Program Review Las Vegas Bootcamp, by hrithik, Aug 07

Here’s my review of the Las Vegas Bootcamp on August 3-August 5. I’m going to split up in a few different sections [Instructors, Seminar, In-field, Personal Experiences, & Tips and Conclusions], with my personal experiences/tips sort of elaborating on the whole experience…it’s probably going to get to be a little long, so get comfortable! I tried to include the types of things that I would’ve found helpful myself when I was trying to decide whether to pay up the price for a bootcamp. If you have any specific questions about the entire workshop, I’m glad to answer them.

So, some background on me: I’m a good-looking guy [as Matador and one of the pivots (who shall remain nameless only because I don’t know if she’d want her real name in here) pointed out to me a few times over the weekend] who doesn’t have too much trouble attracting girls. At the moment, I have a very hot and smart girlfriend who is a year shy of graduating from one of the top nursing schools in the country. However, when it comes to girls, I’ve always felt that I never really took advantage of the opportunities that were presented before me, and as much as I may care about and think long-term with my girlfriend, I can’t help but feel like I’ve missed out on being with other gorgeous girls [I’m only going to be 24 in September]. So, I decided it was time to stop “being lucky”: I had always gotten by with my looks and the natural attractive qualities of my personality when it came to girls, and I’d finally resolved that I didn’t want this to depend on my looks but rather that I wanted to have a much stronger understanding of and much tighter control on how my interactions with girls go as well as how far they go.

I had a good number of questions and concerns about the whole thing, but I feel that Matador and Blitz did a really good job of handling them over the course of about 3-4 months because, well, I finally signed up, right? Originally, I was to do a 1-on-1 with Matador, but due to the legal battle going on with The Mystery Method, Matador was basically unable to meet with me to do it. To show how serious these guys are about delivering on their word, Blitz told me that Matador was offering me a spot at the Mystery Final Tour as well as the agreed-upon original 1-on-1 in Miami for later..who does that?? Ridiculously awesome! Anyways, I was really excited and a bit nervous at this point [the days leading up to the bootcamp weekend]. This just immensely added to the nervousness of actually attending the bootcamp, since I didn’t really know what to expect, and even felt kind of weird going to such measures as attending a class on how to pick up girls. When I first walked into the room, I really had no idea what to expect.

Instructors:

Mystery: From the very beginning, I could sense that Mystery was really passionate about the things he was teaching us. We were all sitting around, waiting for him to make his entrance, and when he finally walked in, he immediately had everyone’s attention; it’s just the command he has, and a certain presence about him – I just can’t describe it in words. One thing I have to say right off is that he was not nearly as extremely peacocked as I’d expected him to be [don’t get me wrong, he still doesn’t dress as conventionally as the rest of us do], considering that he has a whole theory based upon this and that there are enough descriptions and pictures of him to get a pretty accurate physical image of him. He introduced himself, and then proceeded to walk around the room and shake hands with each one of us [he even paused to talk to me about my name and where my family is from]. After spending time in the lecture with him, you feel like you can take on anything. He gave an amazing background in terms of psychology and philosophy mixed in with real-life examples of how these things manifest themselves. The most impressive thing for me was that he had no ego and never talked down to anyone. Honestly, Mystery has a lot of reason to be cocky and condescending [I’ve seen people act much worse for much less of a basis], but he never showed any sign of that kind of attitude; rather, treated each of us as his equals [he even shared with us a big secret that, and he even explained his reasons for having it on the down-low for now, further demonstrating to me that he was on our level, not above]. The other thing about him, needless to say, is that this guy is incredibly smart as well as quite eloquent, and you can’t help but be enchanted with his charm. I feel very privileged to have had the opportunity to not only meet THE man but also to go out and sarge with him, too! It also helped [especially me] that Mystery took some time to explain to us where he started from and how he had to work through literal trial and error to reach his level of success. I could sense at the very beginning from the other students [as well as from myself] that there was a feeling of disparity between the students and the instructors, like “We could never get to be ‘that good…’ ”, and it definitely helped me feel a little more at ease and reach a point of being more relaxed and natural, since it can be kind of awkward to actually be in a seminar to learn how to improve your skills with women, especially with guys who are themselves very successful with women.

