(Originally posted on Fastseduction.com at this link
http://www.fastseduction.com/masf/114/257910/)
I wanted to put my two cents in about my experiences at PU101.
So I have been working with these guys for the last two months. I cannot even begin to tell you the difference this has made in my life. I have been lurking on these forums since the beginning on 2005. Like most people I was introduced into this community through the DYD material. Heard about RSD through the DYD interview series and discovered MASF. Anyways, it was obvious to me that reading is not what will get you results. In that time I was really trying to decide which program to invest in. Too be honest, most workshops have mixed reviews. I have heard many great and bad things about RSD and Mystery from students and through reviews. I had only read a few reviews of the PU101 since there aren’t as many reviews, but I hadn’t read anything bad either. Also, they were cheaper and closer to me…SF Bay Area. I signed up in April, but due to scheduling and life I wasn’t able to take anything until the end of July. I have now completed the Art of Attraction Course and their Art of Rapport/Day Game Class.
I have absolutely no negative feedback.
Yeah, thats right..none. If I were you; I would be super skeptical of that comment. How is that possible? Even at the best there should be constructive criticism. I will get to that, but in no way should this be taken as a negative feedback.
First off, from a business/customer service perspective I feel that they have a really solid program together. They spend a lot of time changing the class based on lengthy fe
edback that they get from their students. This is everything from what students find to be the most valuable topics/exercises to scheduling enough breaks (but not too many), to tweaking the overall style of teaching. The feedback that they request is very exhausting on the students. If anything I would appreciate them cutting that out, but I also understand their workshops are excellent because of that feedback. On top of that I felt that the instructors were as accommodating as possible. The isn’t a customer service oriented industry, but it should be and these guys are changing that.
Second, because of this first point I believe they have found the most effective way to communicate their information and actually make lasting changes on the students. Intellectual learning is great. Lectures where this stuff is explained can really bring you to new levels of understanding. The thing is, despite all of the knowledge in your head, I don’t believe that translates to actual skills. It’s like understanding the mechanics of a golf swing. You could learn the physiology, timing, and movements and really comprehend what it takes to swing a golf club, but it will not translate into actually being able to swing a golf club as well as you might think. You might even be able to help other people fix their swing, but knowing how to swing a golf club and actually finding your natural rhythm is radically different. PU101 really sets themselves apart with the amount of exercises. I’m sure many of you have heard that communication is 93+% non-verbal so that only 7% of your communication is the actual words that come out of your mouth. Much more of your communication has to do with your body language, tonality, voice inflection, and facial expressions. I think that this is really overlooked in this community based on what I have read on these forums. PU101 spends more time teaching the non-verbal and actually practicing this. Like with the golf swing, this is learned overtime through repetition. This is HUGE. This is one of those concepts that you may not even truly understand until you see it done. Luckily, I had the opportunity to see this in action before signing up. It was blatantly obvious to me that this was a huge piece in the communication. Anyone who has seen Sensei demonstrate this will immediately pick up on what I am talking about.
The other great part to this is the simplified structure. PU101 will build you a custom routine stack. The really believe that you have attractive qualities about you and that you should communicate those, instead of someone else’s. This makes the stack SUPER congruent. They give you something to say that works with who you are so that you can focus on the more important NON-VERBAL parts of the interaction. What really attracted me to the PU101 structure is how organic and natural it is. Once you learn to use your body language, tonality, vocal inflection and facial expressions to communicate, you really don’t need your stack. This is because they are actually training wheels to changing yourself. Once you become natural at using these other forms of communication, you will quickly realize what you say isn’t really that important. Although I have routines that I can fallback on, I can apply what I have learned into a completely natural conversation. A lot of people who use direct game really enjoy that aspect to it, because you can be very natural in direct game. PU101 teaches you how to naturally use indirect game. I don’t know of any workshops that are teaching that.
The last part that I want to address is the follow up. PU101 realizes that they have a great workshop. They also realize that despite a great workshop, you can still fall back into your old ways. You can make all kinds of progress at a workshop over the weekend, but if you do not keep the momentum, then you will really revert back. PU101 has really been focusing on building momentum for their students because that is how people really change. PU101 really has put a lot of effort to running a solid business and this follow through with building the momentum with the students is probably the most significant part. I have literally been working almost weekly for the last two months with them.
I started with the Art of Attraction workshop. After I went out twice a week practicing my skills on friday and saturday nights. Every week, I had a group phone call with Sensei to address sticking points with the guys from my class. We each got individual feedback and questions answered. After two months, I then took the Art of Rapport workshop. This has all contributed to building momentum in my game.
Art of Rapport was exactly what I needed after two months of practicing pure attraction. Having just finished this class, I am still on that post workshop high. I have been very consistently practicing my attraction skills. I think that I have a very solid attraction game, but what I realized is that is only half of the equation. Attraction is very powerful, yet fleeting. It works similarly for women as it does for men. When a hot woman is standing in front of you, you get that visceral feeling of attraction. When she leaves that visceral feeling leaves as well. You might have a memory of how you felt, but it is not lasting especially when another hot women is standing in front of you. When you’re right in front of a girl being the attractive guy, you give them the same feeling, but as soon as you’re gone, the feeling leaves. The might remember it for awhile, but it will not stick. This is where gaining rapport is extremely important. The instructors went into depth on how to gain wide and deep rapport. The first day was all about going into rapport. They helped us develop deep rapport stories that made each of us vulnerable. They also had exercises for transitioning from attraction to rapport which isn’t always the easiest thing to do. The second day centered around daygame using the indirect approach. This ties in with the first day because merely approaching a lot of times is enough to get attraction and then your only job is to shift into rapport. The second day we learned the direct approach. Then once again we went out and did day time sets using both direct and indirect.
The last part of this is the quality of the instructors. My experience is that the instructors are not there to show off, but to help you out. Whatever skill level you come in at; they know what you need to do to get past your sticking point. If you have approach anxiety, they realize tooling you and making you feel lame isn’t an effective way to get you past that. There aren’t any egos in this group, but everyone has mad skills. I also think a lot of students relate to the instructors because they are normal guys, with normal lives, that happen to have exceptional love lives. I have seen quite a few PUA’s (instructors included) in the field and I still have to say that Sensei is the most impressive. I think PU101 has been a little secret because they don’t have the same notoriety as RSD, MM, Fidentia, or Badboy and people figure they’re just an offshoot of MM. I think this has been the most powerful workshop I have heard about. If you make a commitment, you will get the results you’re looking for relatively quickly.
NO, I do not work for them nor am I being paid for this review. HA! I just had an awesome experience with these guys and wanted to share it with this group since I spent so much time reading reviews before I decided on a workshop. I wanted to contribute to the group my take on it. Later.
Joe
