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Hi all, I have taken a day game bootcamp (the normal workshop of 2 days versus the longer day game bootcamp I took) with Mike Smooth in September. Back then, Mike told me it would be nice to write a review about it so here I am.
Before this day game bootcamp, I had no experience about picking-up and no idea about what the game was. Picking-up is just something that was not part of my life, and I did not know the whole culture behind this. However, as I was in San Francisco for the summer, I started hanging out with different people who were very good at picking-up hot girls almost all nights. I then tried myself and eventually failed. At this point, I thought it would be nice to have some advise, so I booked a one-on-one with Mike Smooth. But to be honest, I was more than skeptical when I started.
The day game bootcamp toke place over four days. The first day, Mike went through some very basics of the ABC method (I did not know what it was) and we started approaching using indirect openers. This was more like a warm-up as I had never approached any girl in the street during the day. The emphasis was on phases A and B, so we made up a story and I used it in the B phase after a canned opener. What I liked is that Mike used the spare time between sets to practice improvisation, which kept me in the right mindset to open. The key point on this first day was really to make me relax and adopt a playful attitude.
The second day, we went over the C and D phase and opened accordingly, trying this time to number close. Mike pushed me to stay in sets as I tended to extract very quickly after a first negative reaction, and I finally number close with a two-set. What I really learnt this day is the whole concept of dominance, which was not something familiar to me and the reason why I got stuck in the friend-zone. It is also about removing approval-seeking behavior. I was trying to get some reinsurance because I was afraid of failure, and it made me appear less dominant.
The third and fourth day, we learnt direct opening and worked on qualifying/disqualifying. We opened some sets and I finally got number close with a cute girl in a park. Direct opener was great because it really gave me this extra-shot of dominance to kick off the conversation and being confident. Mike also pointed out some details, like using a direct and frontal approach so you stop the girl. One was also very scared when I opened, so I extracted. Mike told me to keep going and be really warm, and it worked with the next one.
This is a short review as I plan to post FR separately, but globally I was really satisfied with my day game bootcamp. I just wish I had taken it before. I got invaluable advise and it really changed my view of relationship between men and women.
Thanks Mike, and see you soon in San Francisco! I'll be back as soon as I can, the weather is definitively too cold in London.
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