Lovedrop: I 1st saw Lovedrop as I was trying to find the room for the Seminar, and he was on his cell phone right outside, and that’s when it kind of really hit me: I’m here, and I’m about to embark on what’s supposed to be a life-changing journey. Lovedrop was really chill in the classroom, and it definitely helped me to be more relaxed with the laid-back kind of vibe. It was great because he was still getting a lot of the information to us, but he was still able to keep it light enough by cracking some jokes so that things weren’t too hardcore and serious. It was also helpful because he went into a good amount of detail on relating the perfect vibe that you need to have to be in the ideal delivery of not only the verbal stuff but even of the non-verbal stuff like body language and voice tonality. He also provided a bunch of useful information, from different routines and the proper usage/delivery to the deeper ideas behind them. I think the dynamic between the instructors was really cool, too, because they were able to feed off each other’s comments and insights as well as throw in each of their own personal nuggets on the other’s lecturing. Lovedrop’s teaching overall was great, because he definitely knows his stuff and could simplify things for us, especially through his analogies. The only negative was that at times, it seemed [to me, at least] that he got a little carried away with the same ideas and ended up getting a bit side-tracked. But, he’d always catch himself and then be back on track.

Matador: Matador was pretty much awesome. I caught up with him after the 1st day’s Seminar portion, where he was standing in the lobby with Lovedrop, Kerr, and “D.” [I’m not sure of his “handle” or if he’d want me to put his real name in here]. I went up to him, and he was immediately warm and friendly, and when I told him who I was [since I had been corresponding with him through phone and email for a few months], he instantaneously reacted as though we were close friends who went way back. He then proceeded to introduce me to the others and provided my background, and had assimilated me into their group, just like that. And this impression was even before I’d had any Seminar or In-Field teaching from him. He wasn’t one of the instructors lecturing on the 1st day, but he definitely made up for it by really delivering on the 2nd day. He has an undeniable presence about him, and yet he is really easy to approach [if you can get past the feeling of not being worthy haha]. Just being physically around him, or even hearing him speak to you, causes you to feel like you can do anything! You feel as though you’ve just had all this deeper-level understanding of social dynamics simply diffused into your own mind. He’s really articulate as well, but he would also ask to turn the camera off and then spout off all kinds of random stories or points that were things that you’d do with “one of the guys” – meaning, despite all this intelligence and super-alpha demeanor, he is still someone you can simply kick it with. I feel like he is not only very passionate about all of this, but he is also very dedicated to it, especially for ensuring that the students have grasped everything that he is trying to get across to us and are able to take as full advantage as possible of his time and expertise; in other words, he really genuinely cares about the students’ comprehension and success. He also always seemed to have TONS of information to give and that there was just not nearly enough time to discuss everything he wanted to tell us. I’m definitely planning to take that 1-on-1 with him as soon as I get back from school, simply because he obviously knows his shit and can get it across to you by breaking things down into a very easy-to-understand way, and I think it helps that he’s only a few years removed from his own bootcamp, so it’s easier for him to relate to the students and thus be a sort of bridge between where the students ARE and where the students want to BE.

 ivots: One really cool thing that we had at this bootcamp was girls. Yeah, I realize that that sounds like a desperate, lame-ass loser-type comment [“Oh, my god!! Girls!!”], but hear me out: I’d never really had female wings before, and it was an awesome thing to experience – it definitely opened my eyes to just how important and helpful girls can be when gaming other girls. Having these pivots definitely had its own advantages, especially because both of them brought their own unique personalities, and they were there for one basic purpose: to help YOUR sets. And trust me, they did one hell of a job! I mean, talk about instant social proof [having girls with you] as well as effortless jealousy plotlines to run while gaming another girl [having girls hang on you]..it makes things almost too easy!!

Kerr: Having Kerr was a nice added benefit, at least for me. He would be in and out of the seminar, but each night, he would join us at the venue, and it was cool to get his extra insight. Especially on the 1st night [which was a sort of “observation night”], he was positioned perfectly at the bar to be able to provide us students a running commentary on what was happening with Mystery’s and Matador’s sets as well as things to watch for [both from them as well as the sets’ reactions]; it was like watching a game on tv and hearing the commentators talk about it..except that in this case, the commentator knew what the fuck he was talking about! On the 2nd night, he was able to catch a bit of one of my sets and gave me some real quick, in-the-moment feedback. Plus, having yet another guy watching us and providing tips and pointers in-field? I’ll definitely take it!

