inside_job Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 I wanted to wait a few days before writing up a field report for my bootcamp, to let the buzz and euphoria of what was an insane weekend abate, and allow myself to process the knowledge and experiences I’d gained. Well, I’m still processing. And buzzing with as much… nay, more positivity and excitement than after the boot camp. It’s been 2 weeks since I did my bootcamp in Seoul – 2 weeks? Damn, it feels like a lifetime away, I’ve done so much that I would never have expected myself to do before getting mixed up with the crew from Pickup Asia. I’ve opened girls on the subway, bars, the street, art events; been on numerous dates where I’ve kino-ed, kino-ed, kino-ed, bounced to different locations; had a heap of fun, taken girls to my apartment and just recently… but I’m getting ahead of myself. Let me start at the start. I’m late. I’m always late. My New Years resolution this year is to be on time for things – seems like a more do-able and positively framed goal than others I’ve made in the past. I’m late and text BlueMystery to let him know. I’m also a bit hungry, tired, about to do… well, I didn’t really know what, but something well outside my comfort zone. I want to back out, go home, and be safe and sound in bed. It’s Friday night and a friend texts me – I could meet him, drink, not talk to girls in the bars where I’m supposed to be having fun, do the same shit I do most every weekend. I try not to think about it all too much. Just roll. Blue replies with where they are. I take a deep breath and plunge into the restaurant and whirlwind of a weekend. BlueMystery and Energy are there. I’d first met them during a seminar Blue had led two weeks previously - “awakening the man within.” I had been impressed at the seminar – by Blue, by the material, by some of the other people there from the community, by the potential. Gentleman is there, who was also at the seminar. GoGetHer, as he would come to be known 48 hours later, arrives shortly after as does RedpoleQ. BlueMystery, with RedpoleQ and Energy alongside him, is leading the bootcamp. GoGetHer, Gentleman and I are on the receiving end of their tough love. We eat, drink coffee (no liquor for the next 48 hours. Confession: I had a beer after I got home from Hongdae the first night – I was buzzing hard from the night and needed to chillax), and introduce ourselves. I first read The Game by Neil Strauss about a year and a half ago. It had intrigued me. Confused me. And challenged certain previously held beliefs. I’ve sporadically and haphazardly read up about Pickup online, watched some videos in the tubes and even tried out a couple of isolated ideas. But I don’t really have any game plan, no structure, no system. I’ve also been in a LTR, and so for the most part while this stuff I’ve been discovering is interesting, it hasn’t seem very relevant. That LTR ended 4 or 5 months ago (although we still hook-up fairly regularly) and I haven’t been massively successful in meeting girls in Korea since (partly due to the safety net of hook-ups with my ex). I came across the Pickup Asia website, went to the free seminar, liked what I heard, now I’m here. Why am I doing it? Over my 3 years in Korea I’ve completed the major goals I set myself – professionally, financially, physically. One area of my life, social interaction, especially interactions with women, now presents itself as an area for development. If I can improve this then, well, I’m sure something else for development will present itself in due course. So, I want to develop the skills and knowledge to meet, attract, sleep with women. Have control over all my social interactions. As Dre says, I just wanna fuck bad bitches, All those night I never had bitches. Or I say something to that effect. BlueMystery goes though some material about attraction and qualifying, opening and kino. Some of its familiar, much of it is new, all of it is well-explained and forms a logical, self-consistent system. There’s a lot of information to absorb. Another coffee. As we make moves to go to a club Blue walks me through the restaurant/bar and tells me to open a couple of warm-up sets with some question about a restaurant. Fuck it. Ok. They dunno about the restaurant. Or they tell me. Whatever. Eject, eject, eject. That’s already more girls than I’d usually have spoken to in here. Wasn’t hard. We take cabs. Open a few sets in the street. Get into a loud, crowded club. Coatcheck. Walk through. The games begin… Inside_Job, go open that 2 set. Gentleman, the 3 girls dancing there. GoGetHer, open that girl on her own. Over and over we open, BT-spike, qualify. Or try as best we can. Lock in says Energy. I sit down with her. I freeze, out of things to say. What have you qualified her on? Blue asks me... again. I open. I eject. I open. They pop. I open. I bring in wings. I wing and am brought in. I feel RedpoleQ move me to her side, take my hand and slip it onto her back. A few seconds later he moves my hand again. Some water. A beer, a fag and a sit down would be nice. I pull out several pages of A4 with my Korean stack on it to find something to say – she finds it odd but goes along with it. So does another. I plough on, using the same openers and BT-spikes. After the club we debrief in a coffee shop for an hour. We’re tired. I’m feeling ropey and my bed is calling. I ride the subway towards home with a dozing-off GoGetHer who woulda been riding that green line round in circles. As I near familiar territory I’m able to gather my thoughts, reflect and wonder what the fuck just happened? I spoke to more girls in a few hours than I probably had all year. Some of them weren’t interested but there were also a lot of really good interactions. I genuinely liked some of them and things were going well. Why didn’t I get that girls number, she was awesome, I love her, I want her to be my girlfriend. I want them all to be. I’m late. Again. I spot their table. The COEX food court is busy with Saturday afternoon shoppers, a week before Christmas . Blue talks for an hour or two about comfort, seeding, bounce locations, stuff, words, Dr Pepper, where’s my phone. It’s hard to stay focussed but I’m trying. We start. I open a set and bring GoGetHer in. They’re in the middle of a meal, but stop eating while we talk to them. I start feeling kind of rude, I mean, we’ve interrupted these poor girls, whom we’re not particularly into, in the middle of their meal, which is getting cold, to run game at them. Standing up I want to eject: strong voices order me to sit back down since my wing is still in. Ok, fuck it, lets roll with it, they haven’t told us to go away, in fact they seem to be enjoying our attention, albeit they’re somewhat confused by the situation. GoGetHer and I stand up together, pick up their bags, hand them their coats, insist they’re coming and pull them away, dinner uneaten, to go to the seeded bounce location. I link arms, she holds my hand, intertwining our fingers. We lead them to a couple places. I don’t even remember what I was