long because McDonalds was closing or it would have been longer!

 

Enter into Sazae and let the night of crazy shit begin. I started out the night with Allusion. He was out to break me of any social shame I still had… which was a lot. The goal, do crazy stuff and make it fun, hell even if that cost me the sarge. I opened my first set which was a wash and moved onto the second. After feeling like I hit a wall plowing, I turn to Allusion looking for what to do. He calmly says “What’s the craziest thing you think you can do.” as if not expecting an answer. I start tickling her but it was too little too late.

 

On to one of my favorite sets! I opened this lone girl by the dance floor. It was near impossible to hear so I thought there was no way to hook this. I was about to abandon it when I turned and saw Allusion glaring at me as if he was planning to kill me if I left the set. I grabbed her hand and quite literally dragged her about 20 feet to an alcove. I got all the way to a phase shifted state with her.

 

I won’t go into the rest of the craziness of the night but let’s just say I got elbowed in the crotch and got a drink poured on my shoe—and laughed them off like nothing. I AMOGed some Japanese dudes and broke them like twigs. One memory that sticks out is when RedpoleQ pulled out my routine stack and had me start reading. The girl barely seemed to care! To steal a quote from Allusion that I now say to myself all the time, “I am awesome!”

 

Day 3 was in a book store. I am by nature a really high energy guy so it is rough calibrating my energy to that type of environment. The day is a real blur as my brain was completely fried by this point. I felt all day that none of my sets were hooking. After a long talk with RedpoleQ it I came to a simply realization. If she is still there, the set is hooked. I am not FORCING her. She can walk away when ever. Hell one of my best sets was this super hot girl who I thought never hooked but I was there for 10 minutes.

 

After taking a quick bathroom break I got back into my state and managed to get a bounce with a girl who I talked a lot about music with! Sweet! “Let me go get my friend she said” and she wasn’t lying! Of course her friend was the set that blew me out a few minutes earlier. >.<

My head is STILL swimming after two nights of rest. When things calm down enough, I’ll add more but I wanted to get this up ASAP. Taking an Osaka Crew boot camp WILL change your life FOREVER. Do not wait!

 

The lovable Teddy Bear