Seminar: Okay, so the web page has this list of all the different things that the bootcamp was going to cover..well, despite my doubts of them being able to do so, they did, in fact, cover every single one of those points! And not just by briefly mentioning it, but rather in such specificity that it was astonishing! Each of the instructors gave us a very detailed, in-depth understanding of the theory that the method itself is based on, plus they supplied us with a ton practical knowledge as well as canned material, to the point that I STILL recall things that were mentioned or discussed, a full week later! I’m still working on trying to internalize everything that we were taught and calibrate things to my own personality. I liked that the format of the Seminar included some interactive parts, whether in the form of certain drills or the asking of questions [personal and otherwise] so that we don’t end up just scribbling down a bunch of information that doesn’t make sense to us when we look back at them a few weeks later; instead, it forced us to take the knowledge we had and apply it to reason things out and make more sense to us in our own minds. I feel that if we hadn’t been so cramped for time, it would have been nice to run through some more of the exercises and activities that were mentioned by Mystery and Matador in the Seminar in order to help us internalize the theory as well as develop a little of our own practical material. Even during the scheduled breaks [which I feel we actually took less of than we were supposed to, because the instructors would lose track of time, which to me was yet another example of their tremendous dedication to their training as well as to the students], the instructors would take the time to answer questions, ranging from all kinds of topics from clarifications to community drama to random topics like music or travel stories [they are normal guys, after all!] and even some pretty outrageous sexcapades [with a lot of the “outrageous” part coming from Matador, like when he pulled a girl and fucked her in an alley behind 7-11 haha]. Even more dedication and passion on the instructors’ part was their willingness to stay past the scheduled times, even when they know we would be cutting things close, simply to ascertain that all the students comprehended all of the concepts that had been covered [since there was a LOT of information to take in, which they knew themselves and kept reassuringly conveying to us]. The only negative thing I have to say is that I wish we could have started earlier in the day or that there were 30 hours in a day or something, because it always felt as though we were running short on time and ended up having to go almost directly from the Seminar to the venue with just enough time to eat and/or shower in between, and I personally would have preferred some time to let my brain recover from the overload as well as to allow all the shit to sink in.

In-Field: For the first night, all of the students were excited to get out into the venue and watch the things we’d learned that day in the Seminar be put into effect by the biggest names in pickup. The main objective for this night was to observe the instructors properly running through sets [their verbal delivery, voice tonality, and most importantly their body language!] and then by the end of the night, to be opening and creating attraction in as many of our own sets as possible, and even push the sets as far as we could until we were literally forced out of them. Unfortunately, the venue itself [the bar inside the lobby of the Hard Rock Hotel] was a little weak [both students and instructors agreed] due to the low number of targets as well as the kind of cramped space of the area itself; however, I think it actually worked out better in the long-run for us because we were all able to watch the instructors without seeming to be leering or anything, plus we weren’t really affected by negative social proof [i.e. a bunch of dudes standing around without many girls] because there weren’t too many girls to begin with. The lack of targets also caused us to overcome sets with some pretty serious bitch-shields and just plow through, regardless of the reactions [and thus experiencing “reaction independence” 1st-hand] since the same girls were being approached by various guys as well as students throughout the night. I think once the students who did do their own sets got into their first couple of sets, it was much easier to start approaching with a more cool and confident attitude, almost trying to see just how badly we could really get blown out and then realizing that things don’t ever really go that badly.

The second night venue showed just how much we’d learned, both the theoretical side in the Seminar as well as the real-life application from being In-Field from the night before. It was good because there was no worry of a bad reaction from a set when opening because the previous night’s experience gave us all a “we’ve all been through the worst of it the night before, how could it be any worse?” kind of attitude: there were plenty of really hot girls around, we were in the VIP section in the club, we knew that our biggest fears of what could go wrong weren’t anywhere near the reality, etc, and it made sets much easier [and much more fun!] to run. The objective for this night was to open, create attraction, and move into comfort [with bounces, time-bridges, and isolations involved], and again push the sets as far as they’d go, ideally closing them one way or another. When comparing our results to this objective, I think that every single one of us had incredible growths in our skill-set as well as overall confidence in approaching and handling sets. The only complaint I’d have about this is that I wish we’d covered some more information in terms of how to perform the different closes in a little more detail so that we could apply them to our sets [if not now, then for later].