talking about, GoGetHer wants to eject I think, I tell him to give me two minutes to exchange numbers, then we get back with the group. I don’t form a solid time-bridge and know I’m not going to follow up, since I was never that interested in her. But damn that was mad cool fun! Nothing much else bites in COEX for me. Day game is so different to the club, and I start finding it hard to stay animated and energised. We debrief. I shoot home for a short rest and a cup of tea. Then it’s out again to Gangnam – the plush end of town. Another coffee shop and I’m late and BlueMystery is talking about sexualising interactions and a couple of routines. I’d read about SF and conversation game online, but until he demonstrated and explained (using us or a willing RedpoleQ as the target of his sexual attention!) I hadn’t understood their value and how and when to use them. We talk about bounce spots. I’m trying to review everything from the past 24 hours. We go to the club. Oh. Snap. This place was off the hook. Mad hot women. A lot of real money peeps. From then it’s a blur of opening so many sets and girls. Getting blown out a lot but just having fun and calling Next. Near every girl in that club must have gotten spun round by one, if not all, us! I number closed and sort-of time bridge a J-girl early on, but can’t bounce her to the coffee shop cos of her friends. Another hot Korean-American that I could have number closed but shit got fucked up in the confusion. RedpoleQ keeps tickling me to get me to goddamn smile. BlueMystery is keeping me pumped up and pushing me hard into sets. I learn a lot – this spot was tough, but man it was FUN. Debrief as usual in a coffee shop, long-ass subway ride, I hit KFC on the way home, and sleep a happy sleep. I arrive on time! At last, on the third and final day of bootcamp I arrive on time. Myeongdong – a shopping district in Seoul on a Sunday afternoon. We create Hero-stories for ourselves, which Blue re-structures and repeats to be much more effective. We get out in the street and mall, and start working it. I’m having trouble adjusting from night to day game… from the intensity of the club last night to a more subdued Christmas shopping vibe. My minds pretty much broken from the last 3 sarges, and I’m really not feeling it. I do some funny openers using props around the mall, but don’t really progress the interaction well. I’m in a daze, there’s so much information that’s been poured into my head. I need some quiet time to reflect and organise it all. They keep pushing me. I open some sets but either my heart or head just aren’t in it. We head to the final debrief spot. GoGetHer and Gentleman are already seated downstairs with some girls they bounced there I guess. I haven’t had a great day. There’s a girl on her own at the window looking pretty bored whom someone suggests I open. Ok, final one, then I can chill and rest and think… How’s it going? We’re gonna start the debrief in a few minutes, says BlueMystery as he comes over to the me 5 or 10 minutes later, still talking to this girl, during which time I’ve run my hero story without using any English cos of low language, found out she manages a Japanese restaurant around the corner, and gotten into comfort. She puts her number in my phone, I call, she answers a bit confused, but she finds it funny, as do I. I ask about her schedule and set a vague time-bridge to stop by her restaurant since there's almost no other possible times (which I really should get round to since she responded to a text message ping at NYE). I eject, just before the friend she’s waiting for arrives. I’m so glad I opened that last girl. She made all the other whack sets that day worth it. We debrief, then go for dinner together. It’s been one of the most challenging experiences of my life. Doing things I would never have imagined myself capable of. Learning a massive amount of information that will take a long time to fully assimilate. Working alongside some awesome guys and incredible teachers. Reflecting deeply on myself: who I am and who I want to be; what I want in women and what I want out of life. At dinner we each talk a bit about our experiences. We chose or receive names as initiation into the community. We comment on each other, with GoGetHer and Gentleman’s impressions of me being especially touching and meaningful since the 3 of us have just been through this expereince together. That was just over 2 weeks ago. Since then I’ve had a pretty wild time. I’m continuing to redefine who I am and what I am capable of. Despite initial trepidations I think I did this bootcamp at just the right time in my life. At a time when previous goals, pursuits and indeed the decade have come to a close, the bootcamp and guys have propelled me into a new field of knowledge to pursue – I’ve got so much to learn it’s both daunting and exciting. Using what I’ve learned so far I’ve had some awesome adventures with women recently… I can’t wait to see what happens as I learn and practice more. It’s late (or early, so please excuse typos), this report is long and I gotta sleep a bit… I have a day 3 soon with a professional singer/actress who I day 2 f-closed on the floor of her music studio on New Year’s Day, my first lay in months (sex with my ex not counting) and something I don’t think woulda happened if not for the bootcamp – but those details are for another Field Report. Happy New Year, it’s gonna be a good one. Inside_Job Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eNeRGy Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 It was a great time man! You did great, and it's great to hear that you already closed a girl! Just wait to see what the next year will hold I like the way your narrated this as well. See ya around soon. Keep bangin'! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedpoleQ Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 I have a day 3 soon with a professional singer/actress who I day 2 f-closed on the floor of her music studio on New Year’s Day, my first lay in months (sex with my ex not counting) and something I don’t think woulda happened if not for the bootcamp – but those details are for another Field Report. Holy FUCK! I can't wait to read this. Welcome to the crew! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparrow Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 Wow, boot camps have come far these days. Congrats and welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueMystery Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 Welcome aboard Inside_Job. It was a pleasure to teach you during the Boot Camp. Now I wish you the best with your relationships and your sex life (which is becoming more abundant, surprisingly). Keep going. BlueM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eNeRGy Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 (which is becoming more abundant, surprisingly). No surprise here at all! There's a reason for it. He has game now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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