PickUp 101 Workshop in DC - F*cking Incredible!

We just got back from our first DC workshop, and our DC champion, Jae, has some words to share with everyone about his experience. Instead of telling y'all what a kick-ass workshop it was (especially for my birthday on Friday), I'll let Jae tell you what it was really like.

- Sean Newman

Well we had the first ever DC Pickup 101 workshop going on here this past
weekend. It was fucking incredible.

I knew most of the guys in the workshop personally, from my regular crew,
and it just made a huge difference for us to go out and work on all this
stuff together. Even three guys I met back at the MM Chicago bootcamp.

The Pickup 101 guys were all amazing too, not just in the field but also just
as chill people.

There were a lot of things I worked on this past weekend during the
workshop, but one of the more fun things I did was peacocking bigtime. I
pulled off the same outfit on Saturday that I used the weekend before, when
I was with the two girls. Except this time there were no women with me to
protect me from negative social pressure, so I had to handle it on my own.

And I did. FRAME CONTROL, just being fucking cool and working the room,
regardless of social pressure. Lots of short sets.

I got opened, CONSTANTLY. This one guy tried to make fun of me a bit and I
just walked over and was cool as hell and became friends with him and his
boy in like 15 seconds, so he's trying to buy me a drink when this random
girl walks over and grabs me by my jacket to –drag– me to the dance floor.
She's all squeeling "you have to dance with me, it's my birthday!".

Yes ma'am

So a little bit later I'm walking around a bit just bantering with random
folk and my coach, Dan M., is walking up towards me and starts to say whats
up when all of a sudden this girl in front of me screams and grabs my fro
and drags my face into her chest. The last thing I heard before my world
consisted of this girl's hair and neck and boobs and face was "I fucking
hate you man" all sarcastic-like as Dan walked away to find the other
students. I love that guy.

This kind of shit happened repeatedly.

I was consistantly getting attraction immediately. There were no DHV
routines at all. None. Peacocking + bodylanguage + banter and I either had
attraction before I got opened (it was hard for me to actually open anyone
before they opened me) or within 30 seconds of bantering.

So I'd do some rapport/comfort type talk with the girls, but it was all
sexually charged. Or I'd just keep bantering cause it's fun

One of the biggest breakthroughs I had was in dealing with the other guys.
They were not my enemies, as they had been previous to this weekend, but
rather allies. I never really got that before. I just became the most fun
guy in the room and made friends with everyone and it was gravy. I was
pulling girls out of sets where the rest were all guys too, and that was
something new for me this past weekend. I'd done plenty of mixed sets
before, but not only-one-girl-in-the-set sets. So now I've done several of
those.

Well anyway, I have officially stopped counting sets now. I'm over 500 sets
since I started back in January with good ole' David D. Some people would
call that slow going for almost a year, but hey:

1) I've gotten results.

2) I don't really care about "sets" anymore. My new frame is opening
"rooms".

Want to see the results? Check the PickUp 101 Photos page at Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/pickup101/pool/

If you want to be a champion like Jae and bring PickUp 101 to your town for a "f*cking incredible" weekend, send an email to champion@pickup101.com and check out our PickUp 101 Army board at http://pickup101.com/forum/profile.php?mode=register to get started today!