Honestly, the In-Field session was nearly flawless! The only real criticism I have about it is I would’ve like having a bit stronger/longer debriefing segment – I think it would’ve been a really good idea to do it with like personalized advice, based on what each of the instructors had witnessed from us.

One thing I must say is that the In-Field portion was just as helpful as I could’ve imagined, and I went into it with high expectations. Most of the time, it seemed like there was always an instructor around, watching me in action [because that was something I was worried about, with 12 students and only a handful of instructors] and able to give me feedback either during or after the set. Having these top-notch instructors with you in the venues helps make it possible to eliminate sticking points and to calibrate as you go, as with me. In other words, it basically raises the level of your game to new heights almost immediately. The other thing that served as yet another example of the whole “above and beyond” attitude that appears to be intertwined with the entire Venusian Arts way of operating was that even though the In-Field portion was supposed to end at 2am, these guys kept opening and running sets late into the night [I think I got back at about 4am both nights], and it wasn’t for themselves: I witnessed Mystery and Matador open tons of sets, many of which they could’ve easily bounced with, but instead they would eject or time-bridge so that they could come back and discuss it with us, then move into the next one. Frankly, I can’t say that I wouldn’t be tempted to just run a couple of sets for myself, but these guys were totally dedicated to their students and showing us how the game is played.

Personal Experiences: In the seminar, I found these things really helpful: On the first day, one really important point that both Mystery and especially Lovedrop emphasized was that the Opener is not that important [like Mystery’s latest involving something as random as Google Earth] but rather it was our delivery [voice tonality and volume] as well as our body language during the Openers that really mattered. We spent a fair amount of time discussing our approaches in the classroom. A big thing for me was Lovedrop’s emphasis on the whole overall ATTITUDE that we need to have rather than actual lines or routines, because again, it’s not what you say but how you say it. He even took it to this whole deeper level of Yin Yang, with plenty of examples of what belongs where [for example, being chill and unreactive vs. being very positive and high-energy], which I think really helped make it sink in better. Lovedrop also provided some exercises that we can use in order to keep our material creative when we’re in sets, and despite being seemingly basic, they are very helpful tips.

On the second day, Mystery’s discussion on building your own identity with all the different levels of achieving your desired identity [and examples of a bunch of cheap and easy things to do to be able to accomplish all this] was just unbelievable! You don’t have to be like Mystery [as in, having plenty of money and celebrity status through your own tv show] or Style [as in, having a ton of money and fame and being on the New York Times best-selling list more than once] – anyone can be whatever or even whoever they ideally want to be. Then, there was Matador, who just broke every single social interaction down to the bare basics, to the point that you sit there like you’re brain is numb, and yet you feel almost stupid for not having seen all this before. Seriously, by the end of the theoretical part of his lecture, I felt like I’d never be able to have just a simple conversation ever again because of all of the insights I gained from him. Then, Matador brought the instruction back to the more specifics in terms of the different phases of the model and provided a plethora of sound bytes for each phase as well as the “goals” of each phase that we are trying to accomplish so that we can then move on into the next one.

On the third day, we reviewed the important points from the previous 2 days and then moved on in our discussion of the model. Unfortunately, I had to leave early and was not able to take full advantage of things [especially because it turns out that they went out again on Sunday night, too]. However, if it’s not apparent by now, I got much more than I could’ve even hoped for out of all of this. We had some added bonuses of having Style talk to us [through Mystery’s phone]. Afterwards, Mystery showed us this cool little program that he really advised that we all use in order to keep our life organized [and obviously, it helps keep the girls sorted, too] and then had a slideshow for us of some of the girls from his life, to give us an idea of all that we can achieve in our lives, and not just from advancing in our skills with females but rather with our overall quality of life.

