Gave me confidence – Ali, 25

Craig gave me the confidence that i didn’t think I had- Ali, 25

I rolled with Craig a couple of weekends ago for one of his evening bootcamps, this is my review!

Background

I am new to game, I would consider myself a normal guy who just says hi to girls in clubs, its pretty hit or miss, some times I would go out and pull a fitty, most times a fatty or sometimes not at all. A mate gave me his copy of the game and I must say that I read it in like a week, and got quite into it. I was always intrigued to see whether these so called PUAs were all what they said they were, however spending thousands of pounds on a bootcamp I was not going to find out. I had always wanted to do a bootcamp, just didn’t want to pay a lot for it, especially the first one! I had heard of people going on bootcamps and the instructors not even opening sets, if i went on a bootcamp my first revelation would be, can these guys actually do what i read?
I had heard of Craig R beforehand through another website and so was familiar with his style from his blog. I had learnt the Mystery Method, and had been relying on indirect opinion openers, lines that I felt did not really work for me. I felt that a direct approach complimented my natural approach and so got in contact to see what it was and decided to give it a shot.

The bootcamp

The bootcamp was for 5 hours on a Saturday. I went out a bit earlier in the day to warm up and practice opening, so I would be ready for the start. At 4pm i met  up with Craig we sat down for a good amount of time to discuss my game, my feelings towards pick up, what methods worked for me, and what honest type of girls that I would want to get from sarging. Craig told me about his philosophies,  focusing mainly on two elements; body language and tonality, his routines, etc and after chatting for abit, I felt more comfortable about going out an opening some sets.

Going into the field I started to get a lot of AA, more so than usual, I think that you may get some AA normally, but for just some reason I had more than usual that day! Craig did some demos to show me what he had been talking about earlier, and instantly opened a two set of blond Swedish tourists when coming out of the tube station. This guy can open anything, he has zero AA. one was a solid 8.5 and pretty much after like 5 minutes he had them eating out of his hand. We then went to grab a coffee, when we were sitting down he opened two polish girls who were walking in the road, i was amazed how he got them to come off the payment , come over to us and then number close the hottest one right in front of her friend. I couldn’t believe that you could be that direct with a hot girl, but she loved it, and after I saw him close another girl I wanted to try that for myself!

We then moved over to the South Bank where we met  another trainer Yad, who was just finishing up on a date. I had heard a lot about Yad, and had heard that he was not the best looking guy in the world, however I could not believe it when I turned up and I saw him with a real stunning blonde with massive tits. I go to the gym on a regular basis and feel that I have a good body, but I just could nt believe that Yad, who had a beard and a bit of a belly could be out with such a stunner. Following this the three of us went around the streets, they worked hard on trying to improve my conversations in sets along with my body language, and it definitely helped having two instructors there , as one was able to point out what the other was saying/doing in sets.  Both of them made me practice opening on them so to reduce my AA and focus on what my body language and hands were doing when I was opening the sets. I felt a bit of an idiot doing this, as you feel stupid opening a guy infront of other people, but it did help. After a while I was able to open by myself, maybe not to a good level, but I could definitely feel that I was improving, and as the day went on I felt that girls we spending longer and longer with me in sets, and my urge to bail out was diminishing (bailing out of sets too early has always been a major problem for me!)

Then we started approaching girls in central around Trafalgar Square. The change was immense. I was approaching girls and getting them to stop on the street and I was getting much better responses, even if I did have to pushed a few occasions into sets. There was no way that I could have done this on the street before. i loved the fact that we were just running around opening girls, it was really fun and a really good work out. I opened two stunning German who were up in London for the weekend, they even invited me out for a drink, but I stupidly turned them down, which i am now regretting.  I opened a two set who were walking outside McDonalds in Leicester Square, i would have been petrified opening a moving target on the street before, but i was amazed when they stopped to talk, after a while Craig came in to wing for me, and i managed to get her number, i was really amazed.

Conclusion

I was impressed by the teaching styles of Craig and the professionalism of the whole day  and I realized just how many hours I have been wasting with my previous indirect approach. I am definitely booking myself in for another session as their prices are very reasonable for what you get from the session. They have a lot of knowledge and are really good at breaking it all down into manageable pieces, but above all they are two good blokes who you could definitely hang out with even if you weren’t doing pick up.