Out in the field, I tried my best to watch the instructors in their own sets, although I got there late both nights – the 1st night, I simply fell asleep because I’d been tired all week, and the 2nd night, my pizza took too long to arrive [and obviously I didn’t plan to shower and dress up until after I’d eaten]. So basically, I didn’t get to see all the sets that the instructors ran, but what I saw was more than enough to convince me that I at the beginning of what was going to be one hell of a change in my life! I made sure to be watching an instructor at all times on the first night, and it was really awesome because, even though I got there so late, since the instructors went way later, I still got a lot of opportunities to watch the correct execution of all the stuff we’d been learning. It was really cool seeing Mystery work his famous magic [literally and figuratively], and he was taking over just about every group of people while being completely relaxed and chill. I think one of the most important things I saw was Mystery talking to guys, even some who weren’t in sets with any girls, because I’m not afraid to talk to guys in sets but definitely am hesitant to do so [for whatever reason], and it really helped to see how easy and consequence-free it is. Then there was Matador, who was just effortlessly getting attraction from girl after girl after girl! There was one set in particular [that I think Matador had opened and Mystery jumped in as a wing] that was just great to see: the girl who Matador was gaming had a boyfriend..who was RIGHT THERE!! Mystery jumped in and occupied the boyfriend, after Matador had told them he was gay and continued to game her! It was just too funny to even be able to describe! Then they would “switch partners”, which they later explained was a ridiculously easy way to get DHV spikes to your target by having your wing brag for you! For some reason, based on all their tests, it doesn’t come off as bragging if someone else hypes you up. The best thing was, as all of this was taking place, I was standing with Kerr, and he was breaking everything down, play-by-play, and pointing out things to notice and pay attention to. What made this stand out for me was that it really drove home the point that nothing these guys were doing was some unknown, inexplicable phenomenon – in Matador’s words, “It’s all learnable!” By the end of it [because they would game her, then go around and do other sets, then come back to her], Matador made out with her and she slipped her number into Mystery’s palm as she left..and her boyfriend was right there for all of it! It was just unbelievable, but it was only an introduction for the next night.

There was one set that Matador opened while standing with like half the students, and he had this girl and her fat ugly friend hooked almost immediately. He escalated so quickly [another thing that just blew my mind: girls can be escalated MUCH more quickly than you’ve ever thought – Matador’s Kino-Plowing is just RIDICULOUS!!] that he was kissing her on the cheek and then on the lips within minutes of having opened her, all while her fat ugly friend was laughing and asking “Oh my god, what’s going on? She’s never done something like this! What’s wrong with her? Hahahaha”, and she finally dragged her away. I was standing a bit away and was actually where the 2 girls came over to, and the target started talking to this guy [her male cousin or something] and was making a big scene about trying to wipe her mouth and complaining about how weird “that guy” [Matador] was and reapplying her lipstick, and then a few minutes later, she brought the whole thing back up again. I was loving this, because the thing was, at first I thought “Oh man, maybe this shit doesn’t work quite like I was assuming it does…” as I was seeing this girl doing and saying all this, and then I realized that she kept looking back at Matador – despite the fact that she was “totally weirded out” by him and “it was so gross”, she couldn’t stop looking at him [and especially when he would be running game on another chick, she would be blatantly staring with an almost jealous expression on her face!]. Later on, I motioned Matador over and discussed this with him, and he explained that it was a classic example of her anti-slut defense kicking it, trying to save face in front of her friends and cousin, and I agreed, telling him about how she couldn’t stop looking at him for the rest of the night.

A great advantage of being in Vegas was that there were plenty of bachelorette parties around us, and one of them opened me and some students as we were in line for a taxi. It was especially cool because 2 or 3 of the girls were really talkative girls, so it gave us all another opportunity to run through our material as well as work on our calibration depending on the circumstances. The thing about it was that it really helped me realize that in the end, none of the sets that you open really matter – you run so many in 1 night, and the next night is a new night with new sets to run.

The 2nd night venue [Studio 54 at the MGM Grand] was hot! Especially because we got VIP access in the club, which just made things that much sweeter. When I got there, I was watching some of the students [and of course, Mystery and Matador] running some sets, and I wanted to get in on some of the action. I found Kerr, who started talking about game with me [which helped me get into a positive state and feeling like I could open and attract any girl in the club], and then he hooked me onto Matador as sort of his project for the moment since I had some catching up to do [due to my late arrival]. I told Matador to give me sets to do so he could watch me [because I can open sets on my own, but if no one’s watching, what’s the point? I can do that by myself any time]. It was an awesome chance to work one-on-one with Matador – he and I went around and opened like 3 sets to start off, all of which basically fell flat, but it was okay because it was only the warm-up sets that helped me get over the approach anxiety as well as the pressure of having Matador watch me [and I’d rather get shut down on those warm-up sets rather than a set I would want to hook], and then I told him to let me to try to open the sets myself and have him just watch me all the way through. The next couple of sets went pretty well, and it obviously helped boost up my relaxation mentality, and I realized that it doesn’t take much time or effort to get warmed up and be in-state.

I think one of the high sets of the night for me was when Matador and I opened up this hot-ass Asian girl standing with her friends [but not really engaged with the group]. Next thing I know, I’m in the middle of running game [so cool, because it was all “just happening” without me having to really think or over-analyze anything – it was just flowing] while Matador was talking to her friends. Then Mystery appeared out of nowhere, and he joined our group, too. From here, Matador and Mystery would take turns, with one occupying the group [which was a few feet away from me and the Asian girl at this point] and the other observing me and passing me tips along the way as to which routine to move into or giving me feedback on my body language. It was fucking awesome seeing Mystery in my set, especially because I got to watch 1st-hand what was going on and see the routines and the proper delivery, in essence witnessing the method at its best: by the originator himself! Mystery was really cool in my set later on, too, because he would start up a story [like the 1st line or so of a routine], and then he’d pass it on to me to take over from there, which I thought was a pretty tight wing-maneuver. And all the while, he would continue to whisper to me what I should say and do next. One of the best pieces of advice that I got [which I completely forgot: it’s one of those things that I know myself, and yet I still ended up forgetting to do it, and probably wouldn’t have ever realized it if Mystery and Matador hadn’t both pointed it out to me] was to get the introduction with the rest of the group before the obstacles become just that – obstacles. I very quickly won them over, and in the process I disqualified myself by dropping a few negs at the target in front of them. Then, I realized what I had to do next: bounce my target, or at least the whole group, back to the VIP area with me [and this was reinforced by having Matador and Mystery gesture the same idea to me]. We all moved back to VIP, and then I isolated my target on the couch and began running comfort routines on her [and even got in a few quick kisses here and there, trying to remember what I’d seen from Matador the night before – a girl can be kissed in less than a minute of having opened her, if done properly, so I had no excuse not to, right?]. Here was a specific point in time [because there were definitely others] where having a pivot really came in handy – Matador saw that I had the Asian girl isolated on the couch, so he sent over Blitz’s girlfriend to create a jealousy plotline [she came over, leaned across the Asian girl to reach me, kissed me on the cheek, chatted for literally 30 seconds, then kissed me on the cheek again and disappeared], and the effect was instantaneously noticeable! At this point, Kerr totally came in handy here and reminded me of one of the most important pieces of body language information there is [because again, something I know not to do (lean in), I was doing, without even realizing it] – lean back! I had been sitting with my arm wrapped around the girl, but I was leaning into her while talking, and this was brought to my attention by Kerr through a quick lean-back motion, and as soon as I had done this, the girl’s body language slightly changed from real positive to very positive, and I knew at this point that if I wanted, I could probably pull her that night!! All I could think was “thank God Kerr was there to catch such a simple yet critically serious mistake; it’s like the number one body language rule!” Eventually, we went to go check on her friends [who had since wandered their way back outside of the VIP area and wanted to get back in], but one of them wasn’t feeling too good, so we checked on her and then I decided to leave her there [non-neediness] and told her I was going to check on my friends and make sure they were all having a good time [protector of loved ones]. It would turn out later that the hot-ass Asian girl I’d been gaming was one of the dancers at the club!! Even Mystery was quite impressed with the ass on her when she was up on the mini-stage in her thong! Haa

Another interesting bit from this that it totally reinforced to me that a few instructors can handle 12 students – when I was reaching comfort with the Asian girl and looking around to make sure that there was an instructor watching so I could try to get feedback later, and [like I already mentioned], Matador was right there to create some jealousy with the pivot, then Kerr was there to remind me of one of the most important rules of body language, and even Mystery was sitting directly in front of me, just chilling and gaming this really cute Asian waitress while watching me game my Asian girl. Like I said, it did put at ease my worries about being watched and made it clear to me that obviously these guys were making sure to keep track of each student and to watch them in action.
Another high point for me was just chatting with Mystery about various things, the most important one being the game and just how deep and subconscious the whole thing is and all the different ways it manifests itself in everyday life. I already said this before, and it should be pretty apparent anyways, but this guy is just ridiculously sharp! I mean, he not only has figured out a girl’s innate hard-wiring, but he has explored things to such a deep level that he’s literally figured out social dynamics altogether!

Now, the single greatest event of the whole bootcamp: Matador making out with not just 1 or 2, not even just 10 or 12, but SIXTEEN DIFFERENT GIRLS!!!! Like, are you fucking kidding me?? I know you’ve got to be thinking that, because I was [and still am!], and I saw it all happen right in front of my eyes!! And these girls were fucking HOTTT!! I’m not going to sit here and describe each one of them, but the highlight of the highlight was when we had left the club and were all hanging out near the lobby, there was this 4set of girls who Mystery and Matador pulled into our group and began gaming, and within a few minutes, Matador was kissing one of them in front of another one, then he turned to her, said some random shit, and then kissed her, too [in front of the first girl]. A few minutes later, Matador made his way to the other 2 girls that Mystery was gaming, and they basically switched girls, and then Matador put on an encore presentation: in the same way as before, he was kissing the first girl within a few minutes, and then he proceeded to kiss the second girl while the first girl watched. To be honest, I couldn’t stop laughing: this had to be one of the most amazing things I have ever seen in my whole life, and definitely so when it comes to gaming girls. As it turns out, 3 of the 4 girls were taken [I think they were married, and 1 of them was a few weeks pregnant], and yet here was Matador literally making out with them in the middle of the hotel…unfuckingbelieveable!!! Later on, we were outside of the hotel just chilling, none of us really wanting to actually leave and go back [and thus ending our night], and as luck would have it, two of the girls came outside with some guy [as it turns out, the guy was the husband of the recently-pregnant girl]. When I realized this, I decided to send Matador over to get the one girl who was with her husband, and he was all about it. He went over, hugged her, and planted a long kiss on her cheek/lips..RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER FUCKING HUSBAND!!! It was priceless to see the expression on the guy’s face as some random dude comes up and starts kissing his wife – the guy got totally TOOLED! It was shocking to see a dude get AMOGGED so hard right in front of me, and it really helped me to see that most of the time, they can’t/don’t do shit..I mean, this was his fucking wife, and he just stood there [and by the end of that interaction, the four of them had walked into the lobby and were chatting it up, as though nothing out of the ordinary had just happened..unbelievable!]. Like I said, I could go on and on about this jaw-dropping feat of 16 make-outs in a span of only a few hours, but there’s no way I could possibly capture how ridiculously mind-blowing it was to witness all of this! The students and I were just standing there, amazed at how all this had just happened – it was simply an awesome display of ridiculous social authority; it was almost absurd how easily and naturally he had [and continued to] pull this dominance off all night long.

A little off-topic, but I caught up with Matador Monday night [after the premiere of “The Pickup Artist”], and I thought that was really cool of him, since he’s no longer obligated to do anything because the bootcamp is now over, and yet here he was, being all chill with me [like I mentioned earlier, treating me like an old friend]. He told me that he was feeling pretty good about the whole show and all, and off-handedly mentioned that he’d ended up pulling on that Sunday night [when I had to leave early to catch my flight]. A few days before this, I would’ve been a bit skeptical, but after having seen these guys [Mystery, Kerr, and especially Matador] in action that weekend, it would’ve been as difficult to believe that he hadn’t pulled!

Tips and Concluding Thoughts: So, the quick conclusion: I was very surprised and impressed at all of our improvements over the span of only a weekend. I’d figured that obviously there must be some strong results on the part of most of the students from the past since the reviews have been so favorable, but I was still pretty skeptical about how much insight we could possibly gain in a span of really only like 40 hours of combined total time. I think that we were lucky in our group because no one really needed to be pushed to approach [don’t get me wrong: many of us had approach anxiety, we just got over it because it was like “I don’t know any of these people in this club, I’ll never see them again if I mess up or embarrass myself, and I paid a butt-load of money to be here!”], so a number of us actually got to do much more on the 1st night than is usually expected. The only thing that I personally didn’t like about that was that I didn’t get to watch the instructors in all of the sets that they ran, but eh, what are you going to do [especially since it was my own fault for being late]? I feel that I got to watch them enough to learn from their example and behavior, the biggest thing being their BODY LANGUAGE…this is HUGE!
Another thing that struck me about this was that you really can open with whatever opener you want [Lovedrop had joked about this in Seminar portion and reminisced about this time in Australia that he’d opened a few sets discussing the fact that their currency has a picture of the queen on it, and the sets had still hooked], but I got a demonstration first-hand: on the 1st night, Matador was opening sets by literally yelling at a girl and telling her to come to him..and it worked like every single time! And he’d just take it from there [don’t get me wrong, sometimes the target would verbally be pushing him away, and yet she would never actually end the interaction by walking away or anything].

Some tips that I’d recommend to keep in mind that helped me out would be to definitely seek instructors out: remember, as cool as the instructors are, in the end, you’ve paid for them to be there and to basically have access to their knowledge and skill as well as experience, and so you have to be a true and almost greedy customer-type who’s trying to get all out his buck [ex: ask as many questions as you want, follow the instructors to watch them in action (since they are the professionals), find them to ask them for feedback/answers, have them break-down an instructor’s or another student’s set as it’s happening in front of you (i.e. what they’re doing right, what they’re doing wrong, what could be better, etc.), grab them to watch you in-field, etc].

Going with the same idea of being a very eager customer, be sure to make the most of the time that you have, since it’s only a single weekend. For example, as I mentioned before, I stayed out each night after we were officially done to watch the instructors doing their own thing because, the way I saw it, I did pay to be there, and so I should try to get the most out of it [they’re going to be doing their sets, anyway, so I might as well watch and learn (like Matador's "Alpha Caveman" thing - can't even describe how fucking cool yet easy it is!)!], especially since I hadn’t gotten to see them as much as I would’ve liked due to my late arrival.

Another tip that I found quite helpful was this: you go out and keep opening sets and running your material and, similar to a video game, you just start over with a new set if things don’t go too well, or even for the mere practice of it. Similar to this was the insight that some girls are just bitches, so they’re going to act like bitches..basically, not everyone goes out to meet new people or whatever, so some will be more hostile than others: the important thing is to NOT take this personally, as it is NOT a rejection of YOU as a person [since they don’t even know anything about you at this point in time] – it is a reactionary rejection based on all the thousands of times she has been approached throughout her lifetime. [A much-shortened story exemplifying this: Matador had been going on his streak, and the obstacle in one set (whose target he’d already made-out with) completely freaked on him! She started yelling at him to not touch her, and he continued being playful, but she just got more and more bitchy, and next thing we knew, she had her hand wrapped around his neck, trying to choke him!! Needless to say, Matador got into trouble (along with one of the students), and a side-note observation was seeing Matador bend and twist social interactions in order to ensure that he was treated fairly instead of the initial reaction of the security (typical sleazy drunken guy going too far with an innocent female), and of course seeing the video footage of their interaction helped to clear things up, too. Bottom line: the girl was non-social and just plain crazy].

 One thing that I found helpful in terms of the debrief was that I spent time after getting back to the hotel each night [after the Seminar portions, too, but especially after the In-Field portions] and reviewed my notes from earlier in the Seminar as well as applying them to my own thoughts and insights from the events of the night. I feel that this really helped to speed up my progress and to solidify all the concepts we had been learning throughout the weekend-long process. By the end of it, I felt as though I was seeing glimpses of things like the Matrix [the whole green numerical lines, etc]: in my own sets, I could see everything happening and knew why it was happening, what led up to it, and where things were going at that point; basically, the whole structure of the interactions was unfolding right before me, and I know that I owed this major amplification in such a short span of time to the instructors as well as the time and effort I had been putting in on my own [for example, the reviewing of my day-notes and the making of new night-notes]. Speaking of notes, make sure to take plenty of them! And also save them, because they make for a very good reference in the future [and they are, in the end, thousands of dollars worth of notes!].

All in all, over the span of one weekend, I was very thoroughly exposed to an in-depth and detailed psychological philosophy coupled with a simply incredible technology that breaks down social dynamics into such simple patterns that it was just outrageous, and it was simply an amazing experience…this is what makes Mystery’s method truly so amazing: it doesn’t matter what your natural style is, because as long as you are hitting the necessary Attraction Switches, the set is always on! I never knew that this type of skill that I had witnessed the instructors displaying [as well as experienced from my own application] could be learned or developed, much less in such a small amount of time. Hearing these guys talk and seeing them in action, I wasn’t sure how closely I could duplicate their results, but they certainly opened my eyes to what was possible with a sufficient amount of time and dedication to the art of attracting and seducing women.